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The Cisco valet series of products claims to be the simple way to connect

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your PC to a wireless network however I haven't really had a chance to put it to

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the test yet so I've got a couple valet

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series products here first of all I have the valet valet valet however you prefer

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to pronounce it I'm going to say valet or valet I don't know I've got the valet

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router right here so this is a wireless end router it's got 4 1000 Ethernet

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ports and then it supports Wireless obviously that would be without wires

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okay so here's the back of the router that's basically what it looks like and

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then I have the little USB key that comes with the valet so I'm going to do

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two different scenarios first I am going to connect the valet to a computer

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running a thirdparty wireless card okay

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and then I'm going to use a linkis valet

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connector so this is their own valet

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branded USB Wi-Fi card and I'm going to see how much different the process is if

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at all versus connecting to a third party one this is the networking corner

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so what I'm going to do is I'm going to unplug my DGL 4500 plug in the Cisco Val

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and then we'll go from there okay the indicator lights we've got on here seem

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to be indicating Wireless is working our internet connection is active and I have

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one Lan Port plugged in so that is the

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one that goes to uh as per the label the

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side bedroom so that's where I'm on my way back to okay that didn't take nearly

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5 minutes but it did take about three um so congratulations you are now connected

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to the internet remove your easy setup key and keep it in a safe place you will

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use it to connect other computers so the easy setup key is basically just like uh

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WPS button as far as I can tell because

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it did manage to connect me to the network but I don't think it really did

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anything advanced like along the lines

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of what in the heck okay hold on maybe it did some more

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advanced things it changed the name of linkis 36 whatever whatever to shiny

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cheetah and also created uh a guest

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login as well that's kind of neat so

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they've generated some kind of okay well hold on let's open up the network check

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so it set it as a work Network which is

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interesting rather than as a home Network and it's name change the name

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okay so let's let's dig a little deeper and let's find out what exactly the easy

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setup wizard has done for us here so connect another computer or another

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device to Your Valet so you can add

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devices say for example another computer in your house okay so basically this is

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just a a wizard to walk you through

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walking down there and connecting the easy setup key okay uh here we've got

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wireless printer what if I wanted to do this

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refer to the printer's documentation okay so these are just little Wizards

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let's say oh Apple iPhone smartphone what if I were to do that I have an

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Apple iPhone smartphone here right in front of me okay so what would I want to

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do okay so here's the security key and the security type that it gives me and I

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can print these settings and then I can connect my smartphone I'm not going to

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bother doing that I know that'll work okay back back what else do we got we

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got guest access so allow guest access yes or no so I could turn that off I can

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set how many guests so I could say only one guest is allowed I can change the

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password it looks like the password by default is kiwi 52 which is not bad they

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should connect to the wireless guest Network listed above open a browser and then enter the guest password Neato well

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that's a cool option so you can set it up so that they have to enter a password

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besides just haering into your uh your

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shiny cheetah guest

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Wireless account neat okay so I can

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finish that I'll go back I actually I really like

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this the Cisco Connect software is looking pretty good to me right about

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now because this is the kind of this is the kind of layout that like my Aunt can

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use and um that is really my Benchmark

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for anything that is supposed to be simple is if my aunt can do it then it's

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probably simple don't tell her I said that but uh what else do we got here so

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valet settings so I mean telling her open up a browser and type in 192 .16

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8.1.1 and then go to the advanced and then there's no way there's no way

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she'll be able to handle that so this is the kind of thing that she can actually handle so safe web surfing aler see if

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you're about to visit a potentially harmful website here's your Valley name

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and password update or create an easy setup key okay looks like you don't have

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to use the one that's included here's advanced settings what do we got so this

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is for expert use only so stay away this is exactly the kind of thing I would be

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pretty happy for it to tell my aunt before she goes in and messes up with

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things so admin I copied the password aha so now we're going to

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192.168.1.1 I don't have a password on it now or apparently I don't I don't

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know that's odd because it gave me a password to use okay so this takes me to

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how to actually set up sorry about that my memory card filled up uh so this is

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where you can actually control the router the way that more advanced people

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would be able to do it okay so we'll close that close that all right so then

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we'll okay we're finished in here and last but not least let's have a look at

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the parental controls so parental controls password let's make it uh

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oops let's make it Muffin Man five

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okay all right and the secret question will be do you

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know Muffin Man and the answer would be yes

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Okay so we've set that up let's have a look at what parental controls does for

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us okay restrict access on test PC block

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internet access here you got times block sites and appropriate for Block specific

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sites need o and then finish so thank you for checking out my uh my one way of

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doing things actually no you know what let's uh let's do it with the valley

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connector now and see if it's any different all right so when we install

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the Cisco uh valet USB Wi-Fi thing so

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there it is okay we get a similar wizard

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okay no not that not that this and we

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get a setup guide so why don't we try that setup and please wait this may take

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up to 5 minutes okay well I'll be back then well after a couple seconds it

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prompts me uh to tell it whether I have

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an easy setup key which I do but let's pretend for the sake of making

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things more difficult for ourselves that I do

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not after a couple more seconds it comes up with a list of which wireless access

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points there are around me which I can select one and then I can enter the

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password for shiny cheetah okay well I don't remember what

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the setup or what the uh password is and

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uh other than putting in the easy setup key I don't really know of any way that

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I can figure it out at this point but it looks like here basically this is my

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conclusion on the valet the router is the big one so if you get the valet

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connector obviously you are assured that it'll be compatible with the router

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which can be a bit of a problem for wireless devices but the router and the

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easy setup key seems to be where the magic happens so I would definitely

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recommend based on what I've seen so far from The Cisco valet router getting this

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for your less uh well technologically

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inclined relatives or friends and it

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looks like it should be quite a simple way for them to set up not only just

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connecting to the internet but also managing some basic configuration stuff

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like parental controls and guest networks and stuff like that thanks for

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