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today I have the Linksys ether t200 high-performance dual band and router so dual band is mostly useful in scenarios where you have a lot of wireless networks lying around and there's actually oh you know what I'll be back a minute okay guys so here I have a pretty cool little app called Wi-Fi analyzer this an Android app so I want to explain why dual band is often necessary so if there are a lot of wireless networks in your area then you can definitely benefit from dual band so check this out this particular app only analyzes the 2.4 gigahertz range and you can see that where I live there's actually only a couple of Wi-Fi networks so you can see these two curves are centered over channel 6 so that means that both the corner house 2 which is my Wi-Fi and tell us whatever this is which is I guess a neighbor are both running off of channel 6 so what you can do to get away to get the best park performance is to take your Wi-Fi network and put it on maybe channel 11 or 12 which will get you away from interference and incidentally that one's also allows some Wi-Fi network called library so what happens is once this starts to get really crowded with what different Wi-Fi networks running on the same channels performance can be affected so that is when it might be useful there we go to get a dual band router so what you want to do is you want to configure your router then and you'll have to make sure that you have dual band compatible adapters and devices but you want to configure your router to run in the five gigahertz band so what that means is you can remove yourself from all of that interference that's occurring on the 2.4 gigahertz band and get the best possible performance out of your router so inherently 5 gigahertz does not perform better than 2.4 gigahertz but in a scenario let's say you live in an apartment building or in a dense densely populated area in a scenario where lots of the 2.4 gigahertz band is already taken up with other traffic you can get away from it and you can get the true performance that you are trying to achieve now this is not a concurrent dual band router current dual-band means you can take those both of those channels and you can run them send and receive data on both of them at the same time and get a performance boost that way this is more of like a witch which one you want to use so 300 plus 300 megabits speed that is on both of the available bands superior range speed boost gigabit ports a USB port that's very cool to have included as well as an H it's HD 3d ready that basically means as fast parental controls and easy setup this is a big one because Linksys routers are out of all of the ones that I have seen oh hold on give me a sec guys cuz out of all the routers that I've encountered Linksys ones are the easiest to set up things like parental controls and guest networks and things like that now I made a mistake this is a dual band concurrent router so that means the scenario I gave you guys where you want to get away from interference that is still true but the scenario I gave you guys where you want to use both bands to send and receive down at the same time for performance boost that does apply to this router so let's have a look at the back and see if there's anything else there you go simultaneous dual band double the network bandwidth to avoid interference and not to maximize throughput throughput so that's a shorter way of saying that long story that I gave you okay fast data transfer rates and hence MIMO antenna right so like all of the recent links has products it has an internal antenna array but it does support multiple and multiple out that is MIMO okay speed news plus yeah yeah signal strength across greater distances all of this I think we've pretty much covered so far Gigabit Ethernet SAR import are included this is something that I would consider an essential feature for any modern router because if you are using the wired connections which are here then you're going to want to achieve the best speed possible out of them and ten hundred just doesn't cut it anymore we're getting internet plans that are getting close to 100 megabit per second so you want your internal network if you're transferring large files watching HD videos over the network whatever the case may be to definitely be gigabit so on the back we've got our USB port which supports storage so you can set up a storage device on there for your home network as well as for a remote access Gigabit Ethernet ports times four as well as your LAN port your WPS so that is your one button one touch wireless setup your power indicator your 12 volt input on the sides you see ventilation poles so these are just for passive cooling you can actually see can you see those heat sinks in there yeah you can so you can see the heat sinks in there so those are just going to be passively cooled from air coming up through the bottom of the unit and then coming out of the top of it you also have included an AC adapter one where cable as well as the Linksys eseries set up the CD this is one of the cases where actually kind of do recommend running the CD especially if you're not experienced setting up routers it can be kind of handy it just walks you through and it takes you to the correct IP right off the bat and then walks you through the setup wizard so I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the e30 200 from Linksys by Cisco don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer