Cisco Small Business RV220W Wireless N Firewall Unboxing & Showcase Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the Cisco small business rv220w this is a wireless
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end network security firewall which basically means that it is a highly
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secure and high performance High reliability it has a lifetime warranty
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okay router with a firewall for small
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business so why don't we go ahead and have a look at what's included with it first first and then we'll talk about it
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a little more and maybe do some quick comparisons to its little little brother
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the rv10 W so the first thing we find is
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a read this first disc you might want to
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read that first okay next we have a quick start
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guide shows you how to mount it to the wall and plug some cables into it these
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are all good things next we have a g the
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deage rapid so that would be in French next we have the firewall unit itself
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I'm going to go ahead and pull that out for now and then we'll see what other
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accessories we can find in the eco-friendly packaging by the way very
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nice appreciate that always helps when everyone's doing
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their part to save the environment and I mean this actually is
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um often times more expensive to produce
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than a foam based insert because someone has to actually fold this believe it or
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not so uh so yeah getting the dyes made
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up for uh for the packaging for something like this is not uh not cheap
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it does cost money to be eco-friendly this thing feels like a tank holy smokes
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all right so the rv220w let's have a look at the unit itself before we talk
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about what makes it special so I'm going to throw these antennas on here on the
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back comes with two antennas these are user replaceable so you could swap them
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out for other antennas should you desire
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okay so the front of the unit here we have a power LED we have a diagnostic we
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have a demilitarized zone indicator we have a wireless indicator we've also got
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indicators for the speed of the various land ports so these go up to gigabit and
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the W Port is also gigabit what part of what makes this guy special is it is
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capable according to Cisco's spec of delivering up to 800 megabit per second
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thorough put between the W and the landan ports so what that means is you
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could have an internet connection that is almost gigabit down and you would be
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able to fully almost fully utilize it
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using a router such as this one we've got some ventilation holes on this side
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we've got some ventilation holes on the other side here on the bottom we find
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some rubber non-slip feet as well as options to mount it on the wall either
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this way or this way whatever you should desire and then on the back we find a
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power switch our power input which did I not even show you the power adapter and
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the Ethernet cable it comes with sorry about that guys there they are our four Lan ports so as I mentioned
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before gigabit and our gigabit Lan port as well as a hard reset button now this
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guy also has 802.11 uh 2.4 GHz 5 GHz dual band
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wireless n so you can obviously use it
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for wireless although the the performance you're going to get out of this is going to be predominantly wired
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because it is a gigabit router but if you are using Wireless in your office it
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can be handy to have that option as well and then let's talk a little bit about
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some of the other features that it has that make it
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neat so so the rv220w because it's for
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business and every business needs reliability is all about security and
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reliability you do not want downtime so between the Cisco Forum where which is
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an online support Community for small businesses to come together and talk to
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other Cisco customers and partners uh you can get support that way you also
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have support directly from Cisco on a product like this and compared to its
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little brother you have the same security features including hybrid VPN
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with SSL and IP set capabilities but more so so for example where the rv110w
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supports only five IP set connections
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this little guy well little guy shouldn't really say it's a little guy it weighs like a couple pounds actually
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supports 25 connections and it also
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has um as I mentioned before a limited lifetime warranty whereas its little
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brother at about a third of the price only has a 3-year warranty and I
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shouldn't really say only because most consumer routers only come with oneyear
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warranties so thank you for checking out out my first look at the rv220w don't
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