How did we ever learn about anything before web videos? 

This product might seem a little confusing. It's a wireless Wi-Fi router that seems to be able to connect via Ethernet, 3G/4G or…Wi-Fi? If your head is about to implode from that logical paradox fear not: The good people at ZyXEL have made a handy video that explains things perfectly.

So click this link to open the video and get learnin'. We'll do a little "live blog" of the video as it goes, but we're sure the ZyXEL people will take care of you.

0:12 It sure has!

0:17 Just look at all this productivity!

0:27 I sure…do?

0:32 Oh hi, Tri. Do you always introduce yourself 30 seconds after you begin talking?

0:47 Tri's really whetting our appetite for the part where he explains what this thing actually does.

1:05 Catch that? THAT's what it does. (i.e. everything).

1:13 Funny, my wife is always saying that I have a unique failover capability. Guess it's not so unique!

1:21 OHMYGODIT'SAHOVERCRAFT!

1:31 Graphics like these are a great way to simplify complex explanations.

1:51 Right. Sure.

2:00 Always on? But what if it turns against its master?

2:17 By the time I'm researching Future Tech it's usually 4am and my tanks are rolling through the Incan Empire.

2:22 Oh THAT's what this low-quality padlock on an ephemeral ring of binary code around the Earth is meant to symbolize.

2:33 Whoa whoa. What was that, Tri? I must have misheard something there. Let me just go back a few seconds.

2:33 [Again] OK, well since this is clearly such an important feature let's just dictate exactly what Tri says: "…And can distinguish legitimate packets from…different packets, connections / block others."

2:55 If there was audio, you would be able to hear her wrist slowly breaking.

3:04 Few people know that Tri, in addition to being a Product Marketing Manager, is also an accomplished funk bassist.

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