Valet by Cisco M10 Wireless N Router With Easy Setup Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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764 words · ~3 min read
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today we're going to be having a look at the Cisco valet wireless router so you
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can see this was actually sitting on my floor for a couple days and my cat
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chewed the corner of it but your box won't look like that all right so from
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the worldwide leader in Wireless networking Cisco we have what is
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apparently a home Wireless Made Easy
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style product so over here you can see there's also an easy setup key for
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WorryFree setup and I've unboxed this one before and I'm actually going to do
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some testing with this guy uh well with both of them together to determine
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exactly how easy it is to use the Cisco
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valet family of products so the idea I
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suppose with vet L being the name is
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that it is all taken care of for you and
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you don't really have to do much setup so they've got award-winning 24/7
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customer support as well as Okay so we've got speed and range of Wireless N
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we can link computers games and devices to the internet I'm going to turn this around so you can see it we can manage
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parental controls with ease and give internet access to guests cool stuff so
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let's open it up and have a look at what is inside the oh the side side of the
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box is actually open so I could have just taken it out that way okay welcome
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to the new home Wireless experience with a cat bite in it okay
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here we have oh okay no so oh the thing
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on the outside of the box was not the
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wireless adapter that I had already set up this is interesting plug into your
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computer and click connect to your Cisco Cisco valet to get started really that's
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kind of neat so I get it it's a valet key
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haha oh that's clever okay hold on I'm just going to put this here so I don't
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lose the sticker and then I'm going to show you guys the valet key so this is
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just a USB and it is an easy setup key so we'll
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have to definitely try that and this is just a box box and this is cardboard
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okay so this comes up here is the Cisco valet router oh it's blue look at that H
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wow I'm getting like tricked all over the place I must be tired I saw this and
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it looked like this was the router with like a blue like halo around it but no
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the router is actually white and baby blue so we've got indicator LEDs on the
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front here for uh the Ethernet computers
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that are connected we've got a uh connect button here we've got Wireless
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we've got internet and then power indicator LEDs on the oh okay neat so
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here's your ventilation right here so
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air is going to just passively from convection be drawn by the heat rising
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up through these vent holes uh it'll be drawn in through the bottom and that is
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what is going to keep your Cisco valet running cool enough so here at the back
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we can p plug in easy setup key to get started okay so we're going to pull this
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off and that is where we will discover all of the business end parts of this router
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so here's our Ethernet internet port
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here are four Ethernet ports here is a reset button and there is the power jack
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so here is the documentation for yeah really this
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doesn't explain anything this just says what you can do with a wireless router
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so that's good um and then here we find
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the power plug as well as a e an ethern
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cable so really this this product is going to come down to how easy is it to
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set up and I don't have the answer to that yet but hopefully I'll have a
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follow-up video for you guys shortly showing you just how easy it is to set
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up the valet is this something that you can recommend to your grandma who wants
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a wireless network to buy or is it something that you're actually going to
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have to go and set up for her stay tuned to my video blog don't forget to
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subscribe and you will find
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out