The gallery below has some more inside photos and commentary. Note the dedicated monitor radio found in OnHub is not part of GWiFi. Table 1: Component summary and comparison – Skyworks SKY66109-11 2.4 GHz ZigBee front end – Silicon Labs EM3581 ZigBee / Thread SoC – Skyworks SKY85716-11 5 GHz RF front end (x2) – Skyworks SKY85717-11 5 GHz front end (x2) Skyworks RFX8425 2.4 GHz RF front end (x2) – Skyworks SKY8530 2.4 GHz front end (x2) – Infineon STM9615 Trusted Platform Module – Qualcomm IPQ4019 Wave2 2×2 a/b/g/n/ac SoC But eero continues to be the only three-pack mesh product with two 5 GHz radios. It’s pretty obvious why eero needs to keep its price high compared to Luma and Wifi. Google reports that OnHub does have a Trusted Platform Module. Neither of these were found in either OnHub.

The other surprise is the STM32F072 32 bit ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller and Infineon STM9615 Trusted Platform Module. The device with a Qualcomm logo in the right side RF can is most likely the Bluetooth radio, but I couldn’t find any reference to the part number marked on it. But OnHub has supported ZigBee-based Philips Hue bulbs since August and since GWifi also supports Philips Hue bulbs, Google Wifi’s ZigBee radio is also functional. This is the same combo found in the TP-Link and ASUS OnHubs, but it’s not mentioned in any Google Wifi documentation, per se. The upper left RF can holds a surprise – a Silicon Labs EM3581 ZigBee / Thread SoC and Skyworks ZigBee front end.

Instead, it has a USB C connector that right now serves only to bring power in. But GWifi doesn’t have the (currently) non-functional USB 2.0 port that eero and Luma sport. All come in small off-white plastic packages (Google refers to theirs as 'Wifi points'), as shown in the group photo below, designed for high WAF.Īll three also come with two Gigabit Ethernet ports and have AC1200 class radios.

All three aim at the consumer who wants easy setup, as in plug-it-in-and-it-works. Google Wifi (yes, that’s how Google spells it) takes an approach similar to Luma and eero in form and features. But since GWifi’s key competition, eero and Luma, are much smaller fish, GWifi wouldn’t have to do much to create some serious potholes in their road to long-term viability. Google’s first attempt - OnHub - didn’t put much of a dent in the incumbent consumer Wi-Fi makers’ market share.

Google caused a stir in the emerging mesh Wi-Fi universe when it announced in October it too was getting into the game with Google Wifi.

Google wifi extender