the google on hub router on their product page some of the first text you
run into is that the onhub gives you fast wi-fi good uh
good to know it also states that the onhub speaks human that it's helpful
feedback and simple setup will be easy to use we will check these things out
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this router is a collaboration between google and TP-Link but why you might ask
that's a very valid question it seems like the combined attack is designed to
conquer the frustration of people who don't want to or don't know how to go
through the advanced process of setting up your network and the onhub also seems
to be designed specifically for a wi-fi signal crowded apartment which can kind
of be a war zone for certain routers and can cause a huge amount of signal
reception issues in terms of specs this two-pound 7.5 inches tall 4.6 inch
diameter flower pot esque router is packing a dual core 1.4 gigahertz
processor four gigs of e mmc flash one
gig of ddr3l memory one usb 3.0 port a
three watt speaker ambient light sensor six tri-color led arrays bluetooth 4.0
802.15.4 conformance gigabit wan
broadcasted by six 2.4 gigahertz antennas and six 5.0 gigahertz antennas
and finally a single lonely gigabit lan port with one more thing let's not
forget the last single 2.4 gigahertz antenna which we'll talk about later so
yeah i hear you a standard 1900 megabit
per second ac wi-fi router with one gigabit lan out connection for 200 bucks
it needs to prove itself and we'll get to that in a moment but first there are
a few oddities in that spec list that we should explore now that single 2.4
gigahertz antenna that's kind of off by itself is actually just a dedicated
antenna for finding the most appropriate channel to broadcast on which is
actually pretty cool it will search every about five minutes i believe and
it won't switch channels unless you're not really using the internet so that
can be kind of handy so that it can be the most efficient for you when you get
home but the bluetooth radio the usb 3.0 port and all that compliance gear is all
kind of off at the moment of filming and the
certain speakers like the three watt speaker are kind of not properly
utilized in my opinion then there's the ambient light sensor like what do you do
anyways this will all be working for google on in the form of a brillo
enabled device using the common language protocol called weave but as far as i
know there isn't anything out that can communicate with the google on hub in
this way yet you're paying for all that
compatibility now the value of this part of the onhub is currently just a giant
question mark so this is the onhub in the box you'll
get a kind of power brick thing that's plugged into the wall already two
Ethernet cables that'll come wrapped up like this they're flat which is pretty
nice but they're not all that long neither is the wall power plug thing um
it's kind of interesting because in a lot of their product stuff they show it
on shelves like bookshelves and whatnot and that
might be fairly difficult for some people to get power and Ethernet too so
i don't know about that but if you can make it work then it does actually look
pretty good we have the blue one there's a black one as well on the bottom of the
onhub you'll see kind of a half circle symbol right below where it says onhub
that will line up with another half circle at the bottom to take the outer
shell off all you have to do is turn it so that it lines up with the dot and
then you can lift it off i already have it plugged into Ethernet and power and
you can see at the top there's a blue ring there's a piece of paper somewhere
that i don't remember where it is right now but it basically says a solid blue
ring means that you're good to go a teal ring means that it's ready to be set up
and an amber ring means that there's a problem and no light means well it's not
receiving power which is fairly self-explanatory i've already downloaded
the app so let's get going so in the app now it is actually very simple but
there's a few cool things like this is how it uses the three watt speaker first
off it finds the on hub but then it communicates a secret code through audio
it's kind of interesting you'll see in a sec
all right so now we got the code it's going to connect to the onhub
just setting up the wireless name please don't use a password that bad for
anything ever
and that's it now we're in the app it's pretty straightforward in wi-fi access
you can reveal your password and even actually share your password using this
button through social media or email or whatever i don't really recommend using
this password and i don't really recommend using that because having a full copy of your
password on the cloud somewhere is probably not the
most secure way to do things now i'm gonna have to change this a little bit
because as it is complaining i have another router on this network and i'm
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
ruckus r710 this is not going to be a very fair test this router is like over
twelve hundred dollars and this one is two hundred dollars but we can see kind
of how good it is in general and have a kind of
best possible scenario comparison against it
okay so now we're actually testing the ruckus and the on hub what i'm going to
use for testing them is the wi-fi adapter that runs off of the x99 deluxe
board that we have the reason for that is this is actually the only thing that
can receive three by three memo wi-fi connections that we have so i have to
haul this thing around it's gonna be super annoying don't worry about it i've
already tested the on hub and the onhub is currently unplugged we're going to be
testing in a whole bunch of different scenarios we're testing in here just
kind of across the table retesting through the wall in the benchmarking
room through the wall and a bunch of random metal stuff and a few other
things in the library and then also
upstairs in Linus's office then i'm going to do a range test while just like
watching a twitch stream and walking and waiting till it disconnects so this is
the first test like i said i already have the onhub numbers and we're going
to do a file transfer test not a speedtest.net
because it's more representative we have an SSD array server so file transfer
speeds should be fine so first thing i'm going to do is going to try transferring
the test file from the server to our computer just past one minute and 20
seconds almost done done one minute 24 seconds now i'm going
to upload from the computer to the server
one minute 51 seconds one minute 28 seconds 0.1
122.4 two minutes and seven seconds point
eight so we are connected to turn up wi-fi as you can see turn up wi-fi is our on hub
router now i'm just gonna jump over here we are watching a twitch tv show this is
faceit tv and we're just going to kind of walk out of the office and see how
far we can go until it disconnects still totally working i'm going to go towards
this construction site
it's buffering but i'm not entirely sure if that's the router's problem
yes i have lost my rotor signal it's got some pretty
hardcore stuff to contend with but i'm wondering the ruckus might win this one
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
going out the door still working
still connected to wi-fi oh
nope i'm off wi-fi now so i've lost wi-fi so our very unscientific range
test has shown that the ruckus r710 made it to here
and the onhub made it
three four five six
seven random luke side steps further
whatever that means and we're back and
that was not expected i when pitching a
200 rotor against a 1200 ap in an ap
style test you'd expect the 1200 ap to just
completely run away with everything and that's not actually what happened the
onhub won in most scenarios granted not
by a lot but it did and in some scenarios it was a fairly significant
amount that being said there was the one random test in the editing den where the
ruckus just totally ran away with it the
one time but that's not that significant in the
grand scheme of things it didn't represent all the other tests that we ran and then even when we did the
walking test outside it's still lost and by a pretty significant amount that
being said it was still running quite fast and ruckus's strength is focused
around a massive amount of users which i can't really represent here all that
well i'm not a school i can't have like 30 different students with phones
and laptops all running at the same time i actually don't have enough devices for
that that being said i could get a pretty heavy load but
it the onhub has a really strong CPU for a router in it for like a random 200
router so it might be able to kind of keep up with that as well it was
interesting i'm very impressed with the onhub but it comes down to a few
different things you lose a lot of your customizability you can't change a huge
amount of options on the on hub you can almost change nothing you can set into
bridge mode you can change your password there's not much more than that to be
completely honest whereas the ruckus you have total control over a huge amount of
stuff especially if you get the control hub thing um and
there's always the kind of freaky part about what data exactly is google taking
off of this there's what they tell us they're taking off of it but tinfoil hat
on they could definitely be taking more
anyways for the value it actually seems really strong it's an extremely
extremely competent router for 200 with mystery features coming in the future
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