welcome to my unboxing of a new router from lynus by Cisco this is the lynxis
EA 2700 and apparently the packaging is shiny so slick wants me to get the
plastic off of it pretty quickly here which I'm struggling to do um the most
noteworthy thing about this guy is pretty self-explanatory once you look at
the packaging app enabled so we're going to go in to what this means a little bit
more as soon as we see this box right here app for iOS and Android devices to
manage your home network so basically what this means is this and its bigger
siblings the ea3500 and the
ea4500 are capable of being managed remotely using an app on your smartphone
or your tablet device so that means that if uh you know junior is working on a
homework assignment and the babysitter calls and says blah blah blah the
internet um parental you know protection
turned off the internet and he still needs to do something for another half hour you can actually you know take you
know s sit aside at your dinner go like this and adjust the parental settings on
your router from the table so uh you know make sure you know everyone's cool
with it before you go and whip out your cell phone and be like yeah don't worry guys I'm just you know changing my
router but uh as long as people don't find it rude then you can do it so it's
a Wi-Fi home base I think what they mean is wireless access point and router and
switch which is all the stuff that's in here dual band N600 router with gigabits
so wow gigabit ports even on the lower end stuff now and dual band and6 600
which means up to 300 plus 300 megabit per second speeds with 2.4 and 5 GHz
dual band capability so remember guys 5 GHz has lesser range than 2.4 GHz but
also significantly less interference because it's used a lot less extended
range gigabit ports parental controls and easy setup easy setup really is a
selling point for these linky routers because if you guys have seen the
episode that we did on um I don't
remember what it was called but it's on my NC Tech tips channel it's like link
sis advantage or something like that we show how easy the setup process is um
and it yeah it's pretty compelling so if you are not a networking expert or more
importantly if you are a networking expert uh because you're watching this
channel so you probably know a thing or two but you're buying a router for
someone who is not a networking expert say for example you know your mom who
just got an iPad like my mom just got an iPad and you know now all of a sudden
she needs Wireless and you're like well
okay but you want to put in something that's simple enough that not only can
she use it but if she's having trouble using it all you got to do is whip out
the smartphone be like yeah I fixed it for you don't worry about it Mom I don't
have to drive an hour to go to your house to fix it uh can you tell I've done this before
okay so here's the router unit itself it looks just like their last generation
products so pretty Sleek pretty simple
uh internal antenna not a big fan wish they had an external antenna uh we've
got a heat sink going on in there we got some other doohickeys going on in there
we got little feet that are going to give it a little bit of ventilation so you put it down holds it up a little bit
off the surface because you can see these are passive intakes and passive
exhaust all the way around the outside of the unit there's your reset button
right there and uh can these be like
popped out or something for like wall
mounting apparently not okay on the back of the unit we find
four gig uh gigabit Ethernet ports one internet port so that's the one that you
plug into your modem as well as a WPS button power indicator and a power plug
in terms of included accessories there's not a whole lot there's your power plug
as well as one Ethernet cable it is
probably Cat 5 cat 5e rather and finally
in the a series CD start here run the CD first this is one of the few instances
where if you're not a networking Guru kind of guy um or you know you buy it
for someone and you don't want to walk them through every step of it you just
say put in the CD it'll walk you through it and they should be able to figure it
out no problem so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the EA
2700 dual band router which is app enabled don't forget to subscribe col's
Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys we
actually missed a couple things so simultaneous dual band this is a
concurrent dual band and wireless end router uh so that is up to 300 plus 300
megabits per second you get the advantages of 5 GHz and the advantages
of 2.4 GHz with expanded coverage and reliability and it includes Advanced
security quality of service and finally it is IPv6 enabled