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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the d-link DWA 182 this is pretty much actually don't know of another one I mean there's media bridges there's a not a whole lot else but there are not a lot of wireless AC clients out there yet and d-link already has a USB one so very very cool stuff so this is a dual band AC 1200 next generation Wi-Fi remember guys this number right here refers to how many megabit per second it is theoretically capable of delivering so in theory this guy's capable of over a gigabit in terms of raw throughput now remember there's overhead involved so you're not going to see that in the real world plus you have distance and speed drops and whatever else but that's what it is theoretically maximum capable of so there's the speed superior range dual band so that means four point or 2.4 gigahertz and five gigahertz five gigahertz remember is not quite as good for range but is a little bit better for speed and there's a lot less interference on that frequency versus 2.4 gigahertz which everything from like old Wireless cordless phones and all kinds of other stuffs on their HD 3d ready at that kind of speed it better be easy setup okay so draft AC compliant and compliant D compliant a compliance so it's got lots of different backwards compatibility WPS set up for easy configuration this is basically all the same stuff it just told us on the back oh they have 24/7 support now I didn't even know that and their packaging is printed with sway ink Windows 7 compatible hopefully Windows 8 compatible too let's find out what's in here so we've got a Quick Start sort of start here CD we can download the latest off the d-link website got something in like the francais a written offer or whatever source code thing okay I'm glad we put that on a piece of paper ah dual band okay package condom really we open up the package and it tells us the package oh well that's so that we can check and make sure that everything's in there but seriously there's your Quick Start Guide and finally Wow look at this thing this is this is a manly USB adapter important install the software from the bundled CD before inserting the adapter they did put it on a big yellow sticker so I guess I better make sure that I do that although that won't help me the next time when this is in the pile of like network adapters and I don't see that warning and then I forget and plug it in without you know what I'm going to do this is something I highly recommend you guys do for yourself just leave warning labels for yourself on things there problem solved no you know what let's just make it not look stupid there we go so there's a WPS adapter there's your indicator LED that must be a new d-link logo because I've never seen that before there's a more traditional d-link logo on the back got some information including the MAC address and here we have all cardinal sin committed caps that don't attach to the back that's that's a shame USB to interface meaning we'd be limited to 480 megabits per second anyway because that's the limit of USB 2 so so if we can get that kind of throughput then I guess I'll be then I guess I'll be pleased with it because that's more than a G adapter can do anyhow it comes with an extension cable so if you don't want to plug it directly into something you want to get it up sort of higher away from something then that'll help and it'll look something like that oh there we go I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the DW a1 a2 one of the first AC adapters for this new exciting standard don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos