ASUS EA-N66 Multi Function Wireless Network Adapter Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of a very versatile networking adapter from ASUS
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and an impenetrable box it's okay we'll
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figure it out that's why I have my trusty debox ifying knife I'm going to
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stop calling them unboxings and I'm going to call them debox ifying it won't
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be as good of a search keyword but uh I think you guys will sort of you know
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support me on this so here's all the stuff that's included bunch of stuff in
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there bunch of boxes here it's like a pyramid it goes like that and then
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there's like this power thing and then there's like a crot shot which slick is
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apparently going for here and uh no I'm
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just kidding you weren't going for the crop
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shot if you were you'd have succeeded
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and I'm not saying it would have been a bad thing okay so what is special about this
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three different functions one it can act as a network adapter so the way you'll
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do that is you go okay I need Wireless networking you know we're going to do
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like real world examples of this as we go so oh I need a wireless adapter so
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I'm going to like plug this Ethernet cable in and then I'm going to like oh
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yeah I'll plug it in a little bit better than that so it doesn't fall out there we go and I'll plug in the power and
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then what you do is you pair it with your
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router using WPS and then you plug it in via Ethernet
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to something that you need to have wireless network connectivity boom
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Ethernet ad or wireless network adapter okay functionality number two is as a
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range extender so if you want to use it as a range extender I'm sure there's
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some kind of configuration you'll need to do it's there's a quick start guide
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so you know what we're not going to get too far into that you follow the
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instructions and then you won't need an Ethernet adapter probably once you
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finished the set up but you just take the power and the pyramid you go
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wherever it is you need a wireless range extender don't forget guys don't place a
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wireless range extender on the very outside of your wireless range like if
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this is your uh if this is your wireless router right here and it's got a range
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of this you put your range extender oh
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whatever don't worry about it you put your range extender here as opposed to
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like right at the edge where it won't get a very good signal does that make
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sense because that way it has a good signal to the router and then it
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can extend the range from there okay
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functionality number three is if you have an existing uh router that doesn't
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have a very good wireless access point you can use this as an access point so
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you can add Wireless functionality to a router that doesn't have it just by
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plugging this in Via one of the switch
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ports on the router and you're done so
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maybe this is the kind of thing that you're looking at going okay well I
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don't need one of these at all oh it's dual band 450 megabit per second just so
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you guys know it's wireless maybe you're looking at it going well I don't need one of those right now but if I ever did
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need Wireless anything this is probably
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the handiest way to augment my network in whatever way I could possibly need so
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these are extremely popular now that I've said what I want to say about it
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let's have a look at what ASUS thinks so patented 3point orthogonal antenna and
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high power amplifier for en signal strength cool easy user interface Ultra
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fast gigabit e oh neat so it has gigabit Ethernet so you can actually take
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advantage of that 450 megabit per second fast wireless network strong 2. so dual
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band okay WPS one button setup cool cool gab Ethernet port powerful okay we've
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covered this already and onto the back so they've got aha Universal range
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extender access point and Ethernet
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adapter so very very very cool patented
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antenna design for best signal 5 GHz signal for like okay so this is a lot of
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repetition on this uh box here but I think we've pretty much covered it so
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the EA n66 from ASUS don't forget to
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