- Everyone loves Wifi, right?
Use it on your phone, your laptop
your whatever thing that uses Wifi.
Well what if I told you you could make it better?
MSI sponsored this video to show
off their RadiX AXE6600 that could do just that.
It's got Wifi 6E, it's got pretty lights
and best of all you can check out their virtual launch event
at the link down in the description.
But let's unbox it
cause that's what you're really here for.
It's got cool stuff on the outside.
I'm not really sure what Meta ready means
but I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg is a big fan.
Just on the outside of the box
because this is Wifi 6E supported
you're gonna have 2.4G 5G and 6G.
Which you know, this is actually not a terrible analogy
for kind of how it works.
2.4Gs like the single lane road,
the 5Gs like the two lane road,
6Gs like look at all these lanes.
This is an American highway damn it.
Oh are they pre-attached?
That's kind of cool.
A lot of the times when you get routers
like this you have a a big bundle of antennas
you have to put on yourself
but this one, pre-attached.
Look at that.
Got an ethernet cable.
It's important.
And a power brick.
On the outside the MSI logo feels like a button
its definitely a button.
I don't think it would be a power button
cause this is like a Wifi router.
You don't really want it to be off.
I suspect that this is probably
for switching the quality of service mode.
We've got our six antennas.
Each of these, you see how there's
like a little translucent part
there's RGB in here.
And the color changes according
to what your quality of service profile is.
You got red for gaming, purple for streaming
dark blue for work from home
and then the kind of cyan light blue is AI auto mode.
You can think of QoS or quality of service
kind of like an HOV lane on the highway
except not everyone gets to go in.
You pick whatever your most important traffic is.
So I imagine gaming
it's gonna prioritize game related traffic
streaming is gonna prioritize
your connection to Twitch or YouTube.
Work from home.
Not really sure on that one but I'm sure it's something.
Basically think of it like an HOV lane where that traffic
let's say our game packets get prioritized.
They get access to go through
before any of the other traffic on your network.
If you're in a situation where you've run out of bandwidth
say you've got a one gigabit connection and the clients
on your network want to use like 1.1 gigabit
well it's gonna put that game traffic
before the rest of the traffic in every situation.
And that means you know, if you're gaming
you're not gonna have lag
despite other people using your network a lot.
And and the same for streaming.
I mentioned the AI auto QoS mode and that's basically
just gonna use an algorithm that's pre-programmed
onto the router itself to try to prioritize traffic
based on the needs of your network's users.
You can also go on the web interface
and pick specific services that you're using to prioritize.
So say you're like really heavy YouTube watcher
and there's lots of people on your network
well you can go in there and hit YouTube
and it'll prioritize that for you,
which we'll we'll see later.
On the outside I did confirm this is the QoS button.
We've got an arrangement of LEDs.
That one will probably be for internet.
You've got a link activity led
for all of the ports and
then power WPS for Wifi protected setup.
Wifi button, maybe that turns Wifi on and off, I don't know.
And then there's an led off button.
Especially when you got lots of lights like this.
If you have this thing in your bedroom or something
and you're trying to go to sleep, having a button to
turn them off is a lot nicer than having to go
into the web interface.
On the back we've got four gigabit ports
and a 2.5 GB WAN and LAN which is great.
This is Wifi 6E base.
So if you had a above gigabit connection, you probably
could get above gigabit through this router on Wifi.
Wifi 6E got a USB 3.0 port presumably for expanding storage
power button and the end power.
And of course there's a reset as well.
You see those two little silver stripes here.
Those are actually heat pipes
and then in between them is a like a
giant aluminum heat sink.
This thing has got some serious cooling
and it's gonna need that for the
1.8 gigahertz quad core CPU
that powers the thing.
I mean even just looking at the power brick
this guy says 12 volt, 3.5 amp, 42 watts.
That's a fair bit of power
and it should mean a fair bit of performance.
