The Nest Wifi system is an update to the Google Home Wifi system released in 2016, and it's up to 25% stronger.

Cute and unobtrusive design. Simple setup. Reasonable price. Reliable coverage and performance. Matter and Thread support for smart-home devices. No multi-gig ports. Not backward compatible. Limited ...

Google Home (now called Google Nest) smart speakers and displays sit at the core of a smart home. There’s the Google Nest Mini for small spaces and tight budgets, Google Nest Audio for better sound ...

Historically, Google’s networking hardware – which includes older devices like the now retired OnHub series and newer ones like the Google Wifi and Nest Wifi – almost always has a codename related to ...

Setting up a new smart home device should be easy. However, every once in a while, you may run into an error message that prevents you from continuing. If you’ve ...

While Google has made a name for itself by making mesh Wi-Fi easy with Google Wifi and Nest Wifi, that simplicity is undercut by the routers’ lack of longevity, and the Nest Wifi Pro needs to tackle ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google’s new mesh routers have the latest Wi-Fi standards and can act as Thread border routers. They’ll also be ...

Owners can get a 40 percent discount on a new Nest Wifi Owners can get a 40 percent discount on a new Nest Wifi When it still seemed unusual for Google and Amazon to make their own hardware, Google ...

Google currently sells two smart displays, the second-gen, seven-inch Nest Hub and the first-gen, 10-inch Nest Hub Max—both are filled with so many functions that you may not have gotten around to ...

As previously mentioned in a November 2017 write-up, for nearly a half-decade now I’ve been happily running a mesh Wi-Fi network based on TP-Link-developed Google OnHub devices. In that November 2017 ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. OnHub routers will continue to function indefinitely, but they'll no longer receive software updates starting on December 19, ...