today I have the lynus e3200 high performance dual band and router so dual
band is mostly useful in scenarios where you have a lot
of wireless networks lying around and there's actually oh you know what I'll
be back in a minute okay guys so here I have a pretty cool little app called
Wi-Fi analyzer this is an Android app so I want to explain why dual B and is
often necessary so if there are a lot of wireless networks in your area then you
can definitely benefit from Dual Band so check this out this particular app only
analyzes the 2.4 GHz range and you can see that where I live there's actually
only a couple of Wi-Fi networks so you
can see these two curves are centered over Channel 6 so that means that both
the cornerhouse 2 which is my Wi-Fi and Tellis whatever this is which is I guess
a neighbor are are both running off of Channel 6 so what you can do to get away
to get the best P performance is to take your Wi-Fi network and put it on maybe
Channel 11 or 12 which will get you away
from interference and incidentally that one's also some Wi-Fi network called
Library so what happens is once this starts to get really crowded with
different Wi-Fi networks running on the same channels performance can be
affected so that is when it might be
useful there we go put that away for now to get a dualband router so what you
want to do is you want to configure your router then and you'll have to make sure
that you have dual band compatible adapters and devices but you want to
configure your router to run in the 5 gz
band so what that means is you can remove yourself from all that
interference that's occurring on the 2.4 GHz band and get the best possible
performance out of your router so inherently 5 GHz does not perform better
than 2.4 GHz but in a scenario let's say
you live in an apartment building or in a dense densely populated area in a
scenario where lots of the 2.4 GHz band is already taken up with other traffic
you can get away from it and you can get the True Performance that you are trying
to achieve now this is not a concurrent dual band router concurrent dual band
means you can take those both of those channels and you can run them send and
receive data on both of them at the same time and get a performance boost that way this is more of like a a an a which
which one you want to use so 300 plus 300 megabit speed that is on both of the
available bands uh Superior range speed boost gbit ports a USB port that's very
cool to have included as well as an H it's hd3d ready that basically means
it's fast parental controls and easy setup this is a big one because linkis
routers are out of all of the ones that I have seen oh hold on give me a sec
guys cuz out of all the routers that I've encountered lyus ones are the
easiest to set up things like parental controls and guest networks and things
like that now I made a mistake this is a dualband concurrent router so that means
the scenario I gave you guys where you want to get away from interference that
is still true but the scenario I gave you guys where you want to use both
bands to send and receive data at the same time for performance boost that
does apply to this router so let's have a look at the back and see if there's
anything else there you go simultaneous dual band double the network bandwidth
to avoid interference and Max and maximize th throughput so that's a
shorter way of saying that long story that I gave you okay fast data transfer
rates enhanced mimo antenna array so like uh all of the recent linkis
products it has an internal antenna array but it does support multiple in
multiple out that is mimo okay speed boost plus yeah yeah signal strength
across greater distances all of this I think we've pretty much covered so far
gigabit Ethernet are import are included this is something that I would consider
an essential feature for any modern router because if you are using the
wired connections which are here then you're going to want to achieve the best
speed possible out of them in 1000 just doesn't cut it anymore we're getting
internet plans that are getting close to 100 megabit per second so want your
internal network if you're transferring large files watching HD videos over the
network whatever the case may be to definitely be gigabit so on the back
we've got our USB port which supports storage so you can uh set up a storage
device on there for your home network as well as for remote access gigabit
Ethernet ports times four as well as your Wan Port your WPS so that is your
one but OneTouch Wireless setup your power indicator and your 12vt input on
the sides you see ventilation holes so these are just for p passive cooling you
can actually see can you see those heat sinks in there yeah you can so you can
see the heat sinks in there so those are just going to be passively cooled from
air coming up through the bottom of the unit and then coming out the top of it
you also have included uh an AC
adapter one network cable as well as a lyus eer setup CD um this is one of the
cases where I actually kind of do recommend running the CD especially if
you're not experienced setting up routers it can be kind of Handy it just walks you through it it takes you to the
correct IP right off the bat and then walks you through the setup wizard
so I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing and
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