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Valet by Cisco M10 Wireless N Router With Easy Setup Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2011-02-04
today we're going to be having a look at the Cisco Valley wireless router so you can see that this was actually sitting on my floor for a couple days and like cat chewed the corner of it but your box won't look like that alright so from the worldwide leader in wireless networking Cisco we have what is apparently a home Wireless made easy style products over here you can see there's also an easy set up key for worryfree setup and i've unbox this one before and i'm actually going to do some testing with this guy well with both of them together to determine exactly how easy it is to use the cisco val a family of products so the idea i suppose with vet lay being the name is that it is all taken care of for you and you don't really have to do much setup so they've got award-winning 24/7 customer support as well as okay so we've got speed and range of wireless n we can link computers games and devices to the Internet I'm going to turn this around so you can sit we can manage parental controls with these and give internet access to guests cool stuff so let's open it up and have a look at what is inside the oh the side side of the box is actually open I could have just taken it out that way okay welcome to the new home wireless experience with a cat bite in it okay here we have oh okay no that's oh oh the thing on the outside of the box was not the wireless adapter that I had already set up this is interesting plug in to your computer and click connect to your cisco cisco valet to get started really that's kind of neat so I get it it's a valet key haha oh that's clever okay hold on I'm just going to put this here so I don't lose the sticker and then I'm going to show you guys the valet key so this is just a USB and it is an easy set up key so we'll have to definitely try that and this is just a box and then is okay so this here is the Cisco valet router oh it's blue look at that huh from wow I'm getting like tricked all over the place I must be tired I saw this and it looked like this was the router with like a blue like halo around it but no the router is actually white and baby blue so we've got indicator LEDs on the front here for the Ethernet computers that are connected we've got a connection button here we've got Wireless we've got Internet and then power indicator LEDs on these oh okay neat so here's your ventilation right here so air is going to just passively from convection be drawn by the heat rising up through these vent holes it'll be drawn in through the bottom and that is what is going to keep your cisco valet running cool enough so here at the back we can put plug in easy setup key to get started okay so we're going to pull this off and that is where we will discover all of the business and parts of this router so here's our Ethernet our Internet port here are four Ethernet ports here is a reset button and there is the power of Jack so here is the documentation or it really this doesn't explain anything this just says what you can do with a wireless router so that's good and then here we find the power plug as well as a an Ethernet cable so really this this product is going to come down to how easy is it to set up and I don't have the answer to that yet but hopefully I'll have a follow up video for you guys shortly showing you just how easy it is to set up the valet is this something that you can recommend to your grandma who wants a wireless network to buy or is it something that you're actually going to have to go and set up for her stay tuned to my video blog don't forget to subscribe and you will find out
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