 Welcome to my unboxing of the Buffalo Air Station WLiH4D1300. More importantly than the model number, what does it do? This is a wireless AC media bridge. So what does a media bridge do? Basically it's a glorified WiFi card because the intention of this particular device is just to give you a way to use your brand new wireless AC router. Remember guys, or I will not remember unless you've already seen the other video in which case remember, wireless AC is a 5 GHz dual band 1.3 Gbps wireless standard. This is the next generation standard that will at some point in time be completely replacing wireless N as what everything is using. Although right now it is still in its infancy as of the time of doing this unboxing it is in draft 2.0 standard. However, according to Buffalo, it works. So very, very cool stuff. Dual band media bridge, etc. etc. Okay, let's see what Buffalo has to say for themselves. So it's dual band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. It is backwards compatible with existing wireless standards. So it is also N450. So 450 Mbps there and AC1300 1.3 Gbps there. It has 4 Gbps ethernet ports on it. It's multi-device capable, hence the 4 Gbps ethernet ports. It's also multi-platform PC, Mac or mobile which it should be given that it's using wireless standards to connect to things. They're showing you how to set up your AC network. So there's your home router, there's your glorified network card and there is your wired connections going out to all of your devices. So when I say glorified network card, what I mean is really fancy network card because you could not only use it as a network card and connect it via a gigabit wired connection to one PC. So you would have in theory gigabit wireless connectivity. But you could also take it in its glory and connect it to four devices which assuming they were all fully utilizing the maximum theoretical bandwidth they'd all still be getting about 300 Mbps in terms of connectivity. So that's pretty crazy given you'd be splitting it four ways. Remember guys this is all theoretical so when it comes to wireless performance the ratings don't include things like overhead or interference or all that other nonsense that tends to interfere with wireless. However one that is theoretically faster than another one theoretically is in the real world will be faster even if those theoretical numbers don't pan out quite the way that we want them to. So in terms of included stuff we've got our CD connector which gives you a wizard for setting it up. We've got our quick setup guide which basically involves if you have the corresponding AC router from Buffalo, this guy right here which looks a little different, not very different mind you but a little bit different. If you have the corresponding AC router it should be pretty much a one touch thing. We've got a couple of little feet which will help us stand up our little air station media bridge guy right here so just put those down there and they slide into the appropriately slotted spot just like that. Yeah there's a better angle, there you go. And we've also got a power adapter, a couple of screws, a piece for the power adapter and finally their awesome flat ethernet cable that is like awesome in every possible way. We have one here in the Tech Tips lab and Slick and I will fight over who gets to use it. Right, so connect up to four wired devices to your ultrafast 11AC or high speed 11N wireless network. Once again it is capable of both. So having a quick look at the physical unit itself we have a reset switch on the bottom which whoops there you go, might come in handy if you ever need to reset the device to its factory defaults. On the back we've got a power button, we've also got power in so this is great if you want to power cycle it and you don't want to just yank the plug and put it back in. We've also got our four gigabit LAN ports and look at that a hardware button for setting it to 5GHz fixed mode. So that will change it from being in multi modes 2.4GHz, 5GHz to just 5GHz for WiFi. Remember guys wireless AC runs purely on the 5GHz spectrum rather than relying on the older now older 2.4GHz spectrum. So what that means is slightly reduced in theory range however the technologies for transmission strength as well as antennas continue to move forward to compensate for it but also significantly less interference due to the underutilization of this band compared to the overutilization of 2.4GHz. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WLiH4D1300 from Buffalo and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.