Linksys Expert E1550 Wireless N Router With USB Storage Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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894 words · ~4 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the lyus e1550 wireless end router with speed
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boost and probably the biggest feature of this one considering that this is a
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more value oriented router is the inclusion of the USB storage store and
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share so I'm going to go ahead and get the packaging off here and why don't we
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open it up whoa it's okay everything's okay the router fine comes with a power
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adapter and it comes with a router and a
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lynus E Series setup C something that's kind of cool that you may or may not
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know about lynis routers is that no matter which tier of product you're
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buying the very highest end or the very lowest end is exactly the same setup
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process very very simple we did actually try the lynxis setup procedure with our
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uh range extender so that was pretty easy okay we've also got an Ethernet
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cable and I think Slick's laughing because I'm trying to hide my cut finger
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from the camera yes I'm bleeding it's okay don't worry about it you know this
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happens all the time it's like you know it's a box cut right um actually it's
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from my knife but yeah so basically with all of
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my unboxings I should probably be including like a warning like don't try
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this at home because you could end up with blood on your finger okay so but
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seriously blood's not funny AIDS and stuff features and specification
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he wants me to change the angle so I'm going to go ahead and sort of adjust it here features and specifications
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Wireless N built with leading 802.11 n technology for top performance
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and range broad compatibility Works seamlessly with backwards compatible as
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well as end devices 2.4 GHz band so this is not a dual band router this is a
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fairly basic router high speed up to 300
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megabit per second so this is not quite that basic because it's not wireless
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N150 it is more like full Wireless N which is 300 megabit there are 450
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megabit products but right now they command a pretty serious premium over the 300 megabit products extended range
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oh look at that this has a mimo antenna okay okay so this is actually a fairly
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serious business router then speed boost increases signal strength across greater
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distances good stuff Advanced security that's pretty much standard right there
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fast Ethernet ports so 4100 ports this is mostly intended for a home where
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you're predominantly using the wireless and you're not relying too much on the
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wired otherwise you're going to want to step up to a gigabit router uh We've
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also got the USB storage Port so add external storage and share files across
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your network so this isn't for serious file sharing because like I said this is
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a 1000 router so it's not like you're going to go and put like you know 10
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terabytes of data onto this shareport
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here and expect to be you know accessing it in a reasonable amount of time you
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are going to want a higher-end router for that no this is more for your casual
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thing so you throw external hard drive on there you put your photos or you put
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you know a couple you know funny videos or whatever that you you want Grandpa to
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see when he comes over you pull them out on your tablet or whatever you shift
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through them that's the intended purpose of something like this this is not like
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to you know run nightly backups of all your PCS and restore from it and do like
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crazy massive amounts of data so let's just have a close look at the router
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because it looks pretty much like uh most of the other linky uh routers out
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there right now we've got our 4100 ports our W Port our reset button our power
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LED as well as our power input port we
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have oh look at this tampering with or disassembling this device avoids the
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warranty so please don't open it up you shouldn't need to open it up anyway it's
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got lots of cooling anyway and uh hold
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on a second I'll be back Slick's trying to still say something slick says I
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failed to mention the USB when I was pointing at all the ports on the back
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I'm sure that was worth interrupting the video for all right we've got ventilation
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slots around all edges of this router so
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there shouldn't be pretty much any need to open it up because it's got lots of
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cooling either way and did I say this was reset what I really meant was WPS
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this is for OneTouch setup the reset button is actually down here and then
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we've got little rubberized grippy bits here which are going to keep it from
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sliding around when you put it down and that's pretty much it this is the E550
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