TrendNET Suite @ CES 2011 Wireless N 450Mb/s IP Cameras & More Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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yeah I didn't hear the beep oh It beeped did it it says record so it does okay
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well let's just let's just get started I'll cut that off okay all right so I'm
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here in the trend net suite at CES 2011 and they've got a bunch of really cool
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networking stuff on display so I want to start with their 450 megabit per second
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products so why don't we start on the left and move our way over to the right
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so most of these products are actually brand new and you can see the ones that
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are flagged with a CES launch badge actually the ones that are launching
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here at CES so this is pretty cool this is actually a 450 megabit pers second
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version of their gaming adapter so that allows you to have a high-speed wireless
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connection to not only a uh not only a
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gaming console but really anything that needs a network connection where you
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can't actually run a dedicated wire so
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here we have a concurrent dual band 450
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mbit per second router you can see that actually you're going to see over the
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next little bit here that most most of Tren Net's new products are using a very
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Sleek uh glossy black sexy shell design
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and this is a a a far cry from the sort
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of blue uh that we used to see sort of 2 three years ago so it's coming a long
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way in terms of the industrial design which is fairly obvious here we've got a
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450 mbit per second access point this one's not new and uh also this guy right
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here is not new this was their their 450
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megabit per second router they were first to Market with a 450 megabit per
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second router so this product was a little bit ahead of its time you can
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actually buy it at NC it's already in stock so there's nothing that new or
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announc about this one this is another thing that's not new this has been a
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focus for trenet over the last actually at CES last year they were talking a lot
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about green switches and they've got a great demo here that actually
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demonstrates we've got the green switch which is right here with the green
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stripe on it and this is the blue I was talking about they've got one of their
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old switches and you can see the power consumption is up to 70% less with a
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green switch versus with their older non
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power saving switches and not only that but now we've actually got green
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versions and you can see the green whoops I'm breaking everything you can
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see the green stripe here and the green branding on the front of this but this
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is actually a wireless end home router so we're able to reduce power
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consumption by about half with a wireless end router vers with a less end
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green router versus with a wireless end non power saving
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router and trenet obviously not all about switches and routers we've got
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their IP cameras so we've got a few products here that are new some that
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aren't new and some that are like unne because they're not even released yet so
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let's check out this one first we've got their TVP 612 series of cameras and I
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want to show you guys exactly how smooth the recording is on this particular
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camera has a 10x optical zoom it pans
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330° side to side and tilts 115° up and down which is pretty
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outstanding this is a wireless end camera although it is plugged in via
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Ethernet right now but if you just want to point the camera at that screen right
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there I'll dance a little J and show you
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guys how smooth the recording is on this camera now there's also a power over
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Ethernet version of it which is pretty much the same thing except PoE instead
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of wireless and moving down we have some cameras here that are not quite as new
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such as the TVP 512 W which I do remember from last year at CES now they
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have some new wireless end cameras coming as well so these are more
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consumer oriented models you can see these ones don't feature uh remote
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adjustment of where they're pointed at although we do have infrared models as
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well as some higher-end ones that do feature side to side as well as tilt
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functionality and infrared Lighting on them as well trenet is also taking
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Powerline Ethernet very very seriously and they've launched recently their 500
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megabit per second Powerline AV Adapter look here's a box that's what it looks
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like so 500 megabit per second is a first on the market and a first for
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Trend net in real world you're probably looking at about 200 megabytes per
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second and or 200 megabit per second and change but the reality of it is most
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Powerline adapters are not going to get anywhere near their rated thorough put
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it's a limitation of the tech technology and really that speed is more than
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adequate for HD streaming and even file transfers I've criticized Powerline a
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lot in the past for having great latency
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so it's great for gaming but for not having great thorough put well now you
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can actually transfer large files over it as well so moving along this
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way we finally got some more consumer products we have a few 3G Wireless end
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routers so these are great if you want to uh plug in for example a T-Mobile
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Stick and then share your connection with other people I mean 3G is not that
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fast so you're probably looking at a limitation of sort of three or four
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people using it at a time but it could be handy if you're traveling like with
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one other person and you guys want to share an internet connection in your room and last but not least we have the
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consumer level Wireless stuff so we've got a few Wireless end home routers a
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300 megabit per second concurrent dual band router this is sort of less
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exciting and this is what we find at the back of the suite as opposed to the
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front of the suite where we found all the 400 megabit per second stuff but
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this is still good too we've also got a few little cool uh adapters so so this
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one is ultra compact this one is ultra
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compact so these are both uh Wireless I
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believe these are both Wireless end yeah these are both Wireless end and then
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finally we have the world's smallest so this is a I don't know a micro compact
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whatever they want to call it it's less than the size of an actual USB plugin so
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that's pretty cool as well and oh this one this one I'm really excited about so
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this is the wireless end game G adapter remember I showed you guys the 450
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megabit pers second version over at the front of the suite so this is the older
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one and this one's going to be coming down to a lower price point remember it
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works with Wii Xbox and Playstation but also pretty much anything else that
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needs a network connection but this this is the one that's really exciting this
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is a cool product so this has a built-in switch okay and it is also a wireless
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end Media Bridge so there are similar products on the market for things like
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power line where you have multiple ports on one side side and then you have a
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power line connection running maybe to your main router but this one actually
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runs off of Wireless N so this is really cool so what trend it has to say for
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themselves here is that it works with network enabled Blu-ray players televisions DVRs game consoles it'll
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work with computers pretty much anything that needs a connection to your network
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and is not convenient to access via a wired connection or via power line so
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thank you for checking out my little video about the uh products that are on
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