They did mention in their talking points that the heat pipes
and array they have in here resulted in a
12 degree lower temperature.
I'm assuming that means compared to not having
this upgraded cooling.
But yeah, should should run cool and quiet.
Oh it's connected.
Wow.
Oh cool. Look at this.
This is great.
When you log in to use your router for the first time,
use the admin page for the first time.
It just prompts you.
Do you want to change the name of the Wifi network?
So many people, I go to their house
and it's like tellus7392 like bruh
you can change that (beep).
Wow, look at this dashboard.
It's so pretty.
Wireless clients.
We have one and it's my MacBook Pro.
That makes sense.
Cool. I could block it.
Ooh, spicy.
Memory.
We got traffic analyzer.
We're not using a whole lot of traffic.
AI auto mode.
It appears they're using a third party service
called GT booster to power the AI QoS
and the parental control feature.
If you're somebody who isn't super into like phoning home
and stuff, you can just disagree and use traditional QoS.
But I am going to agree.
Oh look, it's doing stuff now.
It had one breath, one singular breath.
Oh it breathed again.
Did you see the breath?
Ayy red breath right?
And then it is updating in the web GUI as I click it.
Maybe not instantly, but within a few seconds it updated.
That's pretty cool.
Okay, so work from home prioritizes
online meeting streams and conference calls.
So that actually makes sense.
So like zoom or anything like that,
it'll prioritize in the work from home setting
which could actually be important
if you don't have great internet.
I'm always thinking from the perspective of
you know if you had gigabit
and you were trying to use 1.1 gigabit
but if you have like 20 down 5 up
that's when features like this are really important.
Oh (beep) You can sync the RGB
on this thing with the RGB on your pc, your MSI pc.
That's actually kind of kind of awesome.
You got port forwarding in here.
It's important if you want to like host a Minecraft server
for your friends or something like that.
Integrated open VPN which is sweet network analysis.
Do a ping trace route, aim server lookup, net stent
all the usual stuff in here.
Now there's actually a fair bit of control in here.
I'm gonna set our, our six gigahertz
to 160 wide 'cause we want lots, lots of speed.
As much speed as possible.
What can you do?
Is this a schedule?
Can I make a schedule for when this Wifi's on?
I can make a schedule for when the Wifi is on.
Cool. So I hate my kids.
Wow. There's actually a lot of
there's a lot of options in here.
Six gig guard interval
can convert multicast to unicast
which is usually called multicast enhancement.
That's good.
Oh here, let's try the LED off.
Oh I turned off these LEDs.
Bruh. Appreciate MSI sponsoring this video.
But this LED off button should very much turn the LEDs
of this off as well.
It seems kind of silly.
I wanna look at the propaganda quick start guide.
Ooh, it's one of these.
Hi, let just break out my map really quick.
I like that it gives you a URL to connect to
instead of an IP.
Cause if you change the subnet on your router then
whatever IP that they put on there wouldn't work.
They have a phone app.
Hey look at that.
I'm screen recording, don't worry.
Look at it. It's basically the same.
Devices. We got that there.
Game center.
Game turbo booster.
You can turn that on,
you can adjust your QoS profile.
Oh you can schedule a daily reboot.
That's cool.
Oh cool.
It's scanning the band you're using,
so like 2.4 or five or six gigahertz
and telling you the other networks that are using it.
It which is these two.
So if you're trying to figure out
like problems with interference,
you can use a tool like this to scan the surroundings
and maybe change the channel
that this access point is using
to different them.
Say your neighbors to reduce the amount of interference.
All right, that's like a great little app.
A lot of them don't have apps like this
and you just have to use the web interface
and a lot of the web interfaces are not optimized
for using on a phone, which obviously
if you just wanna change your Wifi password
or adjust your parental controls really quick
not having to break out a computer is pretty nice.
You can set multiple SSIDs.
So if you wanted to have like a Wifi called Jake's Wifi
and then you could have another Wifi that says
Bell is not the real Jake.
