welcome to an unboxing of a product that I think probably like 80% of the people
with a wireless network at home need even if they don't already know that
they need it this is the re1000 wireless
and range extender and now how many times at your house have you gone you
know sort of just out of range of your
wireless network like maybe you're sitting on the patio or maybe you're in
your garage working on something and in
frustration you see that you've got like one bar of Wireless strength and then
you try to transfer a file and it drops out and it doesn't work I mean really
you can't blame the wireless because you put so many obstacles like walls and
cars and small crying children in
between your router and your device and
you're going to run into reception problems so this is from Cisco or link
CIS by Cisco I should say this is a way
to easily increase wireless network coverage throughout your home or
business or wherever you want wireless network coverage even in your car if you
wanted to although it would only work when you're close to your router which
is at home okay home fine so 2.4 GHz
band Ethernet Bridge Advance Security and easy setup The Cisco Advantage
Cutting Edge technology from the networking leader Yep they're pretty undis disputed there best-in-class
security okay award-winning 24/7 customer support and a 1year limited
warranty broad compatibility Works seamlessly with all BGN Wi-Fi devices
cool so I don't even need a Cisco or link CIS router in order to get this to
work flexible placement all you do is plug into a wall outlet or desktop
placement options to optimize the okay cool uh easy setup we've talked about
that push button security for Wi-Fi protected setup WPS fast Ethernet
built-in and quality of service devillers smooth video and gaming
performance awesome so here's a little diagram but let's talk about the diagram
after oh hold on ideal for enjoying added in home Mobility surfing the web
gaming and chatting online in hard to- reach areas and finally easily
connecting to an internet Ready TV or Blu-ray player so let's open it
up unboxing quickly by lonus Tech tips
okay so we find a
bracket we find a power
cord oh and it dropped okay got it nice
long power cord look at this it's approximately one linest armspan in
length and then we have an Ethernet
cable which I will check the length for you as well with my convenient and easy
to replicate units of measurement let's see what shall I use
as a unit of measurement today maybe I'll
use H NC lanyard
okay approximately how many NC lanyards long is this looks like about 3 and half
ncx lanyards in length for that particular Ethernet cable also known as
6 ft no 4T okay I'm not even going to
try and guess in real units of measurement not that I really consider
imperial units to be real units of measurement but you know that's a whole
other argument um here we have the
actual Wireless and range extender unit
itself you got a little illuminated Cisco logo right about there you've got
uh the two mounting options that they do talk about so the one is you take this
guy right here you throw it right
here there you go and then you are
plugging that into the wall and that's your range extender there's your WPS
OneTouch setup button there's your reset switch if you need to do a hard reset on
the bottom of the unit there is your 10100 fast Ethernet port and
if you do not want to use that option you can also throw this guy on
here there you go and then you can plug in the power cord and that might get you
that little bit of extra reach maybe you want to like plug it in at the bottom
and then put it up on like a window sill so that you get better range in your backyard now before we go any further on
this because I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it no no
there's some documentation so there's a setup CD so you're going to want to
actually you know might want to use this just because uh it's going to make life
a little bit easier in terms of configuration for this guy uh avoid
placing the extender ah here tips for successful setup so this is what I was
just about to talk to or talk about
avoid placing the extender or Associated rou or access point near metal objects
reflective surfaces and masonry walls okay place the extender close to the
router or access point during initial setup then move the extender to its
final location after setup and for the best positioning of your extender tested
in multiple locations now what Cisco hasn't mentioned or linkis or Cisco I
don't know one of the two lynxis what lynxis hasn't mentioned about this
product is that it's imperative that you do not place it where the reception is
bad because if you take this device and
let's say you want to have access in the garden and you put it in the garden
thinking that now it's going to like create a wireless signal doesn't work
that way you have this is Wireless
client so you have to put this where it's going to get good reception rather
than where it has bad reception already so I'm going to diagram this out for you
guys and I'm going to like find a pen
somewhere hold on hold on going to go find a pen and
the Slick over there is going to have a
closer look at uh the access point which is fascinating
okay so here's your house pardon my terrible drawing that's your house uh
this is your garage with your car in it
oh wow okay there you go with your car in it
and then on the second floor you have your wireless
router see that represents a wireless router that little box right there okay
so let's say this is the range of your wireless
router and you're in the garage and you're like rage face you know like
ah this kind of face okay because you can't quite reach so instead of putting
your extender right here where it's also
not going to have reception you want to throw your extender like over here like
you know maybe at a window here or something like that so basically what
you're doing is you're taking that range and you're making it just a little bit
bigger that's the point so there you go
thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look and positioning guide on
the re1000 from Cisco link this by Cisco
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