welcome to an unboxing of a product that um is not a retail product so like
there's no proper packaging inside but I cannot emphasize enough that if you buy
a dlink router it will not come with no packaging inside inside the box but I
want to talk about the dhp 1320 and what
is special about this part particular
router this uses a Qualcomm chipset that
allows not only wired and wireless
operation but also Powerline operation
built right into the router using the and I can never remember this number the
1 1905.1 standard so what that means is
that just by installing this router in your home you have the flexibility to
use either a wired connection to say the computers that are in the same room or
that you can easily run a wire to wireless to your mobile devices and then
power line to things like televisions in the future that adopt this standard um
things like just regular Powerline adapters even from other brands right
now interoperability between Brands is something that Powerline doesn't
really uh doesn't really feature so
that's something that we're going to have due to due to this new standard and
uh so let's let's talk about the router a little bit here so this is uh okay
sorry the dhp 1320 and it's got a a
little note here a dhp 306 AV or a w306
AV Adapter is required to create a powerline network but the one that I'm
going to be demoing when I do my NCI Tech tips is going to be from a completely different brand just to
emphasize that as long as the device complies to this standard it is going to
work so okay Dink Green Power think green it's designed to conserve energy
all that good stuff so that's kind of neat so power saving by link status
power saving by cable length so it doesn't use more power to transmit a
signal than it has to power saving by wireless land scheduling and an onoff
button that you can use to turn it off when it's not in use whole home coverage
with no unsightly cables yes I if you
guys have watched my videos a fair bit you know that I'm a huge advocate of
power line I love power line and what this does is it actually makes it even
better so the convenience of Wi-Fi so
this is a Wi-Fi N300 Router and then on the back okay you know what let's just
start looking at it here we go this is the router itself and I apologize for it
being beat up this is like uh an eval sample that sort of made the rounds
before it's uh before it's gotten to me for me to have a look at and see if I'm
as impressed once I actually try it as I am when I hear about the initial
technology so you guys will have to subscribe to my ncixcom channel if you
want to see that video where we're actually going to try it out I can tell you now it's pretty heavy for a router
we got some ventilation holes on the front remember Powerline adapters often
get quite warm and that's one of the reasons they're often positioned away
from the wall so I can see why yeah you've got vent holes on the bottom vent
holes on the side vent holes on the front because all of that Powerline
technology is now in here as well as a router a switch and a wireless access
point so there's a whole lot of Technology going on in here we have a
WPS button as well as a yeah there's no manual so I'm going to have to rely on
someone to post a comment and tell me what that one does uh on the back we
have three Lan ports a Wan Port so instead of having a five port switch
this has a four port switch built into it we can actually put it in AP mode or
router mode that is a very handy little button to have and that's one of the
cool things about this particular standard is that it also allows you to
use devices whether they're little Powerline access points or whether
they're Wireless extenders very very easily with very minimal setup so that's
what's going to allow you if one device is not enough to cover your home you can
actually set up repeaters in order to make sure that with a couple of devices
you can get full coverage so I guess that's one of the reasons they might
want you to be able to put this in Access point mode so you can just buy another one plug it into an existing
power line connection uh or rather right here right power line and then use it as
an AP got a reset switch USB for storage
the onoff switch is right there and AC in so the AC in check this out and a a
router that doesn't use a power brick
that's one of the other reasons it's heavy because it has an internal power
supply because that power supply is not only powering the device but also acting
as a powerline network so if you don't understand how powerline network works
it uses the cables in your walls the wires in your walls to transmit data as
well as electricity rather than using an Ethernet cable if something's far away
it can actually go through your circuit breaker and access your entire house
I've even used it in a warehouse before that was a few thousand square feet away
from where I had my uh my actual router and one power line adapter and then I
used a notebook way way way far away and it still worked just fine so that's the
key difference here instead of needing an Ethernet cable to a power line
adapter to an extension cable to the wall now your router has already made
your entire home network power line ready just by plugging it in so thank
you for checking out my little video about I guess it was sort of about the
dhp 1320 but what it's really about is the see I forget the number again the
1905.1 standard which is going to allow us to more easily Network our homes
using power line