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Re: OnHub

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Post by gregpilling »

fraXis wrote: post #78

I see no mention of being able to use 2 or 3 of these things in an Wi-Fi extender type of scenario that I can do with my current Airport Extreme routers.

I was wondering the same thing.

Re: OnHub

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Post by zf00002 »

binarysolo wrote: post #6

$200 for the unit -- so it's competing on the higher end of consumer routers against offerings such as Apple's Airport. They seemed to have paid a lot of attention to human-friendly UI/UX though. Would probably wait for reviews to see what's up.

At $200 you're in the price range of just building yourself a pfsense box.

Re: OnHub

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Post by scott_karana »

untog wrote: post #111

About the only real improvement I'm seeing here is the automatic, silent updates. That could be a lifesaver if a crucial bug were ever found. Aside from that, eh. It looks good, I don't doubt that with that number of antennas etc. it'll work well, but if anyone else is like me they've long since forgotten what their router even is - it just sits there, doing its job, and has done for years. I find the intelligent NAS…

> automatic, silent updates. That could be a lifesaver if a crucial bug were ever found.

And what if a crucial bug was introduced? ;)

Re: OnHub

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Post by jessaustin »

bizzleDawg wrote: post #122
ghola2k5 wrote: post #23

Coolest thing I see is on the NewEgg page where it says it's "weave" ready, and you can see the Zigbee/Bluetooth radios. It's a router, and it's the smart home hub.

I'm really surprised this part didn't generate more attention from the HN crowd. Currently IoT devices always end up having some kind of protocol adaptor unit, like wifi->zigbee and it sucks! As far as I know, the Almond+ is the only other router with 802.15.4 support.

I've been quite pleased with my Almond+. Certainly more than I have been with other Kickstarter stuff.

Re: OnHub

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Post by fraserharris »

mtgx wrote: post #41
adriancooney wrote: post #3

Very 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…

This was a primary motivation for Google+ as well - a single unified login under one unified privacy policy.

Re: OnHub

#147

Post by so898 »

Only one LAN port? This reminds me of the HiWifi router which build by a Chinese company. I still think this one LAN port design is terrible.

Re: OnHub

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Post by pratikch »

it could have been better if google have added storage and caching facility right on the box, that would've helped people to reduce the total data usage for passive contents like videos.

Re: OnHub

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Post by noja »

and dust? it can't be for out in the open with an open rim around the top.
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