“Bro, you completely have to take a look at my new router” is a sentence that’s in all probability by no means been uttered, however that would now change due to Google’s new Nest Wifi Professional.
Resembling a gloriously juicy, fruity candy, the curvaceous router is offered in a variety of tantalisingly shiny colors, trying adequate to proudly show on a desk or shelf, fairly than cover away beneath dusty cable-riddled sideboards.
Seems to be apart, standout options embody Wi-Fi 6E compatibility for blazing-fast speeds — assuming you’ve bought different Wi-Fi 6E-capable gadgets to make the most of it, that’s. Contemplating that the earlier technology Nest Wifi was launched in 2019, it is a noticeable enhance in efficiency.
As earlier than, you should buy a number of routers if you wish to create a mesh community to cowl bigger areas with out a drop in sign power and velocity, with every equivalent router with the ability to act as a mesh unit with none {hardware} variations between them.
Every router options two gigabit Ethernet ports, and may also act as a Thread border router (with future help to behave as a Matter hub), which, in brief, means you possibly can create an all-encompassing low-power community to attach all your suitable good gadgets.
Sadly (although maybe understandably), there’s no built-in speaker and Google Assistant help on this newest iteration. Relying on the place you retain your router, this may very well be devasting or some extent of full indifference, however at the very least setting issues up and configuring choices like a visitor community can be easy through Google’s Dwelling app.
Obtainable to preorder now in Snow, Linen, Fog, and Lemongrass (fairly pleasant names, if we are saying so ourselves), the Google Nest Wifi Professional will land on cabinets on 27 October, ranging from £189.99 for a single router. Sadly there’s no two-pack bundle, however you possibly can nab a set of three for £379.99, should you fancy.
These of you hoping for backwards compatibility with earlier technology Nest routers ought to observe that there isn’t any, so that you’ll should get a brand new set from scratch if you wish to improve.
