D-Link Amplifi Whole Home Router 1000 Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,225 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the dlink amplify this is what they're calling
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okay now this is a whole home router
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1000 okay so what is a whole home router
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what they're saying is that for a large home this is going to provide the most
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wireless coverage compared to pretty
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much anything else that you can get and how are they achieving this well dink
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with their patented sectorized antenna design for Superior smart beam
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performance is basically and this is
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their summary not mine um but what
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they're basically doing is they're detecting exactly where your wireless
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devices are and they are beaming
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bandwidth directly to to them okay so my
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understanding of this is the router actually adapts where it is delivering
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the strongest signals by
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focusing the wireless antenna at your devices rather than just having kind of
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that uh General sort of hoam coverage it
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is sending Focus signals to each of your wireless devices in order to get you
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what is essentially just greater range
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okay so here we go here's where they help you choose the right product for
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you so all of these products are good for IPv6 technology with N300 being
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better for extended Wireless for larger homes or multiple floors and N plus 300
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being better for USB shareport for sharing devices an N plus 300 dual band
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being better for HD video gaming and Skype calls and then finally we have
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amplify npl 300 which is connectivity into virtually every corner of your home
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and even out Outdoors they have a little one there so what what are they wanting
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about
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um okay I don't see it hold on let me
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see if I can find it yes ha here we go maximum Wireless
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signal rate derived from I standard to 802.11 specifications actual data thr
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throughput may vary including volume of networking traffic building materials
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and construction Network overhead all that kind of interesting stuff
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okay oh here we go think green while this may look like your average product
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it's not this is a dink green product which is as good for your wallet as it
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is for the environment the dir 645 is designed to conserve energy protect our
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environment from harmful substances and reduce waste by using recyclable
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packaging interesting that's good I always appreciate that recyclable
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packaging is actually really important a whole lot of packaging ends up in landfills and it's totally unnecessary
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because the entire purpose of this box is to get you to buy it and then to not
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exist anymore aha here here's a little diagram so you can see what their
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patented sectorized antenna design is kind of going to look like so why don't
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we get this thing opened up and have a look at the device itself so start here
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so read this before installing this we're here to help start here put this in your computer in order to get going
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GPL code statement okay cool we've got an Ethernet cable we've got a power
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brick aha stop insert CD and Run Wizard
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first so this is the strangest shaped router that I have yet to see
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but I knew that already before I opened it oh use of this device may make your
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wireless connection vulnerable to unauthorized ACC oh basically it's telling you to enable a password on your
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wireless network which is very important because people can even do things like
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commit cyber crimes on your wireless network which can be traceable back to
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well your account with your internet
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service provider which is bad for a number of reasons okay stop insert okay
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wow there's a lot of warnings about stop and insert the CD and run the wizard
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first so I'm thinking that for this product you might want to consider
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stopping and running the CD the wizard
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on the CD first before you go any further and to prevent overheating
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remove the clear protective covers before using so dealing provides these
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clear protective covers in order to keep the uh product from being all covered by
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nasty horrible fingerprints before you even get a chance to use
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it there we go let's go ahead and start
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pulling those off because that's what we do on this channel we unbox products
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which includes removing protective
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films that is a very shiny router that's
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about as shiny as it gets if it weren't for the Distortion I'm sure you could
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see slick very clearly right about now so let's just take that off and what
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all do we find on this router So the antenna is
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actually in here is my understanding based on the diagram okay we've got got
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an uh web indicator LED Wireless indicator LED WPS button and a power
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button that's funny you don't usually see a power button on the front of a
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router very strange okay we've got a dlink logo right about here on the back
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we find 1 2 3 four these are gigabit Ethernet ports if memory serves yes they
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are 4 gbit ports as well as a w Port so
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then we've got power in as well as USB so USB allows you to use a uh any USB
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storage device in order to share files on your home network which is a really
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handy feature for routers to have that way if you have very simple file sharing
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needs and you just want to you know well share a couple files simply on your
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network you plug them into your router no big deal you don't need any additional devices uh finally on the
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bottom we find our reset switch I was looking for that I couldn't figure out
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where it was and I think basically
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that's about as far as I'm going to be able to go in this unboxing because
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until I can give you guys some concrete sort of evidence that this provid
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provides better coverage and you should stay tuned on the ncixcom channel for
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that to be upcoming then I can't tell you guys whether their new antenna
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technology works or not but what I can tell you is that we haven't seen a whole
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lot of advancement in terms of antennas on Home wireless routers in the last 10
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years basically we'll see like more or like taller ones but it's all the same
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basic thing so this seems like if it works it could be a huge step forward in
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terms of building better networks for your homes so I'm really looking forward
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to testing it out and we'll be doing that here in the tech tips room and probably across the parking lot if the
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range is anything like what they're saying it's going to be and I'm very very excited so thank you for checking
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out my unboxing don't forget to subscribe to lus techit for more unboxings reviews and other computer
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videos and big thanks to dink for letting us check this thing out I'm very
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curious to see how this goes