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welcome to my unboxing of the Almond touchscreen

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secury router that uses Wireless end technology in order to achieve its

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router and its range extendedness so

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what they're going for here is the most intuitive possible way to configure

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sorry I'll stop that now the most intuitive possible way to configure your

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settings without a PC or a Mac so yes

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the world's first Wireless touchscreen router and it's

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actually a lot cooler than it even sounds and it sounds pretty cool so I'll

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get into more of that later secure so you benefit from preconfigured security

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cool it's fast using 300 megabit per second 802.11 n mimo technology on the

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2.4 GHz band connect up to 50 us out of time cool stuff elegant all your info is

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just a finger tap away so let's open this up and touch on some of the obvious

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and less obvious advantages so as a

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router it's more for the less techsavvy crowd I mean that probably goes without

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saying because I can't imagine you know

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like the Cisco networking certified dude

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wanting to configure his router like this that is just not how it works

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that's not how it's going to happen however for your grandma or your grandpa

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or your mom or your dad this might be simpler than trying to be on the phone

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with them me like can you please enter

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192.168.0.1 in the browser URL bar and

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they're like

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what okay if you like push the thing on the thing that might be easier to

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explain I mean I haven't used it yet so I can't say for sure but I definitely

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going to be trying this out included accessories are your power cable okay

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your Ethernet cable and we've also got a quick start guide so apparently they

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only needed like one small piece of paper in order to achieve that so almond

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does a router okay do this w they even it's

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only four steps and it includes unplugging your old thing very thorough

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wait for one minute do this wait for one minute do this and follow the onscreen

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instructions on the right because you can just follow onscreen instructions it has like a screen right on it range

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extender okay so there's some tips and tricks for where to oh this is hilarious

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check this out so there's the support number and then under that it says

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coming soon he so uh sorry sorry sorry so there's

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some tips for where to locate it so even for techsavvy people I can imagine

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something like this being awesome for

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use as a range extender because I don't know if you guys have ever done it

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before but I have whether it's a powerline range extender or a wireless

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range extender they're actually kind of a pain to set up because you have to

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authenticate them you have to follow like the wizard on the disc or you have

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to figure out how to manually configure it and you got to you know figure out to

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get your baress security going I couldn't even get the power line one working and I don't know if that was

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because I'm not using similar power line gear on my network or if maybe I

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completely misunderstood what the point of the product was but um now we've sort

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of launched off onto a tangent this should be very easy because you can

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actually configure everything you need on the touchcreen itself when it comes

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to setting up a range extender so the outside shell of it is actually quite

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slick it's follows sort of with the general trend of routers which is to

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make it glossy which is sort of a shame but um if it was matte then it would be

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absolutely perfect in every way in terms of aesthetic here's a cool thing as well

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um no no I'll talk about that later so ventilation is handled passively so it

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has little feet that it stands on so there's lots of room underneath for air

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to come up through the unit and then be not passively exhausted from the top um

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in terms of ports because of its small size you've got your uh your W Port your

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internet port and then two landan ports that's fine don't worry about it you can

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always break out to a switch and then run cables to your individual PCS you

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got your power in as well as your uh your Hardware reset button

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and then on what would typically be the front there's nothing and then on the real front there is an LCD screen so

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what's cool about the LCD screen is actually that it has the potential to do

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things like act as a photo viewer now wait hold on see Slick's

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giving me a look right now lonus that's totally useless and normally I would say

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yes that is totally useless however think about it in this context what do

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you normally do with your router you plug everything

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into it you kind of bundle it all up and then you like hide it under your desk

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what does that do to your wireless signal strength what if your router looked nice

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and could sit up on your desk in a better position for wireless reception

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that would be a good thing right so there you go not totally crazy and you

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know I'm not just totally crazy uh so

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let's get it uh booted up here and just see what we can see so you're going to

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be exploring with in real time uh what this thing's all about so look at that

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four different languages I'm going to go with English please wait applying the

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language wow very responsive touchcreen actually I was expecting to have to like

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kind of mash on it but uh it's not a

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super cheap touchcreen or anything like that so they wanted me to say that you

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know speeds and specs are good but this is more for you know the non- techsavvy

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people you know so you won't be bothered whenever a password's forgotten so you

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can you can give this to someone knowing that you're not going to be harassed

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about basically later ah the wizard so

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um start wizard Stylus is located at the bottom of your almond no way it comes

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with a sty oh there it is look at that I didn't even

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notice bam stylus in case you need it

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okay so we're going to use it just for the sake of you know argument that we

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would need it okay how do you want to use it I want to use it as a range

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extender okay let's see how easy this is

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okay so look at that that was fast so here's all the available

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um see you see why Wireless doesn't work in the tech tips room guys because this

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is how many stupid Wireless things are

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in I believe it's this one yeah this is how many stupid wireless networks are

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within range of here there's so much interference that we can't get anything

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done and I totally like gleaked on the screen there that's

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disgusting sorry my bad so this one doesn't have any

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security however I think we can extrapolate based on how easy this

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process was so far that it's probably pretty similar let me just check my

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other notes for this video and make sure that I'm not forgetting anything cuz yes

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I do do notes you know I can't always remember everything so they're going to

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have a weather app as well which is kind of cool that's coming um so you

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shouldn't feel the need to to tuck it away so Wireless is internet's

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disconnected so it gives me some little you know information and whatnot and

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then I just click finish and then from there oh okay cool so you can configure

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stuff you can I don't know oh whoops

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okay hold on you can what do these do

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apparently nothing okay there's a browser no way oh no that's just uh um

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the thing with the Diagnostics web admin

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screen so you can time it oh you can

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turn it off if you want you can put on a screen lock to protect it web admin to

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use the web interface point to browser oh cool okay uh add devices status neat

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wow you can actually do everything on here that's cool let's see if there's

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more connection statistics firmware

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upgrades huh hold on a sec guys and I

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think we're kind of done here so we're going to be taking a closer look at this

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on NCIX Tech tips but uh there you go it's the router that you can kind of put

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somewhere and it you know looks kind of nice and yeah I'm sort of sort of

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