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welcome to an unboxing of a product that is not a retail product so like there's no proper packaging inside but I cannot emphasize enough that if you buy a d-link router it will not come with no packaging inside inside the box but I want to talk about the dhp 1320 and what is special about this particular router this uses a qualcomm chipset that allows not only wired and wireless operation but also power line operation built right into the router using the and I can never remember this number the one 905 point one standard so what that means is that just by installing this router in your home you have the flexibility to use either a wired connection to say the computers that are in the same room or that you can easily run a wire to wireless to your mobile devices and then power line to things like televisions in the future that adopt this standard things like just regular powerline adapters even from other brands right now interoperability between brands is something that powerline doesn't really doesn't really feature so that's something that we're going to have do to do to this new standard and so let's let's talk about the router a little bit here so this is okay sorry the dhp 1320 and it's got a little note here a dhp 306 a V or W 306 AV adapter is required to create a powerline network but the one that I'm gonna be demoing when I do my NCIX tech tips is going to be from a completely different brand just to emphasize that as long as the device complies to this standard it is going to work so okay do you like green power think green it's designed to conserve energy all that good stuff so that's kind of neat so power saving by link status power saving by cable link so it doesn't use more power to transmit a signal than it has two power saving by Wireless LAN scheduling in an on/off button that you can use to turn it off when it's not in use whole home coverage with no unsightly cables yes I if you guys have watched my videos a fair bit you that I'm a huge advocate of power line I love power line and what this does is it actually makes it even better so a convenience of Wi-Fi so this is Wi-Fi n 300 router and then on the back ok you know what let's just start looking at it here we go this is the router itself and I apologize for beating beat up this is like an eval sample that sort of made the rounds before it's before it's gotten to me for me to have a look at and see if I'm as impressed once I actually try it as I am when I hear about the initial technology so you guys will have to subscribe to my MCI XCOM channel if you want to see that video we're actually gonna try it out I can tell you now it's pretty heavy for a router we got some ventilation holes on the front remember powerline adapters often get quite warm and that's one of the reasons they're often positioned away from the wall so I can see why yeah you've got vent holes on the bottom vent holes on the side vent holes on the front because all of that power line technology is now in here as well as a router a switch and a wireless access point so there's a whole lot of technology going on in here we have a WPS button as well as yeah there's no manual so I'm gonna have to rely on someone to post a comment and tell me what that one does on the back we have three LAN ports a LAN port so instead of having a five port switch this has a four port switch built into it we can actually put it in AP mode or router mode that is a very handy little button to have and that's one of the cool things about this particular standard is that it also allows you to use devices whether they're little powerline access points or whether they're wireless extenders very very easily with a very minimal setup so that's what's gonna allow you if one device is not enough to cover your home you can actually set up repeaters in order to make sure that with a couple of devices you can get full coverage so I guess that's one of the reasons they might want you to be able to put this in access point mode so you can just buy another one plug it in to an existing powerline connection or rather right here for pyrite powerline and then use it as an AP we've got a reset switch USB for storage the on/off switch is right there an AC in so the AC in check this out and at a router that doesn't use power brick that's one of the other reasons is heavy because it has an internal power supply because that power supply is not only powering the device but also acting as a powerline network so if you don't understand how powerline network works it uses the cables in your walls the wires and your walls to transmit data as well as electricity rather than using an Ethernet cable as something far away it can actually go through your circuit breaker and access your entire house I've even used it in a warehouse before that was a few thousand square feet away from where I had my my actual router and one powerline adapter and then I used a notebook way way way far away and it still works just fine so that's the key difference here instead of needing an Ethernet cable to a powerline adapter to an extension cable to the wall now your router has already made your entire home network powerline ready just by plugging it in so thank you for checking out my little video about I guess it was sort of about the dhp 1320 but what it's really about is the I forget the number again the 1905 point one standard which is going to allow us to more easily network our homes using powerline