today I have a product that might not be that interesting for the home users but
if you work in a small business or if you own your own small business this
should be pretty relevant so this is the rv110w from Cisco for small business it
offers simple secure connectivity for small office and home office that
enables faster file transfer using high-speed Wireless technology
802.11n so all that basically means so far as it's a router and it's 802.11n
it's a wireless end router for small business okay let's keep going you can
access files on your business Network securely while you're away from the office so by using ipack tunnels using
Cisco quick VPN or the quick VPN client
you can actually support up to five remote workers using this particular
router so that's kind of cool you can also allow guests to access the internet
securely now I've seen the setups on some of Cisco routers including the
valet where they show you how to set up your guest wireless network it's very
intuitive and this one unlike some business class routers actually uses an
intuitive easy interface so that's another thing that's kind of cool here
we go let's see what they have to say for themselves on the side that's the package contents we'll get to that when
we open the package and here is a little map of where this fits into your network
so this is a wireless n VPN firewall so
basically what they're trying to say is that through the internet through the
VPN tunnel you can have remote workers that are securely able to to access your
work by bypassing the firewall that is built into the router that keeps out
your malicious software attack so that's what this particular diagram means from
here it can go out to your IP phone your network storage your video cameras your
wireless printers Wireless laptops whatever else the case may be it uses
fast Ethernet ports so you've got a four port Hub that's built in Wireless end
for wireless and let's see what else they've got on the back here so secure
remote access using ipvpn technology okay we talked about that already and it
is ip6 enabl to help feature proof your network easy to install and use this
we've all talked about so far as well terms of specifications I actually have
a better sheet than this one so we can get into that a little bit after let's
get it opened up and find out what you get with the rv110w first you get a
readme first disc next you get a quick start guide in
color showing you where to plug things in all right next you get the wireless
firewall unit itself so take that guy
out we got two antennas on there so I'll show you I'll show you this in detail a
little bit after we get a power adapter
pretty typical standard Fair all right and finally we get a single Ethernet
cable so if you already have a modem then this will be that additional one
that you'll need in order to connect the firewall to the modem so let's have a
look at the unit itself okay we've got a Cisco logo on the front you want to come
in a little bit closer at all or yeah okay we got a Cisco logo on the front
power power LED we've got a WPS setup button so that's really handy to have if
you have other WPS supporting devices internet uh LED we've got a wireless LED
uh Lan LEDs for the four different ports
okay on the side we've got some ventilation holes as well as a Kensington lock remember these are small
business SKS so these are not uh necessarily cheap this guy is in the mid
100 some odd range so yes it's an expensive wireless router but it does
have technology built in that is not
for consumers it's for businesses we've got a reset switch we've got the 4100
fast Ethernet ports the one100 W Port so
this guy is capable of delivering up to 80 megabit per second between the W and
the Lan ports so that's the hardware that we have inside we've also got a
power button as well as our power input and the two built-in antennas so those
are built in on the other side we find more ventilation holes on the bottom
we've got the little wall mount clips as well as some rubber feet so it doesn't
move around and finally on the top we find a Cisco logo so this guy compared
to something like its bigger brother the rv220w which I'll get to after supports
a very basic number of Ip set connections so only five remote workers
it has less thorough put between the W
and the Lan ports so this guy right here has a gigabit W port and is capable of
delivering up to 800 megabit per second
whereas this guy is only 80 megabit per second okay and then finally you don't
have have support for sslvpn thorough put so and there's also no cloud-based
web protection what you also do get that you don't get with a consumer based
solution though if you're just using consumer routers in your business right
now is you get uh one year of phone tech
support with Cisco and a three-year warranty on it very few consumer routers
are going to come with that much warranty and that much support so thank
you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the RV 110w don't forget to
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videos sorry guys one key feature I missed is that it allows you to create
separate virtual networks so up to four of them you can divide either your wired
or wireless networks into four zones so
that they can or cannot have access to each other so that's one way that you
can keep your files secure and then obviously I did mention the guest Wi-Fi
before that one would not have access to any of your business files and it would
just be a straight internet connection for you know someone visiting your
company who wants to sit and get some work done while they wait or whatever
else the case may be