D-Link DWA-182 Wireless AC 1200Mbps Wireless USB Adapter Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the dlink dwa 182 this is pretty M I
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actually don't know of another one I mean there's media Bridges there's uh
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not a whole lot else but there are not a lot of Wireless AC clients out there yet
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and dlink already has a USB one so very very cool stuff so this is a dual band
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ac200 Next Generation Wi-Fi remember guys this number right here refers to
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how many megabit per second it is theoretically capable of delivering So
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in theory this guy is capable of over a gigabit in terms of raw throughput now
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remember there's overhead involved so you're not going to see that in the real world plus you know distance and speed
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drops and whatever else but that's what it is theoretically maximum capable of
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so there's the speed Superior range dual band so that means 4 point or 2.4 GHz
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and 5 GHz 5 GHz remember is not quite as good for range but is a little bit
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better for speed and there's a lot less interference on that uh frequency versus
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2.4 gz which everything from like old Wireless cordless phones and all kinds
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of other stuff's on there hd3d ready at that kind of speed it better be easy
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setup okay so draft AC compliant n compliant G compliant a compliance so
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it's got lots of different backwards compatibility WPS setup for easy
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configuration this is basically all the same stuff it just told us on the back
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oh they have 24/7 support now I didn't even know that and their packaging is
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printed with with soy
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ink Windows 7 compatible hopefully Windows 8 compatible too let's find out
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what's in here so we've got a quick start sort of start here CD we can
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download the latest off the dlink website got something in like Le France
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oh written offer oh whatever source code thing okay I'm glad we put that on a
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piece of paper uh dual band okay package cont really we open up the package and
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it tells us the package well that's so that we can check and make sure that
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everything's in there but seriously there's your quick start guide and
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finally wow look at this thing this is this is a manly USB adapter important
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install the software from the bundle TD before inserting the adapter they did
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put it on a big yellow sticker so I guess I better make sure that I do that
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although that won't help me the next time when this is in the pile of like
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network adapters and I don't see that warning and then I forget and plug it in
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with you know what I'm going to do this is something I highly recommend you guys
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do for yourself is leave warning labels for yourself on things
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there problem solved no you know what let's just make it not look stupid there
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we go so there's your WPS adapter there's your indicator LED that must be
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a new dlink logo because I've never seen that before there's a more traditional
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dlink logo on the back you got some information including the Mac Address
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and here we have a cardinal sin committed caps that
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don't attach to the back that's that's a shame USB 2
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interface um meaning we'd be limited to 480 megabit
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per second anyway because that's the limit of USB 2 so so if we can get that
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kind of throughput then I guess I'll be then I guess I'll be pleased with it because that's more than a g adapter can
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do anyhow it comes with an extension
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cable so if you don't want to plug it directly into something you want to get
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it up sort of higher away from something then that'll help and it'll look
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something like that oh there we go I
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think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my un boxing and
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