Linksys PLW400 Powerline AV Wireless Network Extender Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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slick and iron agreement on this this is magical this is like more magical than
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the iPad which the late Steve Jobs
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declared to be magical therefore it is magical this is magical this is a
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powerline AV wireless network extender
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an existing inhome powerline network is required for use okay understood the
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plw400 what does it do it easily extends your
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wired and wireless network coverage in your home yes your wired and wireless
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network coverage in your home you know I'm going to go find that okay so if you
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already have one of these where you got like you know your power line like
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somewhere you know this is where where your router is in your modem this is in
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like Johnny's room to power his computer because you know the walls are made of
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lead or the paint is lead or you know you know you really shouldn't use lead
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paint your kids will be like damaged by that okay so Johnny's room is painted
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with lead and wireless doesn't work so we have power line running to there so
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we buy this third adapter which just automatically like syns up with the
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other guys you might have to press the sync button whatever no big deal what
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this does maybe we take this down to like the media room in the basement okay
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so you use the network Jack here to plug
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into okay we'll let we'll just start this looks like trying to look closely
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at the tiny picture on the box it's like why are we doing this we're just going to open it anyway there we go there we
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go so we use the Ethernet port on the bottom to run to like a switch which
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powers like the the media PC and the TV
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with Ethernet and all the gadgets that I'm sure you can all you know have and
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in your media room that everyone has a media room I don't have a medor room but
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um right so that goes there and then because it's in the basement it's far
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away and you use lead paint in your house or for whatever reason you don't
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have good Wireless reception it also extends your wireless network so it's a
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range extender that doesn't have your bandwidth because it's using half of its
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signal to send and half of it signal to receive and it's like bridging these two
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zones this is a range extender that has
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wired essentially as the backbone and then it just has a wireless like it
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creates a little like Wireless extension Hotpot wherever it happens to be so this
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is the most magical thing ever because now instead of going you know trying to
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boost the signal to your antenna or like Buy a wireless extender you just throw
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these all over your house and you'll have like just the most Beast possible
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wireless coverage throughout your entire house just by using little guys like
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this and because Wireless bandwidth is so inconsequential even though these are
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only 200 megabit per second that wired
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connection it's still more than enough for anything you would do wirelessly on
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something like a tablet or a phone or whatever else the case may be we have an
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Ethernet cable that is included we have a setup to CD which you should no I
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don't know go ahead and use it actually Link's stuff is pretty good like it
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doesn't waste a lot of your time and it's pretty straightforward okay package
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contents wire transfer speeds up to 200 it's 2.4 GHz so it's not dual band or
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anything fancy like that but it gives you extended home coverage and it has a
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1000 Ethernet port which is all it really
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needs supports WPS I think that's pretty much it so if
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you guys don't understand yet how magical this is like like Post in the
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comments and let either me or one of the other users to uh like help you
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understand that it's magical because it really is there's a reset switch here
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protection button WPS all your indicator LEDs onoff switch
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and your Ethernet port and the plug that goes into the wall thank you for
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