Google will sort your home WiFi with the Onhub

Restarting you router is a given these days, with the amount of conflicts an traffic the router is contractually having to deal with it is no wonder it just gives up after a while. It will then take the flack from the owner as they stomp across and hit a button to get things going again. It’s happened to us all and those Router Gremlins are a real pain in the backside. Thankfully it looks like companies that know what they are doing are promising to tackle this head on and produce better results than the currently generation of WiFi access points and routers.

Google is presenting the Onhub, a $200 router that promises the world and we can only cross our fingers and hope it delivers.

Specced out like so:

• made by TP-Link
• IPQ8064 Dual Core 1.4GHz (same SoC as the R7500 Nighthawk from Netgear)
• 1GB DDR3L RAM
• 4GB internal storage, 8MB “NOR flash”
• one USB3.0 port
• built-in 3W speaker
• Bluetooth 4.0
• ZigBee/Thread 802.15.4 conformance (?????)
• AC1900 tier
• 13 antennas: 3×3 for 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n, 3×3 for 5GHz 802.11a/n/ac, 1×1 auxiliary 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• gigabit WAN port, and only one gigabit LAN port

Stay tuned for an ASUS take on things. Their RT-AC87 model looks to be doing something similar.

We’re streaming and sharing in new ways our old routers were never built to handle. Meet OnHub, a new router from Google built for all the ways you Wi-Fi.