maybe a year ago was it about a year ago
is a little while ago when we moved into
this new studio space this large space
we were looking for an upgrade to our
internet our coverage our speed and so
on amplify happened to reach out to
sponsor a video at that time to give us
the fastest internet that we had seen up
until that point well of course they've
been working in the background to
improve the equipment that they've got
this is their new product the amplify
alien so when we were looking for the
next upgrade this was the perfect
partnership is now powered by wi-fi six
technology and we have several devices
in the studio that can actually take
advantage of that including the latest
galaxy note as well as the iphone 11 11
pro and pro max they all support wi-fi
six kind of the perfect test to compare
the new product to the old amplified
product to our old setup to see what
kind of improvement we can see in our
internet speed this is going to be
available
in a single router package like this or
eventually also in
a mesh setup with
two separate units to cover an even
bigger space but to be honest the main
unit is probably going to be substantial
enough for most people's setups multi
gig speeds
802.11 ax wi-fi six remote management
you manage the whole thing from an
application this unit has a screen on
the front as you can see i mean it's
called alien so it's already got will's
vote how about the unboxing experience
look at this
wow kind of has a
monolithic vibe going on which you know
you already know i'm into that
it's got a matte black finish on it
and of course it still has your wired
connections if you choose to use them
those gigabit connections there's four
on there also inside the package you
have this flat ethernet cable with some
cable management on there so no separate
power brick it must be built into the
unit so that's kind of nice it's also a
flat style power cable its very own
cable management setup within the unit
so your cable lives on the inside of
here and then comes out the back so
everything is hidden and it stays
sitting flat you're simply going to
launch the amplify app power off the
pre-existing broadband router and then
plug this one into that one and jump
back into the app and complete the setup
process
you're sitting there wondering who what
is this blazing what do you need what
are you doing over there but we got guys
like will we got guys like jack they're
uploading videos it's a whole thing yeah
they're tight they're tapping they're
uploading to be serious we're talking
about files that are many gigabytes so
to chop that in half potentially from
our previous wi-fi setup is actually
it's pretty appealing we've got the unit
plugged in now as you can tell and the
standout feature is this display on the
front that's actually a touch screen
granted the way that you set it up and
usually interact with it is via an app
on your phone which does most of the
heavy lifting so here's the app it's on
this note this is a note 10 plus right
over here you install the amplify app it
works on either ios or android but for
the purpose of this video i'll do it on
the note 10 plus so
set up the system it sees the alien
router and just says setup required so
you click on that
it makes a nice little chime it gives
you a green light at the bottom because
it's an alien after all the speaker and
light are actually configurable once you
get into the app as well if you have
this in a place where you might want to
dim that or something you can't do it
although full alien status when you have
it glowing in this way name your network
i'm going to call it faster hopefully it
is faster and it comes to life it starts
showing you things all right so there is
tons of configuration available in the
app remember i was talking about the
light and the screen you can actually
set up a night mode so those things can
dim accordingly depending on the time of
day of course your security settings as
well and remember this is this is a type
of setup that you can extend to an
entire mesh network so you can set up
various nodes you can set up additional
ssids so the first speed test that i
want to run is actually on the unit
itself with the wired connection so if
you want to take advantage of the wired
gigabit you can see what you're capable
of in a speed test so as you can see
here it's kind of got this cool graphic
where it's tracking the throughput so i
can go ahead and just tap that and it
will start by testing the download speed
which you can see there tracking over
900 down
megabits per 919mbps down
but the more exciting one is actually on
the upload for us because we do a lot of
that and that's 970 megabits per second
up but that's an optimal scenario the
real exciting part is on wi-fi six and
the various different devices that get
wi-fi access to this type of setup pixel
4 xl on the left
we have an iphone 11 pro max followed by
a note 10 plus
and an s10 plus we've got all the right
ingredients here we got the fat
connection
we've got the amplify alien and we got
some really nice smartphone hardware so
let's kick off the speed testing with
the pixel 4 xl i have selected the exact
same server location so that it's
equivalent across the board okay pixel 4
xl all right
nothing wrong with that just under
500 megabits per second
and close to
700 megabits per second on the upload
it's probably the fastest speed test
i've personally done on this phone since
i've had it so that's good all right
let's switch over to the iphone 11 pro
max
oh okay
so
obviously
higher on the download significantly 626
down
by 677 up so a little bit of discrepancy
on the upload we move to the note 10
plus
606 by ooh and look at that upload that
is a crazy upload for a smartphone
in 2019 my goodness 8 840
up on wireless okay
and last but not least we have the s10
plus
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alright so
pretty similar i mean the big jump that
you notice on the download
exists mostly from the pixel to these
other three the iphone is winning in the
download department the note in the
upload department that's probably the
largest discrepancy is upload speed from
the iphone to the note
going up to 840 megabits per second
whereas the download these three at
least are kind of in the same range this
is all very fast this is all very quick
download upload speed to get a wireless
connection on this standard right here
is is pretty wild so by default the
router shows you this screen it shows
you the bandwidth currently being
utilized it shows you the number of
devices connected on wi-fi it shows you
the number of devices connected that are
wired now you can slide you can swipe on
this display you can see your total data
consumption
you can swipe again you can see the
status of each wired port on this
display there's actually two separate
speed tests so you have a mesh speed
test as well as an internet throughput
speed test you can also run this test
from the application so you don't need
to be right beside the router to do that
as you can see here i can click this
little button
and it's immediately going to start
running
a throughput test you can see these
crazy figures right here the amplify app
also has a family section so i could
just imagine
everybody has been there's a lot of
misbehavior taking place in the studio i
could just pause internet on all devices
that's it enough
i've had it i've had it up to here
it's always up to here
i could actually go in and select
somebody like jack if he's the culprit i
could select jack i could just turn his
internet off i could change his priority
level i could see what he's using like
he's using too much video too much
youtube
what yeah jack too much yeah you spent
too much time on youtube down there
yeah i can see everything jay if i set
up a profile
let's call this
kids this is the profile for the kids in
the house and i can put a quiet time in
there you see that i could i could put a
quiet time right in there so that's kind
of cool nice little feature there as
well it's an upgrade for the studio
shout out to amplify for the latest
alien i mean we run on the internet the
internet is our fuel the internet is how
you're watching this the internet is how
our content gets up there so any
improvement there is actually a big deal
around the office so
it's cool i appreciate it and we are
totally gonna take advantage of it