Linksys WES610N Wireless N Entertainment Bridge Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the lynxis wes610n
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this is a four port dualband and
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entertainment Bridge so what is an entertainment Bridge well I would say
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that it is a bridge that whenever you walk over it there is entertainment to
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be found such as the Golden Gate Bridge
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with a circus next to it that is what I
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would consider to be an entertainment Bridge NOP this is a different kind of
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entertainment bridge this is a wireless bridge which is to say that it Bridges
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your wireless network to a wired Network
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and it is for entertainment in that it is fast so it is fully ready for HD and
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3D content uh Slick's giv me a hard time about the reflections coming off this
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box so why don't we just get the Box open get the product on the table and
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then I will tell you about how it is fast separately if it
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pleases His Highness okay actually it's
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you guys who are complaining about all the focusing issues and yes we're aware
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of them um no we can't really do anything about the camera for the time
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being but there you have it let's get this thing opened up and I'm actually
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pretty excited about this one because this is the kind of thing that is
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actually useful it's not networking for the sake of networking it is networking
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for the sake of making my life a a little bit easier and better so fully HD
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and 3D ready it is 300 megabit per
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second it is dual band so that is 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz offers Superior range has
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fast Ethernet ports which I believe means 10 100 Ethernet ports which are
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pretty much as slow as it gets but as fast as you will
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need and push button setup so how does
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this work basically what you do is you set up
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the wireless entertainment bridge by using WPS or by configuring it using the
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utility here this is actually one case where I would say yeah it kind of helps
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to have the uh the setup guide because you just plug this in then it walks you
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through everything and it's really really easy we've actually done it
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already with the range extender and then what you do is you reposition the bridge
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sort of further away or wherever you want to put it and you're good to go
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speaking of where you would want to put it what is this four so on the back you
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are going to find four Ethernet ports as well as power in what are those four
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Ethernet ports for why is it called an entertainment bridge I still haven't told you this so it is an entertainment
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Bridge because it is intended to be put near Your Entertainment so a lot of
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people have home theaters these days that is to say a TV with stuff connected
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to it so a TV with stuff connected to it often has Network stuff connected to it
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so things that you would connect to your TV that have networking these days so
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Blu-ray players um Xboxes WIS
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PS3s I don't know those little Network media player things like a patriot box
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office something like that maybe you got some network storage that you happen to
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have nearby maybe you've got uh what else I even smart TVs now they need
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Ethernet as well so Ethernet you need all these Ethernet connections what are
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you going to do are you going to run from your switch which is you know
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probably in your basement or probably in your attic or somewhere out of the way
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from your switch are you actually going to run four to five to six to who knows
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how many Ethernet cables down to your media center will you're not so one
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option is to run a single cable and use a switch to split it out into all the
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different devices and another option if you live in a house like mine where I
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happen to have a brick wall backing my
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entertainment center which means I can't run anything down the wall I have no
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crawl space so I can't run anything through the floor I don't want unsightly
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wires running around so I am stuck with either power line or Wireless so if
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power line doesn't work in your house for whatever reason then you go with wireless if Wireless doesn't work for
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whatever reason you go with power line at least you have those two options so this guy allows me to take my wireless
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network which already exists in my house it communicates with my router that way
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and then it acts as a four-port switch so I can plug it into my Xbox my TV my
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Blu-ray player and maybe I have one auxiliary Jack in order to get
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networking to all of those devices at the same time now none of these are
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going to be sort of you know sucking all the bandwidth at the same time most of
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these devices are just going to be about you know running an update or you know
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changing the firmware or whatever else the case may be but the entertainment
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Bridge due to being 300 megabit per second dual band does have the bandwidth
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to take at least one of those devices and run 1080phd content to it as long as
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you're within a reasonable range so I think that pretty much covers everything
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as far as usage scenarios goes on this one let me just see if I've missed
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anything oh check this out multiple antennas for expanded coverage and
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reliability dual band we already covered that quality of service traffic prior
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prioritization deliver Smooth video gaming performance that's kind of cool
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okay Advanced security WPA2 security to help keep your network protected
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Wireless uh 802.11n for top performance
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Y and backwards compatibility with ABG and let's see what else we got oh yeah
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here so I guess I didn't really have to spell all that out for you guys because
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look an Xbox a Blu-ray player and something else and a TV wireless end
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router Wireless this is the bridge this is the entertainment in terms of other
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things that are included we have an Ethernet cable of which you'll need
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probably at least one hopefully cuz if you're just putting this bridge like
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next to your TV and you don't actually plug an Ethernet cable into it you're kind of missing the point and then we
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also have a power adapter and finally we have a lyus dual Bend and entertainment
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Bridge CD which I actually do recommend using because it does make your life a
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little bit easier thank you for checking out my unboxing of the I see I can never
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