Cisco Small Business RV110W Wireless N Firewall Unboxing & Showcase Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have a product that might not be that interesting for the home users but
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if you work in a small business or if you own your own small business this
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should be pretty relevant so this is the rv110w from Cisco for small business it
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offers simple secure connectivity for small office and home office that
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enables faster file transfer using high-speed Wireless technology
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802.11n so all that basically means so far as it's a router and it's 802.11n
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it's a wireless end router for small business okay let's keep going you can
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access files on your business Network securely while you're away from the office so by using ipack tunnels using
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Cisco quick VPN or the quick VPN client
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you can actually support up to five remote workers using this particular
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router so that's kind of cool you can also allow guests to access the internet
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securely now I've seen the setups on some of Cisco routers including the
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valet where they show you how to set up your guest wireless network it's very
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intuitive and this one unlike some business class routers actually uses an
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intuitive easy interface so that's another thing that's kind of cool here
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we go let's see what they have to say for themselves on the side that's the package contents we'll get to that when
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we open the package and here is a little map of where this fits into your network
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so this is a wireless n VPN firewall so
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basically what they're trying to say is that through the internet through the
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VPN tunnel you can have remote workers that are securely able to to access your
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work by bypassing the firewall that is built into the router that keeps out
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your malicious software attack so that's what this particular diagram means from
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here it can go out to your IP phone your network storage your video cameras your
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wireless printers Wireless laptops whatever else the case may be it uses
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fast Ethernet ports so you've got a four port Hub that's built in Wireless end
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for wireless and let's see what else they've got on the back here so secure
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remote access using ipvpn technology okay we talked about that already and it
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is ip6 enabl to help feature proof your network easy to install and use this
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we've all talked about so far as well terms of specifications I actually have
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a better sheet than this one so we can get into that a little bit after let's
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get it opened up and find out what you get with the rv110w first you get a
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readme first disc next you get a quick start guide in
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color showing you where to plug things in all right next you get the wireless
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firewall unit itself so take that guy
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out we got two antennas on there so I'll show you I'll show you this in detail a
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little bit after we get a power adapter
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pretty typical standard Fair all right and finally we get a single Ethernet
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cable so if you already have a modem then this will be that additional one
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that you'll need in order to connect the firewall to the modem so let's have a
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look at the unit itself okay we've got a Cisco logo on the front you want to come
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in a little bit closer at all or yeah okay we got a Cisco logo on the front
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power power LED we've got a WPS setup button so that's really handy to have if
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you have other WPS supporting devices internet uh LED we've got a wireless LED
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uh Lan LEDs for the four different ports
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okay on the side we've got some ventilation holes as well as a Kensington lock remember these are small
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business SKS so these are not uh necessarily cheap this guy is in the mid
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100 some odd range so yes it's an expensive wireless router but it does
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have technology built in that is not
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for consumers it's for businesses we've got a reset switch we've got the 4100
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fast Ethernet ports the one100 W Port so
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this guy is capable of delivering up to 80 megabit per second between the W and
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the Lan ports so that's the hardware that we have inside we've also got a
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power button as well as our power input and the two built-in antennas so those
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are built in on the other side we find more ventilation holes on the bottom
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we've got the little wall mount clips as well as some rubber feet so it doesn't
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move around and finally on the top we find a Cisco logo so this guy compared
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to something like its bigger brother the rv220w which I'll get to after supports
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a very basic number of Ip set connections so only five remote workers
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it has less thorough put between the W
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and the Lan ports so this guy right here has a gigabit W port and is capable of
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delivering up to 800 megabit per second
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whereas this guy is only 80 megabit per second okay and then finally you don't
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have have support for sslvpn thorough put so and there's also no cloud-based
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web protection what you also do get that you don't get with a consumer based
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solution though if you're just using consumer routers in your business right
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now is you get uh one year of phone tech
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support with Cisco and a three-year warranty on it very few consumer routers
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are going to come with that much warranty and that much support so thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the RV 110w don't forget to
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videos sorry guys one key feature I missed is that it allows you to create
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separate virtual networks so up to four of them you can divide either your wired
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or wireless networks into four zones so
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that they can or cannot have access to each other so that's one way that you
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can keep your files secure and then obviously I did mention the guest Wi-Fi
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before that one would not have access to any of your business files and it would
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just be a straight internet connection for you know someone visiting your
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company who wants to sit and get some work done while they wait or whatever
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else the case may be