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welcome back to pax 2017 and I am at the Linksys booth and this is very interesting because they're making a gaming router and now before you think Oh gaming it's coming in its you overused term they're actually going to Vince which is nice to meet you he's gonna explain the science behind this routers he's built it from the ground up so this thing is geared towards gamers and he's gonna explain a bit of the science behind this rally what we wanted to do is build a true gaming router and that's what we've done here with the double RT 32x and you know what we found out when I started to do the research when you build a product that's the first thing you do there are others were out there that they were called so called gaming routers but when you really look under the hood you found out they were using the same networking stack that they're using in the consumer products and maybe they were just putting some color antennas on it maybe with some RGB LEDs and then shipping out and saying here's your gaming router Linksys is being a technology driven company we really couldn't do that we we're gonna build a gaming router we're gonna really build a gaming router that really solves those problems with the online gaming community so now with this I basically built up with having the killer software implemented into the router itself in the firmware right so with that you're basically eliminating a lag especially lag that comes from a congested network right so if someone's at home and they want to play games with other people in the home are using the network this thing will help give a better experience with online gaming right absolutely and can what we're doing is working with the guys over at killer networking that are doing the amazing things in a number of the gaming pcs from Alienware razer gigabyte and and lenovo and msi and they're doing amazing things inside those boxes but what was happening in the past is that once it came out and there's others on the network that would impact that gameplay and you know the number one thing we did and found out on a research is that when they're ready to go do their online game play and then others jumped on the network - pink times within go crazy and that and then you'd have to run through the house and say everybody get off the network and so that was like the biggest issue we found it so that was what the main mission was and building this thing is building a router that can maintain low ping times and still no matter what it's happening on that network so other you know girlfriend boyfriend roommate family jumps on the networks and starts doing their media streaming it will not impact your online gameplay and so you're not know you know creating issues with other guys in your squad no matter where they're playing in the rest of the world so again even in using that the killer prioritization engine that we developed with the killer of networking guys we've built a custom firmware stack that basic was the vessel for this killer partition engine to be able to manage the bandwidth contention in the home awesome so basically I've tested this in the past as well the killer network is legit it does work especially with congested networks now also that's not the only good thing about this router right it's got the signal strength you're telling me that it's really good with the five gigahertz signal and the two point four now what speeds what's the max speeds on the five gigahertz line this router actually has the fastest five gigahertz band in the market we're using a enterprise-grade Marvell chipsets in here and they're the only ones that are actually doing a three stream radios that are running in a 160 megahertz so we're able to pump 2.6 gigabits per second out of that five gigahertz on so again amazing Wi-Fi and in why that's important for for gamers is that we're seeing you know console is predominantly hooked up through Wi-Fi but where we're really seeing a lot of the online gaming growth is in mobile and that's where it really is important for a really good Wi-Fi signal and now you're also seeing now mobile becoming in the competitive sense so there's this competitive mobile gaming so that's even more importantly but also again wired is also handled because it doesn't matter Wi-Fi or wired that killer partition engine works on both sides so you don't have to say oh you have to plug the gaming PC in this particular port it happens no matter how you need to hit that hit that router with it and switch chipset in here again is a discrete switch chipset that is a piece of got our higher end enterprise grade switch line so that just so happens our enterprise grade switches are powering packs is open to play and BYOC area downstairs right now and in Seattle's packs event our enterprise rates which line driving of 450 endpoints in the open to play area and another 350 over on the BYOC area so Linksys is one of the few companies that actually can scale from full-blown tournament and uber land party situations all the way down to taking a piece of that enterprise great technology home for use to make sure that your home networking is great when you're doing your online gameplay well there you heard of guys so this thing is not just built up with gaming uses a term it's actually got really good hard way to match instead of dropping RGB lights on this thing and putting fancy colors they're going with the hardware and that's what a lot of you guys out there want when it comes to actually buying a product that's suited is especially in this case towards gaming so now also some other features with this router is that it's got a very long signal length to you were telling me before in your house one router in a three story home in the middle your house signals five bars to all devices in your house again I'm getting that pole home a coverage with this guy in here a beacon because we're using a three by three setup but we're using four radios so we're able to do a diversity and their be able to have that beamforming really kicking and making sure that signal is getting everywhere you need it awesome so now also on this router there's USB three as well connectivity as well so if you need to use that for transferring you can use that and there's also a solder as well so great connectivity on this router and how much are we looking at price-wise in Australia terms and also USD terms as well in the US its sewing for 299 and in Australia we're selling for I think 449 Australian so there these guys the WR to 32x gaming router this is the launch event here at PAX you can pick it up on the shelves if you're at the PAX event of course it'll be in stores as well from your local retailer and you're just looking forward to getting one of these things in my own home and testing it out and seeing just how good it is because I definitely will need a wireless router in my home because I've recently got these tp-link things but you guys were telling me that the whole bad yeah the reaction was bad so I look forward to also seeing you guys in another tech video very soon as well if you have any comments about the wrt 32x then be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and I am Not sure Vince will be reading the comment session as well be sure to answer your comments as soon as we can anyway thanks for coming up Vince today and then talking into us about this great new router and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye