Linksys E3200 Dual Band Wireless N Router Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have the lynus e3200 high performance dual band and router so dual
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band is mostly useful in scenarios where you have a lot
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of wireless networks lying around and there's actually oh you know what I'll
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be back in a minute okay guys so here I have a pretty cool little app called
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Wi-Fi analyzer this is an Android app so I want to explain why dual B and is
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often necessary so if there are a lot of wireless networks in your area then you
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can definitely benefit from Dual Band so check this out this particular app only
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analyzes the 2.4 GHz range and you can see that where I live there's actually
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only a couple of Wi-Fi networks so you
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can see these two curves are centered over Channel 6 so that means that both
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the cornerhouse 2 which is my Wi-Fi and Tellis whatever this is which is I guess
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a neighbor are are both running off of Channel 6 so what you can do to get away
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to get the best P performance is to take your Wi-Fi network and put it on maybe
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Channel 11 or 12 which will get you away
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from interference and incidentally that one's also some Wi-Fi network called
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Library so what happens is once this starts to get really crowded with
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different Wi-Fi networks running on the same channels performance can be
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affected so that is when it might be
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useful there we go put that away for now to get a dualband router so what you
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want to do is you want to configure your router then and you'll have to make sure
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that you have dual band compatible adapters and devices but you want to
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configure your router to run in the 5 gz
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band so what that means is you can remove yourself from all that
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interference that's occurring on the 2.4 GHz band and get the best possible
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performance out of your router so inherently 5 GHz does not perform better
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than 2.4 GHz but in a scenario let's say
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you live in an apartment building or in a dense densely populated area in a
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scenario where lots of the 2.4 GHz band is already taken up with other traffic
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you can get away from it and you can get the True Performance that you are trying
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to achieve now this is not a concurrent dual band router concurrent dual band
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means you can take those both of those channels and you can run them send and
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receive data on both of them at the same time and get a performance boost that way this is more of like a a an a which
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which one you want to use so 300 plus 300 megabit speed that is on both of the
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available bands uh Superior range speed boost gbit ports a USB port that's very
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cool to have included as well as an H it's hd3d ready that basically means
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it's fast parental controls and easy setup this is a big one because linkis
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routers are out of all of the ones that I have seen oh hold on give me a sec
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guys cuz out of all the routers that I've encountered lyus ones are the
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easiest to set up things like parental controls and guest networks and things
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like that now I made a mistake this is a dualband concurrent router so that means
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the scenario I gave you guys where you want to get away from interference that
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is still true but the scenario I gave you guys where you want to use both
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bands to send and receive data at the same time for performance boost that
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does apply to this router so let's have a look at the back and see if there's
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anything else there you go simultaneous dual band double the network bandwidth
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to avoid interference and Max and maximize th throughput so that's a
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shorter way of saying that long story that I gave you okay fast data transfer
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rates enhanced mimo antenna array so like uh all of the recent linkis
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products it has an internal antenna array but it does support multiple in
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multiple out that is mimo okay speed boost plus yeah yeah signal strength
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across greater distances all of this I think we've pretty much covered so far
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gigabit Ethernet are import are included this is something that I would consider
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an essential feature for any modern router because if you are using the
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wired connections which are here then you're going to want to achieve the best
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speed possible out of them in 1000 just doesn't cut it anymore we're getting
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internet plans that are getting close to 100 megabit per second so want your
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internal network if you're transferring large files watching HD videos over the
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network whatever the case may be to definitely be gigabit so on the back
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we've got our USB port which supports storage so you can uh set up a storage
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device on there for your home network as well as for remote access gigabit
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Ethernet ports times four as well as your Wan Port your WPS so that is your
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one but OneTouch Wireless setup your power indicator and your 12vt input on
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the sides you see ventilation holes so these are just for p passive cooling you
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can actually see can you see those heat sinks in there yeah you can so you can
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see the heat sinks in there so those are just going to be passively cooled from
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air coming up through the bottom of the unit and then coming out the top of it
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you also have included uh an AC
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adapter one network cable as well as a lyus eer setup CD um this is one of the
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cases where I actually kind of do recommend running the CD especially if
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you're not experienced setting up routers it can be kind of Handy it just walks you through it it takes you to the
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correct IP right off the bat and then walks you through the setup wizard
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so I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing and
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