This wireless router can’t possibly be good… can it? - Minion Routers
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Published 2024-04-12
Minion Routers. Need I say more? Oh, I do? Well, Linus is here to find out if these reasonably priced and unreasonably cute WiFi routers shaped like your favourite yellow evil-doers are worth gifting to your mom, or if it's actually more trouble than it's worth. Banana!
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 We seen it too
0:25 Specs
2:03 Unboxing Bob
3:07 Unboxing Kevin
3:41 Setup
4:42 Sponsor - Manscaped
5:22 Finishing setup
6:19 Speed testing and troubleshooting
9:19 Overall thoughts
10:24 Outro
All Comments (21)
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missed opportunity. Default admin should be Gru
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The idea of a router looking like a piece of art or otherwise an organic extension of the interior design is really quite appealing, but only if design doesn't compromise function.
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I actually really like the idea of a router that doesn't look like a router.... I don't think I want a minion one tho
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It will be so awesome when your kids grab your wireless router, yank it off the cord, and run around the house with it.
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It has always baffled me that novelty wireless routers are so rare.
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"It's not that heavy..." It's the internet; it doesn't weigh anything Linus.
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For any kid who loves the Minions, these would be a workable router hidden in plain sight within their room, assuming they have a dedicated Ethernet port to jack them into. Some modern homes are offering Ethernet lines as part of their package to get around walls weakening WiFi, and some techie homeowners might put in lines themselves or request it during construction.
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I was expecting him to pull out a screwdriver and open them up. Please let us see the inside of Kevin and Bob!
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I would have a self-hosted speed test at this point. You can do however long of a speed test you want to do. With only the access point being the limitation.
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3:05 “Not really expecting to find anything extra in Kevin’s box but who knows” Excuse me?
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My only concern is cabling, since this is a router that can actually go pretty well on a bookshelf as decoration. Thankfully it’s not something that would end up on a Dankpods video 10 years down the line because it was complete garbage
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The pickup pattern being vertical makes a lot of sense for a Korean manufacturer. A majority of their demographic would live in apartment buildings and the users wouldn't want a lot of interference / signal aimed from their neighbours.
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7:54 THAT!! That right there is exactly why I NEVER allow my routers and access points to use the same SSID for all wifi bands! I always set separate SSID's for 2.4ghz, 5ghz and 6ghz. It's EXTREMELY common for devices to get stuck on 2.4ghz when all bands are on the same SSID, no matter what devices you're using.
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2:30 I can't unsee the minion butt.
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02:17 "It's not very heavy" I'm an old IBM tech. I remember one of the older IBM terminals (5250? midframe) that the keyboard was too light from a marketing perspective. So they (IBM engineer's) added a 5lb. weight to it so that the keyboard feels more solid.
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Don't test a wireless access point over the internet. Just run iperf3 or similar on one of your local servers and don't have the potential bottleneck. It'd take someone like Jake 15 minutes to set up, tops. After being instructed once, anyone can use it. There's probably some GUI client available if someone genuinely struggles remembering the three word command to launch it from a shell.
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Oh Linus you never showed us the LED switch on
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This stupid minion router is 20× faster then mine 😭
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There is a lot of EMI and RFI interference in LMG studio. I suspect the spot there the Kevin router was the strongest had the least interference. These routers are priced at entry level home devices. I think they would work for a small home or apartment.
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The antenna gain on the box is labeled to be 5-6dbi, this indicates some pretty strong directionality was to be expected (0dbi is ideally isotropic or perfectly spherical).
