{"video_id":"lJLXTr8Kg0A","title":"Securifi Almond Touchscreen Wireless Router & Range Extender Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":476,"segments":[{"start_s":7.359,"end_s":13.4,"text":"welcome to my unboxing of the Almond touchscreen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.599,"end_s":17.88,"text":"secury router that uses Wireless end technology in order to achieve its","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.839,"end_s":19.32,"text":"router and its range extendedness so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.88,"end_s":23.599,"text":"what they're going for here is the most intuitive possible way to configure","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.96,"end_s":28.32,"text":"sorry I'll stop that now the most intuitive possible way to configure your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.24,"end_s":30.599,"text":"settings without a PC or a Mac so 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done here so we're going to be taking a closer look at this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":461.44,"end_s":467.24,"text":"on NCIX Tech tips but uh there you go it's the router that you can kind of put","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":465.72,"end_s":471.56,"text":"somewhere and it you know looks kind of nice and yeah I'm sort of sort of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":470.36,"end_s":477.8,"text":"fascinated by it don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":474.919,"end_s":477.8,"text":"video","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing of the Almond touchscreen secury router that uses Wireless end technology in order to achieve its router and its range extendedness so what they're going for here is the most intuitive possible way to configure sorry I'll stop that now the most intuitive possible way to configure your settings without a PC or a Mac so yes the world's first Wireless touchscreen router and it's actually a lot cooler than it even sounds and it sounds pretty cool so I'll get into more of that later secure so you benefit from preconfigured security cool it's fast using 300 megabit per second 802.11 n mimo technology on the 2.4 GHz band connect up to 50 us out of time cool stuff elegant all your info is just a finger tap away so let's open this up and touch on some of the obvious and less obvious advantages so as a router it's more for the less techsavvy crowd I mean that probably goes without saying because I can't imagine you know like the Cisco networking certified dude wanting to configure his router like this that is just not how it works that's not how it's going to happen however for your grandma or your grandpa or your mom or your dad this might be simpler than trying to be on the phone with them me like can you please enter 192.168.0.1 in the browser URL bar and they're like what okay if you like push the thing on the thing that might be easier to explain I mean I haven't used it yet so I can't say for sure but I definitely going to be trying this out included accessories are your power cable okay your Ethernet cable and we've also got a quick start guide so apparently they only needed like one small piece of paper in order to achieve that so almond does a router okay do this w they even it's only four steps and it includes unplugging your old thing very thorough wait for one minute do this wait for one minute do this and follow the onscreen instructions on the right because you can just follow onscreen instructions it has like a screen right on it range extender okay so there's some tips and tricks for where to oh this is hilarious check this out so there's the support number and then under that it says coming soon he so uh sorry sorry sorry so there's some tips for where to locate it so even for techsavvy people I can imagine something like this being awesome for use as a range extender because I don't know if you guys have ever done it before but I have whether it's a powerline range extender or a wireless range extender they're actually kind of a pain to set up because you have to authenticate them you have to follow like the wizard on the disc or you have to figure out how to manually configure it and you got to you know figure out to get your baress security going I couldn't even get the power line one working and I don't know if that was because I'm not using similar power line gear on my network or if maybe I completely misunderstood what the point of the product was but um now we've sort of launched off onto a tangent this should be very easy because you can actually configure everything you need on the touchcreen itself when it comes to setting up a range extender so the outside shell of it is actually quite slick it's follows sort of with the general trend of routers which is to make it glossy which is sort of a shame but um if it was matte then it would be absolutely perfect in every way in terms of aesthetic here's a cool thing as well um no no I'll talk about that later so ventilation is handled passively so it has little feet that it stands on so there's lots of room underneath for air to come up through the unit and then be not passively exhausted from the top um in terms of ports because of its small size you've got your uh your W Port your internet port and then two landan ports that's fine don't worry about it you can always break out to a switch and then run cables to your individual PCS you got your power in as well as your uh your Hardware reset button and then on what would typically be the front there's nothing and then on the real front there is an LCD screen so what's cool about the LCD screen is actually that it has the potential to do things like act as a photo viewer now wait hold on see Slick's giving me a look right now lonus that's totally useless and normally I would say yes that is totally useless however think about it in this context what do you normally do with your router you plug everything into it you kind of bundle it all up and then you like hide it under your desk what does that do to your wireless signal strength what if your router looked nice and could sit up on your desk in a better position for wireless reception that would be a good thing right so there you go not totally crazy and you know I'm not just totally crazy uh so let's get it uh booted up here and just see what we can see so you're going to be exploring with in real time uh what this thing's all about so look at that four different languages I'm going to go with English please wait applying the language wow very responsive touchcreen actually I was expecting to have to like kind of mash on it but uh it's not a super cheap touchcreen or anything like that so they wanted me to say that you know speeds and specs are good but this is more for you know the non- techsavvy people you know so you won't be bothered whenever a password's forgotten so you can you can give this to someone knowing that you're not going to be harassed about basically later ah the wizard so um start wizard Stylus is located at the bottom of your almond no way it comes with a sty oh there it is look at that I didn't even notice bam stylus in case you need it okay so we're going to use it just for the sake of you know argument that we would need it okay how do you want to use it I want to use it as a range extender okay let's see how easy this is okay so look at that that was fast so here's all the available um see you see why Wireless doesn't work in the tech tips room guys because this is how many stupid Wireless things are in I believe it's this one yeah this is how many stupid wireless networks are within range of here there's so much interference that we can't get anything done and I totally like gleaked on the screen there that's disgusting sorry my bad so this one doesn't have any security however I think we can extrapolate based on how easy this process was so far that it's probably pretty similar let me just check my other notes for this video and make sure that I'm not forgetting anything cuz yes I do do notes you know I can't always remember everything so they're going to have a weather app as well which is kind of cool that's coming um so you shouldn't feel the need to to tuck it away so Wireless is internet's disconnected so it gives me some little you know information and whatnot and then I just click finish and then from there oh okay cool so you can configure stuff you can I don't know oh whoops okay hold on you can what do these do apparently nothing okay there's a browser no way oh no that's just uh um the thing with the Diagnostics web admin screen so you can time it oh you can turn it off if you want you can put on a screen lock to protect it web admin to use the web interface point to browser oh cool okay uh add devices status neat wow you can actually do everything on here that's cool let's see if there's more connection statistics firmware upgrades huh hold on a sec guys and I think we're kind of done here so we're going to be taking a closer look at this on NCIX Tech tips but uh there you go it's the router that you can kind of put somewhere and it you know looks kind of nice and yeah I'm sort of sort of fascinated by it don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer video"}