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the google on hub router on their product page some of the first text you

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run into is that the onhub gives you fast wi-fi good uh

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good to know it also states that the onhub speaks human that it's helpful

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feedback and simple setup will be easy to use we will check these things out

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and we'll test its performance to see if it's worth a damn so stay tuned to find

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this router is a collaboration between google and TP-Link but why you might ask

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that's a very valid question it seems like the combined attack is designed to

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conquer the frustration of people who don't want to or don't know how to go

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through the advanced process of setting up your network and the onhub also seems

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to be designed specifically for a wi-fi signal crowded apartment which can kind

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of be a war zone for certain routers and can cause a huge amount of signal

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reception issues in terms of specs this two-pound 7.5 inches tall 4.6 inch

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diameter flower pot esque router is packing a dual core 1.4 gigahertz

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processor four gigs of e mmc flash one

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gig of ddr3l memory one usb 3.0 port a

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three watt speaker ambient light sensor six tri-color led arrays bluetooth 4.0

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802.15.4 conformance gigabit wan

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broadcasted by six 2.4 gigahertz antennas and six 5.0 gigahertz antennas

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and finally a single lonely gigabit lan port with one more thing let's not

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forget the last single 2.4 gigahertz antenna which we'll talk about later so

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yeah i hear you a standard 1900 megabit

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per second ac wi-fi router with one gigabit lan out connection for 200 bucks

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it needs to prove itself and we'll get to that in a moment but first there are

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a few oddities in that spec list that we should explore now that single 2.4

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gigahertz antenna that's kind of off by itself is actually just a dedicated

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antenna for finding the most appropriate channel to broadcast on which is

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actually pretty cool it will search every about five minutes i believe and

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it won't switch channels unless you're not really using the internet so that

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can be kind of handy so that it can be the most efficient for you when you get

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home but the bluetooth radio the usb 3.0 port and all that compliance gear is all

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kind of off at the moment of filming and the

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certain speakers like the three watt speaker are kind of not properly

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utilized in my opinion then there's the ambient light sensor like what do you do

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anyways this will all be working for google on in the form of a brillo

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enabled device using the common language protocol called weave but as far as i

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know there isn't anything out that can communicate with the google on hub in

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this way yet you're paying for all that

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compatibility now the value of this part of the onhub is currently just a giant

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question mark so this is the onhub in the box you'll

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get a kind of power brick thing that's plugged into the wall already two

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Ethernet cables that'll come wrapped up like this they're flat which is pretty

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nice but they're not all that long neither is the wall power plug thing um

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it's kind of interesting because in a lot of their product stuff they show it

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on shelves like bookshelves and whatnot and that

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might be fairly difficult for some people to get power and Ethernet too so

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i don't know about that but if you can make it work then it does actually look

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pretty good we have the blue one there's a black one as well on the bottom of the

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onhub you'll see kind of a half circle symbol right below where it says onhub

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that will line up with another half circle at the bottom to take the outer

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shell off all you have to do is turn it so that it lines up with the dot and

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then you can lift it off i already have it plugged into Ethernet and power and

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you can see at the top there's a blue ring there's a piece of paper somewhere

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that i don't remember where it is right now but it basically says a solid blue

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ring means that you're good to go a teal ring means that it's ready to be set up

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and an amber ring means that there's a problem and no light means well it's not

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receiving power which is fairly self-explanatory i've already downloaded

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the app so let's get going so in the app now it is actually very simple but

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there's a few cool things like this is how it uses the three watt speaker first

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off it finds the on hub but then it communicates a secret code through audio

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it's kind of interesting you'll see in a sec

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all right so now we got the code it's going to connect to the onhub

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just setting up the wireless name please don't use a password that bad for

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anything ever

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and that's it now we're in the app it's pretty straightforward in wi-fi access

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you can reveal your password and even actually share your password using this

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button through social media or email or whatever i don't really recommend using

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this password and i don't really recommend using that because having a full copy of your

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password on the cloud somewhere is probably not the

