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learn more welcome to what'll be a pretty quick and straight forward unboxing of the lynus ea6500 this is
what they're calling a Smart Wi-Fi router and it runs at ac750 so it's dual
band which means 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and
remember when they spec these maximum throughputs they're actually stacking
the total combined throughput on the multiple bands and across multiple
Technologies so it's actually ac300 or 1.3 gbit and
n450 now they're also calling it a Smart Wi-Fi router which basically means it's
got a bunch of different features including y Smart Wi-Fi the ability to
utilize apps to customize your Wi-Fi home get anywhere access to your network
enable intelligent media prioritization so some of these features are great some
of them are not necessarily as great the ea4 500 with what they called at that
time uh Cisco Cloud connect was um I I
didn't end up using those features and I instead used the more barebones firmware
but what I liked about the ea4500 is it was extremely fast extremely powerful
and didn't rely any fancy configurations in order to really get awesome
performance out of it compared to some of the other routers that we tried so we
actually have quite a few of those deployed so why are we upgrading to the
ea6500 you might ask and the answer is pretty straightforward so number one is
that it uses Wireless AC so if you have any devices that are able to leverage AC
for example I have an HTC1 you will
potentially see some speed benefit there number two is the fact that it's
simultaneous dual band so 2.4 and 5 GHz
means that you have the potential for maximum range as well as maximum
throughput and we have some content coming very soon on NVIDIA Shield which
relies on a very strong Wireless signal in order to stream HD video which is
essentially your game so in order to stream HD games from your computer to
your handheld device so we wanted something that was really beefy enough
so we asked lynxis to go ahead and send one of these over to us in terms of
accessories you get a huge power brick I
mean this thing's uh this I mean I guess this is in line with what I already knew
about AC and if you look at any of the actually decent AC add-in cards such as
the one from ASUS which has a massive heat sink on it and like antennas that
come out like this um this is not power
sipping hardware and so we're not and then the kind of implementation in here
is not the same as what you might find in a phone so don't expect to see 1.3
gigabit throughput to your phone but it is a significant improvement over
Wireless nend we also get an Ethernet cable as well as a setup CD and last but
not least we get the router itself which has that same kind of not like the older
UFO shape where they were super glossy but it has the same kind of shape as the
ea4500 except that it is significantly larger
and has more ventilation which is also in line with that larger power adapter
so we find ventilation holes here along the bottom where we expect air to be
passively drawn in there's four rubber feet here here here and here as well and
this was missing from the ea4500 glad to see they added this uh wall mounts right
here so you can go ahead and put a couple Nails on the wall and hang it off that then all along the sides of the
device side front and other side
there goes the Box uh we find more ventilation holes and then again in the
top here here and here on the back we find what lynis is calling and this
should really be a cardinal sin uh rebranding WPS I think they're calling
it simple tap technology TM for easy setup that is a WPS button right there
so it allows you to without entering any security Keys connect this to other
devices you've also got an integrated five port switch four of which are
normal ports and one of which is intended as a Wan Port so that's where
you'll plug your Broadband modem into and then you've got a couple of USB
ports for storage so if you don't have something like a dedicated Nas you can
add storage to this simply by plugging things in there there's often support
for things like printers as well a hardware reset button as well as power
input so the last things that I should probably mention about this are the high
powerered amplifier for ultimate range remember guys 5 GHz routers do not
necessarily have the same kind of range as 2.4 GHz routers it is inherently a
shorter range technology but what's good about it is there's less potential for
interference whether it's from your cordless phone or whether it's from
other wireless networks around you from people who haven't upgraded to 5 GHz or
microwaves or whatever else so you might get more effective range out of it and
then they also have lots of parental controls and I personally find their firmware easy to use but not just easy
to use but quicker to use because you don't have to reboot your router in
order to apply any changes which is something that maybe people using
aftermarket firmwares take for granted but for people who don't want to go down
that route when I compare this to something like dink's latest and
greatest AC router which requires a 300C
cool down when you upgrade the firmware and I think a 100 or 90 second cool down
when you apply any changes this is much faster when you're trying to diagnose uh
any kind of random Network issue thank you for checking out my unboxing and
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