This is something that will be amazing to reverse engineer too actually. Something similar to bunnie taking apart the xbox.
OnHub
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Re: OnHub
#62From the design goals outlined in the FAQ, it seems clear to me that Google expects there to be a great deal more bandwidth hungry devices in the home speaking first to each other, and then out to the WAN, in the near term.
Including Bluetooth, Weave, and Thread, along with up to 128 devices, gives me a rough sense of the scale of connected devices they anticipate in each home. Given that it also has a reasonable compute capabilities and cooling as one of the highlights, I think it's far to say that it could do a lot of processing on its own before reaching back home to the GOOG DCs.
Re: OnHub
#63Looks like a direct competitor to Apple's airport series: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/ME918/airport-extreme
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#64The only privacy link I could find on the page was Google's generic privacy policy. Is there more information somewhere? With its "advanced and always-evolving security features", I'm wondering whether and what information Google would be gathering about my local network and my network traffic.
From the Terms of Service linked from the support site https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6270620?hl=en&ref_to... "You agree that Google may collect and use technical and related information, including but not limited to information about your computer and/or mobile device, operating system, peripherals, applications, connected devices, network traffic, and data use to facilitate the provision of the Software an…
I wouldn't trust Google with this much access to my internet traffic.
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#65So what does this device primarily do that I need right now? Just throttling internet for certain devices and prioritizing others? I'm not even entirely sure what 'uses smart software to find the best WiFi connection' means. What's the value prop here given the device costs $200? It's not like it can better your internet somehow.
It does have prioritizing:
https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6246483
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#66Can anyone explain why a Router needs 4GB of storage ? What do they mean by "OnHub has 4GB of storage space, so there’s plenty of room for auto-updates and the latest software features." ? Is software for a router that large ?
From the Open Source Licences page, it seems to be running on (a modified version of?) Chromium OS:
Re: OnHub
#67Very interesting. From looking at the specs, it looks like they're packaging a server and marketing it as a router. The configuration app is a very nice touch, routers have always a pain to configure. I'd love to stick this in my apartment (even though I can only receive a maximum of 10mb/s). As a side note, I'm surprised this isn't marketed alongside the Nest branch. It really has the look and feel of Nest products…
> routers have always a pain to configure
Eh? You must buy some shitty routers, no offense.
Compared to the rest of the market, paying $200 for a router isn't competitive. It just is not worth it given Google's "eh-we-will-do-it-and-stop-if-people-complain/sue" mindset.
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To Melvin, since I'm submitting to fast:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013ALA9LA?ref=spks_0_0_2170510902&...
> OnHub Wireless Router from Google and TP-LINK > by TP-LINK
1) You complain about the quality of TP-LINK products and think the solution is....another TP-LINK product, likely measured in the same way.
2) Honestly, I cannot think of a consumer AP that would actually perform to your expectations [apartment complex with 30+ competitors, saturating all the channels] that would be priced at $300, let alone $200. I can tell you right now, this Google AP won't do it either. Its "up to 1900mbps" for a reason. Trust me. Buying this won't be a magical solution to your problems if you real world gigabit speeds.
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To the folks complaining about "magical routers":
A) Buy something from Ubiquiti Networks.
B) Buy something you can flash with WRT firmware.
In both cases, as long as you understand the hardware specs, you'll get something better than the norm. In Ubiquiti's case, I'm 99% sure it will outperform a Google branded TP-Link AP unless Google is heavily subsidizing and QAing everything.
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#68Very interesting. From looking at the specs, it looks like they're packaging a server and marketing it as a router. The configuration app is a very nice touch, routers have always a pain to configure. I'd love to stick this in my apartment (even though I can only receive a maximum of 10mb/s). As a side note, I'm surprised this isn't marketed alongside the Nest branch. It really has the look and feel of Nest products…
To understand why certain products, which are seemingly unrelated to Google's core competency, have stayed with Google and haven't moved on to Alphabet, or why Google created a product such as OnHub and not Nest, you have to realize why all of these product are under Google - to track all the data that goes through them under the same generic/unified "privacy" policy, and then feed it into its advertising system. Tha…
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Re: OnHub
#69It speaks, but does it listen? (Have a microphone)?
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#70So what does this device primarily do that I need right now? Just throttling internet for certain devices and prioritizing others? I'm not even entirely sure what 'uses smart software to find the best WiFi connection' means. What's the value prop here given the device costs $200? It's not like it can better your internet somehow.
The only way I can interpret that quote is, "it can automatically switch wifi radio channels when the one its using gets congested". I don't know, maybe there's more to it than that.
Because $40 routers can do that.