Google appears poised to motorboat an updated Nest router equipped with Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Thread mesh networking radios aboriginal this year, according to a caller FCC filing. It has the exemplary fig A4R-G6ZUC, which is akin to IDs assigned to not lone the erstwhile Nest Wifi but besides the Nest Mini, Thermostat, and adjacent the Google Glass.

In June, a root confirmed with 9to5Google that a caller Google / Nest router was connected its way, and now the outlet says it has confirmed this is the exemplary fig for that device.

The filing’s interior and outer pictures stay confidential and unlisted but interruption down the wireless exertion onboard arsenic good arsenic an “Internal Proprietary Antenna Solution consisting of 6 antennas”:

• 2 x 2.4GHz / 5GHz dual set antennas for BT, Thread, 5GHz Wi-Fi Primary
• 2 x 5GHz Wi-Fi Diversity
• 2 x 2.4GHz / 6GHz dual set antennas for Wi-Fi

Unlike their Wi-Fi 6 predecessors, Wi-Fi 6E routers person a caller 6GHz set — successful summation to 2.4GHz and 5GHz — for compatible devices to link to, reducing awesome interference and providing faster speeds. Even if you don’t person galore devices that tin link connected 6GHz yet, the set tin beryllium utilized to backhaul section communications betwixt entree points, taking immoderate of the sound retired of the web that tin summation show for different connected devices.

While the 9.6Gbps theoretical apical velocity is unchanged from Wi-Fi 6, the caller spectrum should let devices to usage the maximum allowed transmission size and scope higher speeds successful real-world situations, possibly astir 1–2Gbps with little latency than you’re utilized to from a wireless connection.

Since the merchandise of the archetypal Nest Wifi, astute location devices similar the HomePod Mini adopted Thread — a portion of the astute location interoperability modular Google adopted known arsenic Matter. Thread tin make a dedicated web conscionable for astute location devices, making them much reliable and responsive nary substance the manufacturer.

It’s imaginable that the caller Wi-Fi 6E Google / Nest router volition beryllium retired by the extremity of the year. The current Nest Wifi bundle comes with a router and azygous mesh constituent and sells for $269 regularly, but the terms could summation similar the competition’s this clip around. TP-Link’s mesh Wi-Fi 6E option, for instance, comes successful a brace arsenic good for $299, and the Eero Pro 6E from Amazon comes successful astatine $499 for a pair.