Linksys AE2500 USB Wireless N Adapter Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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so today guys I have a bit of a project and that is the unboxing of what may be
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the lightest box that I have unboxed
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today this is the lynus AE 2500 dualband
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Wireless N USB adapter so what is dualband good for that is a question
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that I have actually never been asked um
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in any way shape or form but I'm going to answer it anyway because that is a
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question that I actually had at one point in time before I knew what dual
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band was good for so dual band can mean a couple of different things so there's
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dual band which means 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
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this router or adapter sort of you know one or the other can operate either on
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this higher frequency or on this lower frequency and that is to get away from
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interference of other devices that operate on those frequencies such as say
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for example in the case of 2.4 gigahertz cordless phones for example that's an
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example for you but there's also concurrent dual
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band concurrent dual band allows you to use both of those frequencies at the
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same time in order to transfer more data so this isn't concurrent dual band this
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is dual band so 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz dual
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band 300 megabit per second so that is
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how many lanes of data transfer there are on a given band not that you're
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actually using more bands okay and then
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we've got Superior range Advanced security and easy setup so easy setup is
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something I've pretty much come to expect from Cisco linkis products at
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this time uh we did set up their range extender a little while ago and that was
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very easy this one comes with a wireless adapter setup CD you know what I'm going
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to go ahead and I'm going to say don't throw this away especially if you're not
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an advanced user this is actually pretty handy and does make setting up the
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device very very simple so you're still
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going to want to grab the latest drivers from the linkis website but um just for
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the for the initial setup this is not a bad way to go so
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this is the ae2500 which
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includes run CD first a
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warning and an
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adapter and it's a USB network
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adapter made by lynis and or Cisco
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depending on how you prefer to look at it you you know what I don't know what
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else to tell you guys here because it is
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a USB wireless adapter and it is aha maybe we'll talk
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about this hold on where are they I'm sure I have them somewhere wait for it
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come with me come with me if you want to ah here we go
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aha it is designed in a matching
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style to go with and match your other
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link Cy by Cisco routers and products
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that are wireless and look good with them and have a similar finish so over
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here see check this out see how we have a similar finish on our USB adapter as
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we have on our Cisco
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router so this is the e4200 which is
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their high-end dualband 450 megabit router this is not uh this is not 450
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megabit but it is dual band but if I recall correctly that guy is concurrent
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so hold on a second nope just dual band not
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concurrent yeah simultaneous okay so yeah that one is concurrent this one is
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not concurrent thank you for checking out my unboxing of the AE 2500 don't
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