welcome to my unboxing of the Cisco small business rv220w this is a wireless
end network security firewall which basically means that it is a highly
secure and high performance High reliability it has a lifetime warranty
okay router with a firewall for small
business so why don't we go ahead and have a look at what's included with it first first and then we'll talk about it
a little more and maybe do some quick comparisons to its little little brother
the rv10 W so the first thing we find is
a read this first disc you might want to
read that first okay next we have a quick start
guide shows you how to mount it to the wall and plug some cables into it these
are all good things next we have a g the
deage rapid so that would be in French next we have the firewall unit itself
I'm going to go ahead and pull that out for now and then we'll see what other
accessories we can find in the eco-friendly packaging by the way very
nice appreciate that always helps when everyone's doing
their part to save the environment and I mean this actually is
um often times more expensive to produce
than a foam based insert because someone has to actually fold this believe it or
not so uh so yeah getting the dyes made
up for uh for the packaging for something like this is not uh not cheap
it does cost money to be eco-friendly this thing feels like a tank holy smokes
all right so the rv220w let's have a look at the unit itself before we talk
about what makes it special so I'm going to throw these antennas on here on the
back comes with two antennas these are user replaceable so you could swap them
out for other antennas should you desire
okay so the front of the unit here we have a power LED we have a diagnostic we
have a demilitarized zone indicator we have a wireless indicator we've also got
indicators for the speed of the various land ports so these go up to gigabit and
the W Port is also gigabit what part of what makes this guy special is it is
capable according to Cisco's spec of delivering up to 800 megabit per second
thorough put between the W and the landan ports so what that means is you
could have an internet connection that is almost gigabit down and you would be
able to fully almost fully utilize it
using a router such as this one we've got some ventilation holes on this side
we've got some ventilation holes on the other side here on the bottom we find
some rubber non-slip feet as well as options to mount it on the wall either
this way or this way whatever you should desire and then on the back we find a
power switch our power input which did I not even show you the power adapter and
the Ethernet cable it comes with sorry about that guys there they are our four Lan ports so as I mentioned
before gigabit and our gigabit Lan port as well as a hard reset button now this
guy also has 802.11 uh 2.4 GHz 5 GHz dual band
wireless n so you can obviously use it
for wireless although the the performance you're going to get out of this is going to be predominantly wired
because it is a gigabit router but if you are using Wireless in your office it
can be handy to have that option as well and then let's talk a little bit about
some of the other features that it has that make it
neat so so the rv220w because it's for
business and every business needs reliability is all about security and
reliability you do not want downtime so between the Cisco Forum where which is
an online support Community for small businesses to come together and talk to
other Cisco customers and partners uh you can get support that way you also
have support directly from Cisco on a product like this and compared to its
little brother you have the same security features including hybrid VPN
with SSL and IP set capabilities but more so so for example where the rv110w
supports only five IP set connections
this little guy well little guy shouldn't really say it's a little guy it weighs like a couple pounds actually
supports 25 connections and it also
has um as I mentioned before a limited lifetime warranty whereas its little
brother at about a third of the price only has a 3-year warranty and I
shouldn't really say only because most consumer routers only come with oneyear
warranties so thank you for checking out out my first look at the rv220w don't
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