Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I’ve never seen anything like this before… – eero Max 7”.
This thing is legitimately kind of exciting the Euro. Max 7 is the first WiFi, 7 router we’ve been able to get our hands on and Wi-Fi 7 has some clear benefits for consumers. I mean not most consumers, since the odds of you having a Wi-Fi 7 device to connect to. It is pretty slim right now, but in the future it will be up to – and this is Wi-Fi specs, so you can take it for the horse that it is 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6E in order to reach the 48 gabit per second advertised Peak through Putut of Wi-Fi 7, you would have to have 16 spatial streams running that is essentially 16 parallel connections between the two devices for context.
Most mobile phones have one or two because of the power requirements of running more spatial streams that doesn’t mean that in somewhere, like a oh, I don’t know, say a stadium for, for example, that you might never see numbers at least approaching that, but at home to A single device, not even close, but that doesn’t mean you – won’t see numbers greater than you’re used to seeing with this thing, especially if you’re upgrading from Wi-Fi 6, because, like Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7, has support for the 6 GHz band, which means you are less likely To run into interference with your neighbors if you’re, somewhere, like in a highrise or a multiplex, and because most of your devices aren’t going to be using Wi-Fi 6 GHz, yet it’s really useful to act as a wireless back haul between mesh access points like these ones. Nice and fast, no interference. Let’S have a look at what’s included. We’Ve got a couple of USBC power bricks. We’Ve got kind of cheap feeling, braided, probably cap 5e cable, for these are 45 W power bricks.
You know I was reading a Ruckus article talking about how one of the concerns of about all these spatial streams and Wi-Fi 7 in general is power. Consumption of the access points no kidding is there anything else in here, nope, just the access points, they’re that big? That’S another major concern: that’s been flagged about Wi-Fi 7, whether it’s to handle the cooling or all the flipping antennas in them. These access points are getting quite large. Let’S take a look at some cool features here, though, we’ve got: dual 10 gig ports, dual 2 and 1/2 gig ports.
That gives a lot of flexibility and means that your network connection is not going to limit your internet speeds anytime soon. In fact, I have made the argument before and I’m going to make it again at extreme risk to myself that consumers do not need faster than gigabit or at most 2 and a half GB networking for a very very long time. And the reason is that most outside services, so the actual websites and services that you’re connecting to are not going to be fast enough to take advantage of more than that across their entire client base. And number two is that for raw downloads, even downloading games from Steam, you’re likely to end up CPU limited before you saturate, even a 2 1/2 gig internet connection, wow how un Amazon like right there under start setup delete my account and data huh, the hell’s, a Fiber Aunt, to be clear, I know what they’re talking about this would be the fiber box, that’s provided by your ISP.
I just mean: why would they? Why would they jargon this up meet my aunt? This is truly remarkable. Okay, you’ve got the close-up cam there right. I just opened this. It already looks disgusting.
I mean this has been out of the box for like 6 minutes. Can you see the layer of it’s like it has fur the dust? Why are things white Apple? I blame you. I blame you. These go in your ear. I guess now is a good time to tell you about our sponsor. It’S powercolor featuring their Red Devil, RX 7900 series, plus devil skin they’re optimized for 4K gaming, they’re, quiet and cool during long gaming sessions and can be customized with powercolor devil skin swappable back plates.
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For example, I had 2 and 1/2 gig internet I’d go into there and then, if I had say my you know, editing Workstation and a NZ I’d plug those both into 10 gigs. So I’d get nice fast timeline performance. Super cool, okay immediately found it wow, built-in, zigg and matter and Fred, a that’s kind of cool, Amazon’s frustration. Free setup. I mean yeah, okay, o okay. Now this is where we get into trouble.
One of the worst Trends in Enterprise networking has been the move towards everything being as a service and on the one hand there are definitely parts of Euro plus that do make sense to have a subscription fee for like, for example, uh they’ve partnered, with uh Guardian. For VPN service it actually does cost money to run VPN servers on an ongoing basis. You can’t just buy Hardware once and then have VPN service forever. Some of these things make less sense to me.
