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for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and

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Western Digital. Links is back baby. They got acquired by Belin about 9

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months ago and it only took them this long to say okay look the team that

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worked on the original WRT 54G and the

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54GL was like okay look we want to go back to that. We want to make that

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thing, but we want to make it like better and modern because there's still

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people using that thing and it's only wireless G for crying out loud. It's not

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like I mean, who even has any wireless G clients left anymore? So, this, my

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friends, is the updated one. This is the granddaddy of home wireless routers. And

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to be clear, guys, when I say granddaddy, I mean expensive granddaddy.

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It's going to come in at around $300, but it has technology to spare. So, it's

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got a 1.2 GHz CPU. It has what there

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some enterprisegrade features on it. So to go along with the detachable

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antennas, yes, we've gone away from that whole Cisco link integrated antennas.

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For whatever reason, they did that. So you have detachable antennas, so you can

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put aftermarket ones on and it also has antenna diversity, which allows them to

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auto sense which ones are best in terms of connectivity and range for a

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particular client and use the three that are going to work best. In their Labs,

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they've seen up to 30% improvements. Now, in terms of raw spec, we've got

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four gigabit Ethernet ports for LAN, and then an additional one for WAN, an ESA

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port, which is a very unique addition, one USB 3 port, one USB 2 port, a

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cooling fan. Remember, there's a 1.2 GHz CPU inside, and in addition to all that,

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the the bloody thing's going to weigh

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5B. 5 lb. So while it's expensive, it is

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also going to have that same team or a lot of the same team that worked on the

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original worked on this and they have made the decision those same people who

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made that decision in the first place to keep things open. So if you don't like

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the firmware that Lynxys is running, okay? So like you can use like you know

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uh the stock firmware, cloud firmware or you can configure it manually, they

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don't care anymore or the level of not caring goes beyond that you can install

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whatever firmware you want whether it's you know open WRT or DD-WRT or tomato or

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whatever those guys are going to be fully able to develop for this router.

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Although to be clear I was expecting this router to be the most impressive

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thing in the booth. you know, it's going to be like5 when they ship it and it's

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like got four antennas on it and stuff, but this ended up being the most impressive thing in the booth. Like, is

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this is this an homage to South Park? Like the episode where they they go and

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they turn the internet back on because it's absolutely fantastic. That's how

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iconic the WRT 54G was is even in that

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South Park episode to turn the entire internet on and off, it appeared to all

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run off of a single one of those routers. And I I hope it's a reference.

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If it's not, then it's still fantastic. Guys, don't miss any of our coverage

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