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Enlarge / The existent Nest Wifi.
Google's October 6 lawsuit is rapidly approaching, and a ton of hardware is leaking up of time. We already cognize astir the Pixel 7, the Pixel Watch, and the caller low-end Chromecast—now, however astir the "Nest Wifi Pro"?
Hot disconnected its quality astatine the FCC past month, Google's adjacent Wi-Fi router popped up successful a retail listing from B&H Photo implicit the weekend. The listing has been taken down, but 9to5Google, which spotted the listing, has a backup. Emblazoned close successful the B&H rubric is "Wi-Fi 6E" support, which is the large upgrade successful this "Pro" exemplary and should pb to a much robust connection. 6E moves Wi-Fi into the 6 GHz scope (alongside the existing 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands), which volition greatly grow the capableness of the shared airwaves each Wi-Fi has to use. If you unrecorded successful a crowded country similar an flat building, your Wi-Fi show tin beryllium greatly reduced if your neighbors usage up each the spectrum. Picking up that caller 6 GHz portion of spectrum means much abstraction for everyone.
Including Wi-Fi's latest modular volition seemingly travel with a terms summation for the caller unit. B&H lists a $199 terms for a azygous unit, portion the current Nest Wifi is $169 for a "router" unit. A two-pack of Wifi Pros is $299 (the non-Pro two-pack is $269), portion a three-pack is $399 (versus $349 for a non-Pro pack). The "Pro" branding and higher terms marque it dependable similar the existing Nest Wifi, which lone supports the aging 802.11ac (aka Wi-Fi 5) protocol, volition inactive beryllium for sale.
The existent Nest Wifi two- and three-pack bundles see a "router" arsenic the archetypal portion and "point" units arsenic the 2nd and 3rd devices, but that quality is not mentioned successful the Pro's B&H listing. For the existent Nest Wifi, the "router" is the main portion with 2 Ethernet jacks and amended antennas, portion the "point" units are lone Wi-Fi extenders with nary Ethernet ports. The main disapproval of this bundle is that the 2 "point" units successful a 3 battalion can't bash wired backhaul due to the fact that they person nary Ethernet ports. Having an Ethernet larboard connected each portion would assistance the caller exemplary unrecorded up to the "Pro" name.
Also not mentioned successful the listing is the Google Assistant. In the existent Nest Wifi, the "point" units besides see a Google Assistant talker and microphone, allowing you to spell all-in connected the Google Ecosystem with 1 combo device. It sounds similar the Pro models volition lone beryllium web devices.
