This is Google Wi-Fi.
It claims to be a smart and simple mesh Wi-Fi system.
Basically if you have Wi-Fi problems Google Wi-Fi
should be able to fix it.
These have been out for almost two years
but are they still great?
I'm Titus.
This is The Search For Awesome.
And this is my Google Wi-Fi Review.
One interesting thing that Google claims
is Google Wi-Fi smartly manages the traffic
of the devices trying to connect your Wi-Fi.
It does this auto magically so at all times so you are getting
the best Wi-Fi experience.
Personally I think this might be its best feature although
I might just be falling for their marketing
because maybe other routers do this to some degree but I've
been using it for a few weeks now and I've almost
run into like no Wi-Fi issues whereas my previous
Wi-Fi system when given to me by AT&T I had lots of problems.
One thing to Wi-Fi allows you to do is to give
priority to certain devices on your network.
So let's say I was live streaming on my MacBook
or something.
I can make sure that the network gives
as much bandwidth as possible to my laptop and you can even
do something as simple as controlling
the brightness of the Wi-Fis LED I turn mine off
because one of them is next to a TV and another
one is in a bedroom.
And neither of those places do any that light
in terms of speed.
I'd have just 60 megabits per second.
And now I get that speed all throughout my house.
I think a lot of you are going to be just as interested
on how easy it is to set up as you are and how
well it blankets your house and Wi-Fi goodness.
Now they sell these as just one unit.
And also as a three pack My house is two
stories and 2000 square feet.
So it might be small enough for just one but I'll
probably need at least two of these.
And look at that.
That's a nice looking box.
Now on the bottom here you can see there's
like a spot to charge it.
USB-C style and then two Ethernet jacks.
So I just set up the Google Wi-Fi and it seems
like it's going to be a pretty fast process.
I need to just plug the Ethernet from my
modem into it and then plug this into the wall.
And there you go.
It is now flashing blue.
That means it's ready for me to set up with the app.
But before I do that I'm going to go plug another one
of these into a wall upstairs.
Okeydoke.
Those are both set up.
One thing that is probably worth noting is you do
need a smartphone to set up Google Wi-Fi and Android
or an iPhone will do.
So I'm downloading the Google Wi-Fi app right now.
OK says Google Wi-Fi point found and so it's telling me
to select my primary Wi-Fi.
Point.
It's this one.
So now wants me to get a picture of little
code at the very bottom so I'll be right back.
So after I took that picture it has been doing all
kinds of things and I like the animations here.
So now it's asking if I hooked up other Wi-Fi points and now
I have to scan another QR code.
Okay so just installing software updates right
now for the Google Wi-Fi.
The whole process of doing this is like 10 minutes.
That's really fast and it's just kind
of doing all the hard work for you which is awesome.
Now I do have fiber internet from AT&T and I can upgrade
my speed to one gigabit at basically any time I want to.
I don't mind paying a bit more.
So I was curious about what is the max speed
that this Wi-Fi system supports.
I didn't have a way of testing this so I looked online
and trusted reviews claims it doesn't really get
much faster than about 500 megabits per second.
But as you can see here that's sort of the best case scenario
because as you get further and further away from your main
router speeds can drop to as low as 50 megabits per second
which I will note is still pretty good
speed but maybe not fantastic.
I also took advantage of its ability to set up a guest
network within the Google Wi-Fi app.
So I can let guests use my Wi-Fi without having
access to my entire network.
And what's cool is in the app the passwords
to both of my networks are really easy to find
inside the app.
But I would like to see some more smarts here like a way
to maybe push a button on the Wi-Fi unit
and then give a guest internet access auto
magically but this works well enough.
I think what I like most is that Google Wi-Fi just
doesn't get in the way it just makes things really easy
and even after you've set it up there's a test you can
run within the Wi-Fi app to make sure that your Wi-Fi
units are getting good internet signal and can
communicate well if they're close enough together
if you do that test and then it gives
you a thumbs up and then you should be
just fine.
It has family friendly options where you can limit your kids
devices access to the Internet.
So for your kids phone laptop tablet you can enable Google
safe search and that will help keep their innocent eyes
from things they shouldn't see.
Although from what I understand this isn't exactly a magic
bullet but it's good to have you can set timers to lock
your kids devices off the internet like let's say
during dinnertime or maybe at nighttime or you could just use
this feature to annoy your wife.
Not that I would ever do that and through the app
you can even set it up to allow you to control
your network on the go.
So if you're traveling and little Timmy isn't behaving
you can just flip off his Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi is for good little boys TImmy.
Now I didn't get around to trying this but it even
has Google home and echo support.
So in theory you can control your Wi-Fi with your voice.
Now Google Wi-Fi is made by Google right
so they love collecting data.
To be honest this concerns me a bit
because they could in theory use my
awesome new Wi-Fi to see everything that I'm
doing on the Internet.
One thing that does give me comfort though is according
to CNET Google says the Wi-Fi doesn't collect user activity
data like what sites you're visiting and by default
it only appears to collect like hardware app
and network related information although
you can disable that inside the Wi-Fi app if you please.
One last thing I will mention is for my day job I sometimes
you have to work from home and to do that I have to access
my works VPN and my old router did a horrible job of kicking
me off constantly from the VPN.
I have to reconnect reauthenticate.
It was very annoying with Google Wi-Fi.
This just doesn't happen nearly as much.
It does happen from time to time still
but it's much more workable.
It's like once every four hours.
Maybe I'll get kicked off.
So conclusion time CNET says that Google Wi-Fi
is the best way to blanket your entire home with Wi-Fi.
And I can't help but agree.
Normally Google updates their products on a yearly basis
but perhaps this Wi-Fi router was so ahead of its time
that I guess they figured why fix what isn't broken
so they haven't updated in a while but it's still
great but I'll be frank I don't know if this is the best Wi-Fi
mesh on the market but this has met and exceeded
my expectations.
It's just crazy easy to manage and crazy easy to setup.
I'm sure there are more cost effective options
because this isn't exactly a cheap Wi-Fi system
but this one is very popular and there
is what I like to call safety in numbers when it comes
to tech.
It's kind of like this like if you remember
recently when the iPhone was accused of having a beauty
mode on their newest iPhones.
It was like front page everywhere and even though
it wasn't exactly true it seemed like it was more of a bug.
But tons of people were upset and Apple was forced to fix
the issue and sort of like that Google Wi-Fi is very
popular and if there's an issue they will be accountable
and it's backed by Google and I sort of kind
of blindly trust Google even though I probably shouldn't.
In any case if your current Wi-Fi setup
isn't doing it for you I can absolutely
recommend Google Wi-Fi.
Thanks for watching and if you don't mind let
me know what you thought with a like or dislike
and if you really liked it.
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tech content just like this coming up very soon.
Thanks again.
And I guess I'll see you next time when The Search
For Awesome continues.
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