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most secure way to do things now i'm gonna have to change this a little bit

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because as it is complaining i have another router on this network and i'm

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not bringing that one down so i'm going to turn this into bridge mode and then we're going to test it against the

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ruckus r710 this is not going to be a very fair test this router is like over

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twelve hundred dollars and this one is two hundred dollars but we can see kind

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of how good it is in general and have a kind of

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best possible scenario comparison against it

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okay so now we're actually testing the ruckus and the on hub what i'm going to

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use for testing them is the wi-fi adapter that runs off of the x99 deluxe

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board that we have the reason for that is this is actually the only thing that

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can receive three by three memo wi-fi connections that we have so i have to

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haul this thing around it's gonna be super annoying don't worry about it i've

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already tested the on hub and the onhub is currently unplugged we're going to be

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testing in a whole bunch of different scenarios we're testing in here just

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kind of across the table retesting through the wall in the benchmarking

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room through the wall and a bunch of random metal stuff and a few other

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things in the library and then also

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upstairs in Linus's office then i'm going to do a range test while just like

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watching a twitch stream and walking and waiting till it disconnects so this is

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the first test like i said i already have the onhub numbers and we're going

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to do a file transfer test not a speedtest.net

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because it's more representative we have an SSD array server so file transfer

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speeds should be fine so first thing i'm going to do is going to try transferring

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the test file from the server to our computer just past one minute and 20

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seconds almost done done one minute 24 seconds now i'm going

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to upload from the computer to the server

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one minute 51 seconds one minute 28 seconds 0.1

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122.4 two minutes and seven seconds point

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eight so we are connected to turn up wi-fi as you can see turn up wi-fi is our on hub

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router now i'm just gonna jump over here we are watching a twitch tv show this is

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faceit tv and we're just going to kind of walk out of the office and see how

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far we can go until it disconnects still totally working i'm going to go towards

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this construction site

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it's buffering but i'm not entirely sure if that's the router's problem

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yes i have lost my rotor signal it's got some pretty

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hardcore stuff to contend with but i'm wondering the ruckus might win this one

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all right so now we're gonna do the range walking test just like we did with the on hub but with the ruckus r710

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going out the door still working

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still connected to wi-fi oh

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nope i'm off wi-fi now so i've lost wi-fi so our very unscientific range

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test has shown that the ruckus r710 made it to here

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and the onhub made it

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three four five six

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seven random luke side steps further

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whatever that means and we're back and

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that was not expected i when pitching a

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200 rotor against a 1200 ap in an ap

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style test you'd expect the 1200 ap to just

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completely run away with everything and that's not actually what happened the

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onhub won in most scenarios granted not

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by a lot but it did and in some scenarios it was a fairly significant

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amount that being said there was the one random test in the editing den where the

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ruckus just totally ran away with it the

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one time but that's not that significant in the

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grand scheme of things it didn't represent all the other tests that we ran and then even when we did the

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walking test outside it's still lost and by a pretty significant amount that

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being said it was still running quite fast and ruckus's strength is focused

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around a massive amount of users which i can't really represent here all that

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well i'm not a school i can't have like 30 different students with phones

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and laptops all running at the same time i actually don't have enough devices for

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that that being said i could get a pretty heavy load but

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it the onhub has a really strong CPU for a router in it for like a random 200

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router so it might be able to kind of keep up with that as well it was

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interesting i'm very impressed with the onhub but it comes down to a few

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different things you lose a lot of your customizability you can't change a huge

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amount of options on the on hub you can almost change nothing you can set into

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bridge mode you can change your password there's not much more than that to be

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completely honest whereas the ruckus you have total control over a huge amount of

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stuff especially if you get the control hub thing um and

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there's always the kind of freaky part about what data exactly is google taking

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off of this there's what they tell us they're taking off of it but tinfoil hat

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on they could definitely be taking more

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anyways for the value it actually seems really strong it's an extremely

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extremely competent router for 200 with mystery features coming in the future

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