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so a couple of months ago I installed the type N from d-link and that was a main VDSL router and modem all-in-one solution that we put in the second floor where I'm currently living and although it is a nice modem it doesn't have the reach for the wireless so on each of the floors I didn't want to install different wireless solutions now you guys out in the audience when I had the tp-link dekho come through you guys said that was absolute garbage so I decided to play some lawn balls with it and they did actually pretty well for that so when Roose reached out to me and asked me to take a look at their AC 5300 and also the AC 88 you I said sure thing because I was looking for a solution downstairs that would provide Wireless here in the studio that would also be strong and also give me a lot of options and also extra ports that I could use to replace the current d-link switch that I'm using where I only use up to eight ports of that switch anyway so it does have a lot of extra ports and it does have P OE and there are some benefits to that dealing switch that I have down here however really when it comes down to it I only need something like the 88 you with Wireless until I'm ready to upgrade to 10 gig which is a massive upgrade in itself anyway here on the desk we have two routers one being the RT AC 5300 which is an 8 antenna tribe and a 4 port router and also their AC ad au which is 8 ports however it's only a dual band with four antennas now the antennas don't make too much of a difference in the wireless signal strength but what these two modems do offer over the Taipan is indeed a greater reach so the marketing on the box says it does have great coverage and when I tested it downstairs which has to go through a lot of concrete from where it's originally at the signal was indeed strong girls getting two bars consistently in all areas of the studio as opposed to the Taipan which was sometimes dropping out which I can't have if I need to upload certain things from my smartphone for instance and also on the note of wireless the 5300 megabits per second is the max theoretical speed if you combined the three bands together the two five gigahertz bands and also the two point forty yards band and you have a device that has three wireless connections that can bridge together not many devices can do this hence why I'm actually picking for me personally the ad au which has a 5 gigahertz band and also a 2.4 gigahertz band now the pricing of these units is a little bit expensive in Australia 399 for the ad au 485 AUD for the 5300 if you're in the u.s. it is a lot better price 240 US dollars for the 88 you and also 300 USD flat for the 5300 so I would like to see a Zeus fix the pricing for Aussies and also another note for Aussies is that this doesn't have a VDSL modem built in unlike the type end that didn't have the modem built in so if the Zeus did want to have a big winner on their hands in Australia I'd recommend them getting the VDSL switch put in place too but with those negatives out the way let's find out what makes these routers in my opinion some of the best out there welcome back to tech yes it is brian coming to you guys today with a review of these two routers now the first thing i'm going to get out of the way with I'm picking the 88 you over the 5300 and the reason I'm doing this is twofold actually the first thing is I like the clean look of the 88 you it's got four antennas it doesn't look too outlandish in my opinion and the second reason is it's got eight ports onboard now in the studio down here I have my own network installed in the behind the walls and so I do need eight ports over four ports on the 5300 now there is a version of the 5300 that does have 8 ports as well but even for my purposes it's still a little bit of overkill I only need the dual band down here because it's one studio and the wireless coverage in the studio from the 88u is phenomenal I get really fast link speeds of course the 5300 is similar but you do get that extra band so if you don't need the extra ports from the 88 you and you want that extra Wireless range in coverage it is a little bit stronger then this may be for you of course the aesthetic as I said before it is hit or miss for me I did prefer the 88 you but now back onto what makes these routers actually quite special and that's when you go into the user interface now you can log in through the details which are printed on the modem itself you can then easily set up your own username and password and there's also many different things you can do on here but also the fact that it's so simple and easy to learn you've got all the options you need the first thing I'm going to say is the QoS or the packet scheduling software included is phenomenal you can throttle people individual computers that are attached to this router in other words you can limit the bandwidth so if you've got someone in your family who's downloading all the time and you just want to watch Netflix you can say pick their computer up and say hey we've got 100 megabits per second download how about I give you 50 and leave 50 free for everyone else on the network you can also do this for upload speeds if you're streaming this was a graph that I actually had with the Taipan from d-link the QoS was very simplistic it only prioritized certain kinds of packets these lease routers here they can also do that they can practice streaming packets or if you're a gamer they can prioritize the gaming packets and hence why the gaming is printed on the box they've also what the fast printed on the box as well now for certain games there's a lot of different service throughout the world so if you have a username and password then you can have what the fast manage from both these routers if you wish to I think that was a good thing for World of Warcraft though I haven't played World of Warcraft for quite some time now they're moving on with this router they've also got what they call a eye protection which will filter out malicious packets I don't really want to test this as I usually don't do anything dodgy anyway on my computer though if you're one of those persons or you have someone in your family that's prone to clicking on exe files and emails then you may wish to turn this on there's also the guest network services as well so if you want to use this at a hotel you can give people a different network and make it more simplistic if you wish to you can also filter out certain websites and also if you're a parent you can filter out what your kids watch so there is parental mode which will work quite well if you want to stop your kids from watching porn for example but I don't know if that's a good thing you don't know what else they would get up to then anyway getting back to the review it's got 128-bit encryption you've also go to USB 3 and 2 ports which can share your printer over the network or if you want to attach an external hard drive you can share that external hard drive over the network to essentially making it a very easy nice solution if you wish to and some last-minute touches with this device is also the ability to login to the a iCloud 2.0 and on the back of the box they've got what they call zombie protections so and I will say before I get on out of here as well in this modem itself there's just a huge amount of features and options that are way too complex for me to it is literally one of the best you eyes that I've seen on a router to date so Zeus definitely not their doing I thought with them being a mother board company that makes monitors they wouldn't be that well versed in routers but sure enough they're making an exceptional product here that does deliver on a lot of the promises that they say on the box except for the zombie thing I'm maybe who knows if there's some zombies around at the Gold Coast let me know and we can test out this zombie protection service here anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's review of the ACA d8u and also the AC 5300 as I said before even though this one's more expensive I'm not picking it over the AC 88u as that does everything I needed to I like the look better and it's got those eight ports which I desperately need down in the studio here though I would like to see something like this come out with a few 10 gig ports on board I think that would be perfect for someone like me at least in a studio where I do have or I do plan to get a lot of 10 gig switches installed just to make a lightning-fast Network and I'm sure as usar definitely capable of it another thing as well if you're in Australia it doesn't have the VDSL modem support built-in so you will have to connect the modem to this router and then you can use the features from this router however once you do that it will give you a really good experience anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's review if you did them sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below if there's anything else you wish to know about these routers and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye which will work quite well if you want to stop your kids from watching porn for example don't stop I'm watching porn it's probably better than they do that it will give you a little bit better wireless coverage throughout your higher hop and then a Zeus rip it is an eighth band naughty bad and also on the note of the wireless and the fancy numbers