Seamless Optimized Home Wi-Fi From ASUS! - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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ASUS has unveiled the new hardware networking ecosystem that works with an
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app that will enable you to optimize your signal strength and performance
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stay tuned to find out how thanks to Squarespace for sending us here to CES
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2016 if you want to check them out their link is in the description down below
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the app was developed in partnership with Cloud check which enables you to
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kind of walk around your house with a phone or tablet checking signal strength
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along the way it sends numbers and data back to ASUS where they crunch that
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information and input real-time data back to you which is actually super
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handy you can make decisions off of that whether you need to just move things
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around your house or add a repeater here or there or whatever this can help
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people like Dennis who has crazy signal problems all throughout his house and
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it's weird and confusing and this would probably solve his problem outside of
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that there's the ASUS router app which has real-time traffic visualization
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packet prioritization Diagnostics easy firmware upgrades and they're what the
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fast Suite of software stuff which helps you identify problems and prioritize
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things along the way one of the cool things about the Diagnostics part of that is that it's flexible diagnostic so
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you can decide what you want to troubleshoot and win so if you want to see if it's on the ISP side of things
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you can diagnose just your modem that's something that I would definitely take
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advantage of speaking of modems the next product is the ASUS cm32 which includes
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a modem in its router package which is actually relatively interesting speaking
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of being able to diagnose one thing at a time it has Mo mimo which is multi-user
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mimo which is quite cool a 4x4 array it's wireless AC with a peak speed of
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over 2.5 g abits which is why it is also
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called an ac2600 it's certified for a 5,000 ft house but it does have an MSRP
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of 299 that 5,000 ft isn't enough there's
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the RP ac68u which is a Wi-Fi repeater or more
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accurately in my opinion a Media Bridge it has 5 GB Ethernet ports a USB 3.0
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Port which has lower overhead so it's able to act faster which is cool because
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you can plug in like an external hard drive or a USB drive or whatever and it
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will act as a Nas next up we have the RP
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ac66 repeaters and you might be wondering why I keep on talking about
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repeaters that might not seem like the most exciting thing ever but they
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feature seamless transfer which is kind of the most exciting thing ever uh what
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that enables you to do is you know how when you're at someone's house and they
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have Wi-Fi repeaters and you have to switch which one you're on manually and
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it's really annoying cuz sometimes you might be on one bar of connection to one
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of them but it's not switching you to the other one cuz you have to do it and it's frustrating and annoying it pisses
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you off but then you go to a school or like an airport or a hotel and it
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transfers seamlessly and it's all nice and stuff now you're able to do that at
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your house that's actually really sick and if that ease of use wasn't enough
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for you they also have their wall plug built into the unit so you can very
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easily just plug it in or even just plug a power extension to that if you decide
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that isn't exactly what you want it to do but I don't know it's pretty simple
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to me anyways thank you for checking out our ASUS networking content at CES thank
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you to Squarespace for sending us here this year check out Squarespace if you want to make a website for I don't know
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maybe a company that sets up networking for people you can set up seamless
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connections and seem like a badass by just using as Su stuff I don't know it
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works it's cool you can use their template engine engine to create a
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website that looks super slick and you can even use a cover page thing if now
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you need a job because ASUS just took yours from you because their networking
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is too easy I don't know whatever works for you that's fine squarespace.com
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