today we're taking a look at the budget VPN hidden Router and that's coming up
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router and it's their budget model VPN router for those unsure of what it is
it's essentially a plug-and-play router that will provide you with a fully
secure VPN for anything connected via ethernet or Wi-Fi this means it's easy
to protect your online activity on all devices from PCs streaming boxes and
phones to even games consoles and TVs when it comes to their range is the
cheapest router but still offers good enough specs so will be a popular choice
for most but we will cover the differences shortly if we go ahead with
the unboxing you can see first up we've got the four antennas which simply screw
on to the router two of them for 2.4 gigahertz and the
other two were for the 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi and it's all labeled so we know which
ones go where next we've got the instructions that give you your Wi-Fi
password as well as the route to login details then we've got the power adapter
and this will of course would be the correct adapter for your country and
finally we've got an Ethernet cable along with the router itself the m150
supports up to 120 megabits per second via Wi-Fi and 230 over Ethernet this is
plenty for normal streaming and downloading and of course if your
internet speed is lower than this then you'd still receive the same speeds it
also has the ability to block ads and malware via network for those who do
require faster speeds there's also the M 250 which allows 180 over Wi-Fi or 430
over Ethernet and you can click the card in the top right to check out my video
review on that but today we're focusing on the m150
so to set it up we simply plug in the provided ethernet cable into our router
and then plug the other end into the hidden router using the blue WAN port plug
in the power cable and that's pretty much it we can then plug in our devices
via ethernet cables into the yellow LAN port or simply connect via Wi-Fi with as
many devices as we want so I decided to put the speeds to the
test first of all I decided to use speedtest.net but while it does have a
nice interface I find varying results from the site
depending on how busy the test servers are but we did get a max speed of 218
megabits per second which is what the Rooter claims to provide upload speeds
were always around 35 megabits per second and that is my full upload speed
I then headed over to fast comm powered by Netflix or I received a consistent
scoring of 210 megabits per second and this happened on five different tests
one actually did show 200 but you can see the top three here now onto the
Wi-Fi I decided to use my pixel 3 Excel for this test and strangely enough I've
got a consistent score of 150 megabits per second at using fast comm which is
actually higher than the listed specs and again when I switched over to the
speed test application I was getting consistent speeds of around 140 megabits
per second which again is higher than the listed specs testing the Wi-Fi range
it also performed better than the route are provided by my ISP is a rule of
thumb though the route is provided by your ISP generally do not have the best
Wi-Fi logging in to the router couldn't be any simpler using a web browser and
the instructions that they provide you with the interface is clean and easy to
find any information or change any settings you're after a common setting
to change it's going to be the Wi-Fi name and that can easily be done by
heading to network then wireless press edit on wireless and if we scroll down
we can simply change the e SSID and then click Save and apply if we then check
our network you can see the name has now changed when it comes to the package
I've placed a link in the description that will take you to this page here you
can select the hidden router with one month service all the way up to two
years the m150 with a month subscription starts at 97 pounds 19 or a hundred and
nineteen dollars but the longest subscription you choose that the better
value you get and of course this does come with the Rueter overall it's a
great solution for those that either want all of their devices to connect to
a VPN or even just some of them is you've got the choice of whether to
connect your normal route or the VPN root on each device and it's
a nice simple way to get things that like TVs and Xbox is running a VPN
otherwise if there is anything I've missed or you've got any questions
please just ask them in the comments and I'll get back to you as soon as I can
but thanks for watching the video if you liked it smash the thumbs up if you
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