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okay in the front of this stack I have the trendnet TW 684 you be this is a 450 megabit dual-band wireless-n USB adapter ok this was released around the same time as the trendnet TW 691 dr now this is a 450 megabit wireless-n gigabit router however what you may notice about these two products is that this one is actually capable of higher speeds than this one and these were we're sold as like like a matched pair you can see it'll probably recommend no it doesn't ok well whatever trendnet pitched it as those should work together pretty well which they will they will run at 450 megabit per second which at the time was not available from any other manufacturer however trendnet has recently released an updated dual-band 450 megabit per second concurrent wireless and router this is the TW 692 gr and you can see that these guys actually have matching charts whereas the 691 that chart ends at 450 megabit per second so here you can see for 50 megabits per second dual band is even better than 450 megabit per second which is even better than 300 megabit per second dual band which is better than and so on and so on and so forth so today's unboxing is going to be for the truly matching router for that wireless adapter which provides up to do once he gets the plastic off then he will talk about the product there we go all right up to 900 megabit per second of total wireless throughput concurrent dual band technology generates two separate 450 megabit per second wireless and networks at the same time one touch network connection with Wi-Fi Protected setup all gigabit wired ports which is an essential feature for any of these 300 megabit plus wireless routers in my opinion because otherwise you're just going to be bottlenecked by the wired ports anyway alright green net technology lowers energy consumption by seventy percent remember green net tech green net net to technology turns off certain ports powers things down allows your router to be less power consuming than other routers advanced wireless encryption up to wpa2 radius now it's firewall protection internet access control of mac and URL filtering and ease of use with an easy web browser configuration remote management and support a universal plug in play personally I love universal plug in play some people say it's for newbs I say fine then I'm a noob because I like it all right here we go dual-band wireless-n USB adapter something something here it is oh no that's the wireless end gaming adapter there's the wireless n USB adapter and here is the router and here is how they envision your network to pretty much work cool beans okay what else we got here that's it let's open it up let's do the unboxing part that's right in the title of this video 692 gr unboxing so far I have unboxed nothing here we go so there's a quick installation guide which is in USA in Britain language or also known as English before you start hardware installation and how to configure the wireless router we have a disc which has a user's guide on it so maybe don't throw that away might be useful next we have a power adapter fairly small wall wart made by best tech it's the best it's tech plugs into your router makes it go makes the little turbines inside spin next we have the wireless routers no we don't okay next we have an ethernet cable it's blue has plugs on the end finally we have a mounting bracket which I will take out because we might show you how to use that if I can figure it out on camera and I'm going to take off the plastic which will reveal the incredibly shiny line is yeah i'm not going to show you the cameraman in the reflective surface sorry guys yes it is the true cameraman helping me today the cameraman the apple enthusiast not not Darth Vader not crazy Russian none of the others okay so let's have a look at the router itself this one features a green net badge on it which the 691 gr does not have it also features a dual band for 50 megabit per second logo on it you've got the trendnet branding here on the top you've got the WPS button this is very conveniently located you know what I'm kind of getting tired of seeing WPS buttons that are like on the back of the router or like on the side or on the bottom or wherever they end up being this is convenient right on the top very nice kudos trendnet all right we have a power we have Oh interesting they're using an internet explorer logo for the LAN port okay so then you got your for land indicators your wireless indicators and your WPS LED indicator you've got a reset switch here on the side as well as some ventilation holes there's a fair amount of performance in a device like this so those ventilation holes are probably needed you got some more ventilation holes as well as the antennas on the other side of the devices is a fairly unconventional layout usually on a router you see kind of nothing lights nothing and then ports and and a debt and net antennas and reset switches and everything on the back but on this one instead we've only got the ports on the back so these are all gigabit network ports there's your LAN port and there is your power input on the back of the unit itself now it has on the bottom not a whole lot going on and I want you guys to note that it does have three dedicated antennas and these cannot be removed so these are built in antenna so I will be doing some testing on the 69 2gr against its little brother the 69 1gr with the the sky ah the concurrent and USB adapter so stay tuned for that on my NCIX comm channel don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from on boxing's reviews and other computer videos cameraman figured out how the mount worked so basically all you do is you take the router and you put it on there yeah it's actually that uncomplicated so what that means is and this is actually smarter than it first appears because ok for one thing it just plugs into your ventilation holes at the bottom you can still access your reset switch they did think of that and for another thing look at what this does so it puts it up this way so you can see your indicator lights from the front still it takes all of your antennas and puts them up higher which seems like logically intuitively might be better right and then last but not least it still leaves all of your ports at the back see smart