Linksys EA2700 App Enabled Wireless N Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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968 words · ~4 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of a new router from lynus by Cisco this is the lynxis
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EA 2700 and apparently the packaging is shiny so slick wants me to get the
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plastic off of it pretty quickly here which I'm struggling to do um the most
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noteworthy thing about this guy is pretty self-explanatory once you look at
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the packaging app enabled so we're going to go in to what this means a little bit
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more as soon as we see this box right here app for iOS and Android devices to
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manage your home network so basically what this means is this and its bigger
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siblings the ea3500 and the
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ea4500 are capable of being managed remotely using an app on your smartphone
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or your tablet device so that means that if uh you know junior is working on a
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homework assignment and the babysitter calls and says blah blah blah the
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internet um parental you know protection
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turned off the internet and he still needs to do something for another half hour you can actually you know take you
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know s sit aside at your dinner go like this and adjust the parental settings on
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your router from the table so uh you know make sure you know everyone's cool
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with it before you go and whip out your cell phone and be like yeah don't worry guys I'm just you know changing my
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router but uh as long as people don't find it rude then you can do it so it's
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a Wi-Fi home base I think what they mean is wireless access point and router and
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switch which is all the stuff that's in here dual band N600 router with gigabits
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so wow gigabit ports even on the lower end stuff now and dual band and6 600
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which means up to 300 plus 300 megabit per second speeds with 2.4 and 5 GHz
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dual band capability so remember guys 5 GHz has lesser range than 2.4 GHz but
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also significantly less interference because it's used a lot less extended
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range gigabit ports parental controls and easy setup easy setup really is a
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selling point for these linky routers because if you guys have seen the
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episode that we did on um I don't
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remember what it was called but it's on my NC Tech tips channel it's like link
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sis advantage or something like that we show how easy the setup process is um
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and it yeah it's pretty compelling so if you are not a networking expert or more
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importantly if you are a networking expert uh because you're watching this
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channel so you probably know a thing or two but you're buying a router for
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someone who is not a networking expert say for example you know your mom who
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just got an iPad like my mom just got an iPad and you know now all of a sudden
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she needs Wireless and you're like well
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okay but you want to put in something that's simple enough that not only can
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she use it but if she's having trouble using it all you got to do is whip out
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the smartphone be like yeah I fixed it for you don't worry about it Mom I don't
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have to drive an hour to go to your house to fix it uh can you tell I've done this before
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okay so here's the router unit itself it looks just like their last generation
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products so pretty Sleek pretty simple
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uh internal antenna not a big fan wish they had an external antenna uh we've
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got a heat sink going on in there we got some other doohickeys going on in there
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we got little feet that are going to give it a little bit of ventilation so you put it down holds it up a little bit
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off the surface because you can see these are passive intakes and passive
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exhaust all the way around the outside of the unit there's your reset button
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right there and uh can these be like
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popped out or something for like wall
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mounting apparently not okay on the back of the unit we find
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four gig uh gigabit Ethernet ports one internet port so that's the one that you
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plug into your modem as well as a WPS button power indicator and a power plug
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in terms of included accessories there's not a whole lot there's your power plug
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as well as one Ethernet cable it is
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probably Cat 5 cat 5e rather and finally
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in the a series CD start here run the CD first this is one of the few instances
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where if you're not a networking Guru kind of guy um or you know you buy it
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for someone and you don't want to walk them through every step of it you just
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say put in the CD it'll walk you through it and they should be able to figure it
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out no problem so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the EA
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2700 dual band router which is app enabled don't forget to subscribe col's
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Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys we
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actually missed a couple things so simultaneous dual band this is a
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concurrent dual band and wireless end router uh so that is up to 300 plus 300
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megabits per second you get the advantages of 5 GHz and the advantages
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of 2.4 GHz with expanded coverage and reliability and it includes Advanced
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security quality of service and finally it is IPv6 enabled