This wireless router can’t possibly be good… can it? - Minion Routers

Yes, like you, I saw the Minions Wi-Fi

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s on Reddit and thought, "They can't be real, right?", but unlike you, I bought them, so here are Bob and Kevin, ready to turn your Wi-Fi evil, how evil you are! ask Does

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piig b b banana ban oh there's one thing about me, there really isn't much information on these other than what the manufacturer publishes on the box, the Bob version is ax1 1800 so this is Wi-Fi. 6, while Kevin's version is Ax 5400, so WiFi 6E, other than that, Kevin's version is tri-band, which it has to be to be WiFi 6E, so it has 2.4 support GHz and 5 GHz and 6 GHz each at 160 MHz.

The channel widths that an uplink port has are 2 and 1/2 gigs, which is not necessarily surprising at this price, but it is a little surprising on something that I had perceived it as a fairly novel article. Usually they don't think about performance at all, but this clearly does because all of us What we have to do is flip one more panel and we see that it also uses an updated Qualcomm processor compared to the dual-core mys IIA processor more basic in the Bob version and has more. I guess Dam. I guess not flash Dam. they really mean anything, I think they mean Flash and Dam, so it has 512 megabytes of RAM.

This side of the box is also where we discover that they are designed by Davink, a Korean company that has been around since 2000 and specializes in business and educational networks. I have a QR code for the installation guide and that's it and you won't find much more information online compared to what they tell you on the box. They are mesh compatible. You could have a Kevin for your Internet connection and then I have a whole network of Bobs connected to them, they have support for WPA 3, which we actually did a video online like tech tips recently and explained why that is very important and what What's included in the box is apparently everything, yes.

We're going to need a little clarification on that, so why don't we go ahead and say: OMG, this is so cute, my very own Minion, it's not very heavy, but a

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doesn't necessarily have to be heavy to indicate its quality oh my

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ness it's so nice if you want to connect more than one wired client you will need a network switch so you only have a Wan port and a Lan port there is a mesh button which I assume is for setting an LED which I should assume it lights up the eyes I really hope it does and then I turn it on oh my gosh the shoes are rubber the attention to detail guys it's so cute cute even the cute look of the cable it's a power cable Minion.

I wasn't really expecting to find anything extra in Kevin's box, but who knows, it's $130 compared to just $69 for Bob. It's much heavier, which highlights that this is a completely different product, not just two different versions of the same thing crammed into a smaller chassis. and a bigger chassis, it feels like it has some heatsinks too, oh my god, its hair TFT is rubber too, oh, it's probably not the eyes that light up, it's probably this right here, okay, oh wow, this is a very short Ethernet cable, huh, that's it. Too bad, hey, here we go, we have activity LEDs now, well, here, let's do the setup, this is pretty simple, just scan this QR code to connect and then scan a second QR code.

Well, the easy setup is broken here. We get there, it turns out that whatever Apple is doing with its default DNS settings and Safari on the iPhone just doesn't work for this, it works fine on Android and it works fine on a desktop or laptop, so let's go ahead and check. this control panel I love that the default admin username is Bob come on how perfect is that like they really did it they really put effort into this one guys wait what happens if you reconfigure SSID Z? SSID 1 just shows up so now I have Kevin sucks and I have Bobor one How do I turn that one off?

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Oh, and free shipping was here before. This enabled box was here before. No, that enable and disable thing is not here and this supply button that is here in the easy settings is not here. in the Wi-Fi settings, one right, guys, tell me, tell me what's happening right now. Does the little paper airplane apply? I would not recommend using the Easy Wi-Fi setting. There were a couple of concerns we saw raised about the device online. someone said it doesn't support pppe so if you need it then i guess the

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router is not for you and more importantly a reddit user pointed out that there is a vulnerability where the wifi password is passed to the U console in plain text, however it should be noted that someone would need physical access to the device to take advantage of that exploit, so once someone has physical access you'll be in for quite a bit of chat anyway, although it is time for the moment you've all been waiting for.

Is it really a working Wi-Fi router? It's a gigabit connection running on it. Half half megabit. Wow, the loads are even better. 500 megabit download. 700 more. Very reasonable, but can Kevin do better? I'm not going to bother setting everything up on this one and guys. I'm sure there are things we could do to tune things up a little better, but we want to see how they'll work out of the box because realistically, that's how most people who buy a newfangled router like this will use it. Okay, not bad, you can see that our ISP is delivering a little more gigabit on this connection.

Unfortunately, UBC doesn't really give us

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enough consistency in our downloads to draw any kind of reasonable conclusion. Let's move on to the inconsistency of the test. It's a big deal though because under normal circumstances you won't be right next to your router anyway and the bottom L will be, you know, what kind of connection can you access it through a wall or whatever , so we We're on a wall right now, let's see how we do here oh yeah, I don't think the University of British Columbia is the problem here wow, okay, so I just walk through this door oh wow, this doesn't have a wall, guys, look. the team is right there it's like this is weird guys Kevin Kevin, are you okay?

It probably changed to 2.4 when I got to the other side of the door and then just didn't pick up 5GHz or 6GHz again ooh oh that's Not good oh man I didn't mean to go into Kevin's control panel but I'll have have to do it, so this is what we're going to do. You're in an apartment and you simply don't need 2.4 GHz and we. We're just going to turn off 2.4, so the question we're trying to answer here is: can you buy your mom one of these or will she call you complaining the minute she walks 30 feet away from it or gets into another one? space, if you understand the compromise you're making, that 2.4 GHz is not going to work, let's go, let's go back to the other side of the door, come on, okay, moving doesn't seem to be good, seriously, surprisingly, this rate much better, so the problem is not necessarily the wall or the distance.

I'm probably about the same distance from Kevin as before, the problem seems to be the antenna pickup pattern, so if you live in a semi-detached house, you know. like a three level but like a small builder Perfect okay we're back yeah like we can actually see it here so the problems are full TW. Switching between different bands is handled extremely poorly now, which could be exacerbated by Trends devices, but whoever is to blame, it's not a good experience with

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. I guess Bob is no better than Kevin and then problem number two is that the pickup pattern on this antenna is I don't know what word to use. use to describe it other than unforgivable um, it worked very well up top, so it's not that it's completely incapable of going through walls, it's that the pickup pattern is very strong vertically and yes, yes, that's it, it's a Cenna sticking out of The top of this thing is really poor horizontally, so right now I can't say I can recommend the Minions

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for anything other than the cuteness factor, so if you're in an extremely small space and just want a nice little Wi-Fi hotspot, then they are great and if you want performance you should probably look elsewhere, like the hotspot provided by your ISP, compared to these things, subscribe to Short Circuit.