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Zyxel NBG4615 Wireless N Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2011-08-13
today I have a router to unbox this is a cycle Wireless end router it is the nbg forty six one five and one of the things that's actually really cool about it right off the bat is the fact that it includes not one but two built-in USB ports so with that in mind let's go ahead and do the unboxing portion of this video right away so that I can show you the product itself because that is important showing you the product because if I didn't unboxing or I don't show you the product it would be over right about now first of all we have a warranty card thank you for purchasing and our warranty is oh whoa it opens up that helps a lot ok so it looks like it is I don't know how long it is ok either way you can fill it out with your model number and serial number ending of searches purchase okay we have a Quick Start Guide although you're probably not going to use this too much because it does include besides the expert configuration mode also an easy configuration mode so that should help for the non-technical zli savvy customers to get this baby set up you also have support for a WPS so that's where you just press the button on the router press the button on the adapter and the secure connection is done automatically we have a utility users guide Quick Start Guide Acrobat Reader and product registration discs actually there's some useful stuff on there you might not want to throw that disc away just yet we have the router itself which is fairly small this I like to see I'm kind of it's getting tiresome seeing like huge routers that are like trying to be a fashion statement so this is just a plain mossy white finish on the top of the router itself and then you have LEDs indicating all the different stuff that it does so you got your power LED you've got your for land LEDs your one.when LED your wireless LED and then LEDs for the two USB ports you know a lot more on the router in a moment let's show you all the other things it comes with next we have a power adapter which looks like that we have an Ethernet cable which is yellow see that's just a little bit different no I think this one comes with a yellow Ethernet cable everyone else comes with a blue or a black Ethernet cable will these got gonna break the mold yellow Ethernet cable also instead of being a lame three-foot Ethernet cable that some of the some routers come with this is actually a six-foot cable so there you have it bull plated connectors - all right next we have two antennas not one but two I'm not gonna try and get those how's the packaging right now I will go like this okay and then finally we have the router itself so let's show you the overall physical layout of the nbg 46:15 so on the sides you see we have our two USB ports so that's actually I mean okay yes they call it out on the front of the box and you know USB port but that's actually a really cool feature because not only can you use it to access your printer over the network you can also plug in a mass storage device such as a USB Drive or an external hard drive at the same time so I haven't actually seen any other consumer router in this kind of a price point range that does offer that feature what else do they have to say for themselves here Wi-Fi compliant with the 802 N and backwards compatible with B and G hey then I got something to do with the name of the router the nbg okay next we have wireless scheduling for energy saving well that's actually kind of cool - my rotor at home doesn't have that so you can turn off the I mean that's never mind energy saving I mean yeah it's good for energy saving too but you can turn off the antenna during hours of the day when you don't want it on like at night for example next we've got Wi-Fi Protected setup talked about that already six level neighbor friendly Wireless output power control that's actually cool - so that's a way that you can actually adjust the signal strength of the wireless and well not the antenna but the actual router itself in order to keep it from being too accessible so if you live in an apartment or a condo for example you can turn it down in six different incremental steps to a level that allows access throughout your entire living space but doesn't necessarily punch through two sets of walls and go to the people to condos over who managed to guess that your wireless password was your pet's name okay next and can enhance security with WEP WPA w8 PA - and a firewall that's all pretty much standard fare and let me see what else they have to say about this particular guy right here I think that's pretty much it oh it has a game engine feature evidently okay so you can turn that on to optimize it for games you can easily prioritize your network traffic with quality of service so you can set different things to lower or higher priorities so for example if your house is not run by me the gaming thing might be at the bottom but if it is run by me that might be at the top in order to maximize your well not maximize your pings minimize your pings maximize your gaming experience on the back of the unit itself we have our two antenna ports our convenient on/off physical switch for the wireless network we have our WPS button as well as a reset button recessed into a little port down there use a needle get at that okay we have four LAN ports and we have one one port our DC power in as well as a complete on/off switch for the router unit itself and finally another antenna port so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the nbg 46 1 5 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos these are gigabit ports Wow this is actually a tremendous value for the price point that it's at gigabit ethernet ports Wireless and there you have it now I'm actually done
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