You could have both of them at the same time
and you can set different passwords for them.
Great, you can do it by band even.
So only on the six gigahertz if you have an extra one
whatever you want.
Guest network.
Oh crap, you can have a guest access too.
This is a pretty featured little Wifi Guy here.
I've only ever had like is ISP provided
or like Amazon access points
and then I went to like a full enterprise solution.
I never kind of went in between.
So it's amazing that a lot
of these enterprise features are also available
on a kind of consumer product like this.
Not to say that it's not fast, but it is more oriented
at normal people.
As part of the quality of service features
MSI has game accelerator built
into this router access point.
I guess it's part of the
gaming quality of service profile to ensure that
when you are gaming
the gaming traffic packets are the number one priority.
So you don't have any interruptions in your gaming.
It's not gonna help you if your ISP sucks
but assuming everything coming into this is good
it should keep gaming good.
Okay, we got our AEP here positioned optimally very
close to our, our computer.
We're on Wifi 6E.
Oh it doesn't know that's why.
Whoa. 1100 down 1200 down.
Damn brother.
1200 up to, oh it went down to 1100
still above it is quite literally faster
than the hardwired network ports on this lap.
Oh it's almost 1500 now.
Oh, 1326. Let's go.
1500. Holy (beep)
The laptop's fan is actually
like kicking up because the speed test is so fast.
One thing I will mention with Wifi 6E
because it's six gigahertz instead of five gigahertz
it's gonna have less penetrating power.
It also means that to get crazy crazy speeds
like above gigabit like this, you know
as soon as we move this guy over here
we'll probably be able to see a reduction in speed.
But I mean if you're in the same room
you should probably be able to get
at least gigabit, maybe above, still almost a thousand down.
Mind you, this is not the be all and end all
of speed testing because there is a server
on the other end that is being used
by other people you never know.
All right, the upload speed is still 1500
up and we're this far.
Should I go on a little walk?
Here we go, everyone we're walking, we're walking.
I'm probably I mean you can see the
short circuit set over there.
I'm probably 20 feet away now, almost 800 down.
See what the upload speed's like.
Oh we're still getting, still uploading at a gigabit.
So I mean yes, there was a reduction 20 feet away.
I'm still getting 1100 up.
Like that's, that's pretty good.
Okay, we're gonna pretend that we're Riley here.
This is the tech news.
Oof. Oof.
I'm a lot further.
Probably a hundred feet maybe, maybe not a hundred feet.
Let's say 50 feet through a bunch of metal
and shelves and the signal is is gone down a lot
because it's six gigahertz
the range is not gonna be as good.
So we're only getting like 200 up, 130 down.
But if we switch back to the 5G
and you could have these on the same SSID
and they would switch automatically much better
200 down and upload speed closer like 250, 230, 230, yeah.
Let's do, I'm gonna do one over here.
So it's just, we're pretty close.
It's just on the other side of that wall.
But we have one wall between us now.
It's still pretty good.
I mean a lot of people's 5G
is gonna cap out at like 500, 600.
So 500 down, 700 up through a wall.
Sweet. Overall really fast Wifi, with Wifi 6E.
You can do up to eight streams
across the three bands
for a theoretical max of 6.6 gigabit, which is super fast.
You've got the 2.5 GB WAN, which is great to see
especially since Wifi 6E can support it.
And we just saw that.
Nice build doesn't feel
like it's getting hot or anything.
I do wish the LED off button would turn those LEDs off.
But other than that, pretty cool product.
If you wanna pick up the MSI RadiX AXE6600
you can go on New Egg and use code Luckyhundred
until March 15th
to save a hundred bucks off of the MSRP which is 349.
So 249.
That's a pretty good deal
for something with this much horsepower.
You can also get it on the MSI store,
but that won't be at a discount.
So you might as well buy it from New Egg.
So thanks for watching.
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