There’S the historical data that I mentioned earlier, so network data usage monitoring network activity. Why is that not just included? That’S just basic that runs locally uh. I don’t even understand what internet backup means. Add alternate wireless connections like a personal hotspot, to keep your Wi-Fi up and running, even when your wired connection goes down. So what like failover? Why can’t? I just have failover you can even block ads. I can’t believe how expensive this is $ 130 a year. Oh wait. I get a month, oh, but I could get 30 days free.
Do I want a month free or 30 days? I guess it depends. What month it is get the best deal didn’t. I did I not just subscribe to. Oh my god. Oh, the last couple of things that Euro plus includes is the ability to block apps so like Facebook or YouTube for your kids, see that that’s one that really shouldn’t be on a subscription VIP support. Okay, that I understand and Dynamic DNS which – and I guess, if you can afford the erom max 7 – you can afford the subscription holy. It’S two pack is $ 1,100 you’re all set. How many times are you going to tell me I’m all set. Am I all set what is happening right now? I just subscribed. This is a Wi-Fi 7 device by the way, this is the OnePlus open, interesting it automatically configured a 2.45 GHz Network and a 6 GHz Network.
Well H, interesting, why? Why would it do that cuz? You will almost never end up connected to the 6 GHz Network in that configuration it’ll just just grab onto the 5 GHz 2.4 GHz. One and it’ll end up being really sticky, because 6 GHz by definition, is not going to have as good range as even 5 GHz, so I’ve I’ve found from my own experience. You don’t want to just have them separate if you can avoid it, you know what fine sure no we’re going to use it like it would be out of the bot. Oh, I was took this selfie earlier because I was like oh look. It makes my head. Look really small, you can block apps like Roblox.
Oh really, you know what fine I’m subscribing again trying to stop me. Oh, I already own. This item got it okay. Well, then, why are you prompting me for it? Oh look at this. It’S now 2.45 and 6 GHz all in the same SSID, okay.
So what I said before then now we have a device, add a device that one save. Maybe now I can enable add blocking you kidding me: okay, how about content full restart, tried, turning it off and turning it back on yeah yeah, I have come on Jeffy. Just take my hard-earned money use, oh internet backup with an ero Plus subscription.
It wasn’t the trust me bro Scandal, it wasn’t the ad block scandal and it wasn’t even this year’s summer Scandal. This is what pushed me over the edge thanks EO. Oh oh, I assume that was a WPS button. I guess WPS is just oh, no wow. It Factory wow, okay, that’s pretty cool it Factory resetted on its own, okay, you know what forget it for the life of me. I cannot subscribe to their service, so we won’t be trying their ad blocking. We won’t be trying their content filtering. Maybe it’s decent.
I have no idea not for lack of trying. What I want to know is how fast this wi-fi 7 connection is on a real device, not a hypothetical device that can do like a 320 MHz wide Channel or 16 spatial streams or whatever the case may be. So we’re connected to it. We are going on speed test which, to be clear, is going to be limited by the server on the other side potentially, but has gotten a lot faster lately? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! What the actual I mean, it’s well shy of the 46 gigabit per second, that they advertise or whatever, but like.
I have never seen anything like this on Wi-Fi that is incredible and again caveats. This is not the kind of thing that you’re going to notice when you’re just browsing the web, because realistically the DNS lookup is going to take longer than the actual data download. What kind of performance do I get out of it with a legacy device? Just 42 yep, that’s about all Wi-Fi 5 can do here. We go woo, not nearly as fast.
I wouldn’t mind it on a device that doesn’t have a subscription, but I mean people seem super happy with these things. So I guess you know to each their own, but man I am. I am way more stoked for Wi-Fi 7 than I was before holy crap. Look at it go! That’S it. We’Ve seen it Wi-Fi 7! It’S crazy! It’S lunchtime see you later guys. Watch short circuit subscribe, 3 gabit per second upload .