 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Netgear Sentria. Contrary to what you might think based on the name of this product, it is not going to supervise anything. Although I guess, I mean, okay, hold on a second because you know, router's going to have a firewall in it, so maybe I'm not taking the whole Sentria because I was thinking like Sentria like, you know, like that. But the ones that pay attention, not like the video game ones where it's like they look the other way and you walk up and shank them. No, Sentria is more like central in this context. So the idea is that this is not only a router but also just generally a digital media hub. So it does a number of different things. Home networking simplified, blah blah blah, etc etc. Internet, Wi-Fi, router, network map, parental controls, that's important for a lot of people, ready share, easy to install, monitor, control and repair your home network with Netgear Genie. So that's their cloud-based management. Live parental controls, guest network access, broadband, usage meter, that's a great feature. Air print compatible, which is definitely a good thing and the fact that it has a lot of different functionality here. So you can back up, so it does have a hard drive bay or, well, look at that, you can single click SD card backup, super speed USB 3.0 ports for expanded storage and you can have a removable, easily upgradeable hard drive. You can share, so this we expect with pretty much any router, but you can share your USB hard drive and your printer, which is again sort of normal. Create a personal cloud for secure remote access. That's something that not every router necessarily has and I can't figure out how this box opens, but we'll work on that later. Use your mobile device to control and play your media, find and play your media on DLNA compatible devices and finally connect. So high speed, dual band Wi-Fi, 450 plus 450, so it's N900 optimized for streaming, two USB 3.0 ports, which is ahead of pretty much everything else out there and package contents, which of course we will find out because we're going to open, ah, that's where it opens. Yay, environmentally friendly packaging. Love to see this, so there's your paper thing. This is a big router, holy smokes. Look at this thing. Alright, so we're going to need to do the old iPhone size comparison here because, yeah, this thing is like huge. So here's an iPhone and that's a router. Seriously, it's a router, okay, and then there's like that, so we're going to go ahead and switch to the camera that makes a lot more sense to be using for this. There's the iPhone thickness compared to the router thickness and there's the size again, so yeah, that's that's a big, big router. Here's an installation guide, which presumably you will use and then inside the rest of the packaging we have more environmentally friendly packaging, which, no way, look at this. It has a drawer in the bottom. That is awesome. Every time I see something that I have never seen before as an unboxer I kind of geek out because, look at that, so the stuff's here and then the drawer's here, it's like a jewelry box. Not that I know anything about jewelry boxes. So you got, let's see, contents wise, you got an ethernet cable included, so it looks like, yeah, Cat5e. You've got a power brick. It's going to be a bigger power brick than you'd normally see on a router because it does have the potential to install a hard drive inside it. Power cable, again, so that's like a standard PC power cable, so it's like, again, beefier and then finally what appears to be a this side up, this should face back of product only used with three and a quarter inch thick disk. Okay, so this is something to do with the hard drive mounting mechanism. So let's have a look at the router itself. It's glossy. I mean this should basically be like a sin at this point, like, you know, someone with sort of all-powerful deity abilities should go and smite, you know, everyone who makes things glossy because it looks fantastic in like product brochures but then as soon as I pick up the thing, now I've touched it, now it's ruined. So you can see in that camera presumably, oh no, okay, maybe this is more resilient than usual. You can also see surface imperfections very, very easily with glossy surfaces, so that's something I don't like about them. What have you got here? So there's secure Wi-Fi, WPS button, so there's the label for that. Wi-Fi on or off. Love seeing a dedicated Wi-Fi on and off switch and there's a one button, one touch backup button. So this is cool. Okay, this is the kind of feature that I don't expect to find on a router. So there. SD card backup is actually built right into the side of the unit. That's very cool. So there's one of your USB 3 ports, there's your backup button, there's your SD card slot. Very, very cool. The back is glossy again. No surface imperfections though. I'm looking at you and you. And then inside there, wouldn't have minded if these were a little bit easier to access because of the shape of the router. You can see it's a bit of a sort of, I don't know, you can't get two fingers in there to plug an ethernet port in easily, but there's a WAN port, four gigabit ethernet ports, USB 3 over here on the other side, a reset button, a reset switch, power on and off. That's a toggle switch, which is nice. I like knowing if it's powered on or off. And DC in. Over here we have the three and a half inch hard drive cage. So that is where you will actually always power off before removing the hard drive. That's good advice. It has a standard SATA interface at the back there. I hope you guys can see that. I don't think you can because of Diesel's depth of field trickery tomfoolery that makes it so you're focused up here and not back there. But it's okay, you'll have to trust me, it's in there. And I think that pretty much wraps it up. So what sets the Sentria apart from other routers? Basically the fact that you can install a hard drive in it. There are other routers. Western Digital has one, the MyNet N900, that you can install a hard drive in. Oh look at that, non-slip feed on the bottom, so that's good. The fact that it's netgear, so you know it's good. You know there's like nothing wrong with it. It's not going to explode when you plug it in or anything like that. And any functionality that they say it has, it pretty much will have, so you don't have to worry about that. And of course it is so much larger than all the other routers that it will simply crush them, especially with the hard drive inside. 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