Hi there YouTube, Josh Teder here from 6 Months later and today we're going to
take a look at the Google Wi-Fi router and get my first impressions of the
device. The Google Wi-Fi is a router that allows you to have multiple Google Wi-Fis
all connected together creating what's called a mesh Wi-Fi network and
the magic of the Google Wi-Fi like some of its competitors, is that it makes
setting up a mesh Wi-Fi network incredibly easy. Now the reason I was
drawn to getting a Google Wi-Fi is one I already have a few other Google devices
now, I've bought a couple of Google Homes, really big fan of Google's hardware
design, as well as their app design is just incredible, and the Google Wi-Fi app
is no exception. It is one of the best design apps I have ever used period. I
mean it is downright simple to use this app to set up a Wi-Fi network. Setting up
the Google Wi-Fi took like three minutes. I've never set up any Wi-Fi router that
has taken that sort of amount of time to get everything up and running, optimize
the network for the traffic coming across it, it has just been great so far.
One thing that become a Wi-Fi seem to fix that I was having trouble with my
Apple Airport extreme was on occasion the Apple Airport extreme would just
stop. It would it would just start kind of cycling it would like go offline and
come online, it would do this like I don't know every night around maybe nine
ten o'clock. There wasn't like a set time it did it but it always did it, if that
makes sense. And with Google Wi-Fi I don't have that
issue anymore the connection has just been solid, always-on. I kept blaming the
ISP for the issue with the Apple router when it looks like the issue was
actually just the Apple router. Now another thing to Google Wi-Fi router
really fixed for me and it was kind of a weird issue I was having with the Apple
router was if I was on the PlayStation 4 and I had the headphone in and I was talking
to some friends but I was also on my phone surfing the web, the phone's Wi-Fi
connection would actually interfere with the voice connection I got
through the PlayStation. And something that the Google Wi-Fi does and it's
marketed to do is it will actually scan your environment and make sure that your
devices are on channels that don't have a lot of traffic on them. So what I'm
assuming is the Google Wi-Fi can actually detect what's coming from the
play station and then move the phone to a different channel that doesn't
interfere on the same channel. I think that's how it works again I'm not
technical I probably just said something completely wrong and some Wi-Fi
networking expert is going to comment on this video and say you're an idiot, you
don't know what you're talking about. You're right, I don't,
I'm not a networking expert. I just want fast Wi-Fi, I want it to work, and I want
it to be simple, which is why I got the Google Wi-Fi. Now another feature I
really like about the Google Wi-Fi is its design. It's just this really kind of
sleek but simple design that looks like, again something that belongs in the home.
Very similar to the Google Home's design. Another thing I really like about the
Google Wi-Fi is it allows you to configure a lot of things. So if you want
to set up a guest network for your friends and family that come over, it is
very easy to do you can always see what your password is for your Wi-Fi network
as well as your guest networks from within the app, and it also allows you to
configure such things like the brightness of the LED on the router
itself. I cannot tell you what a lifesaver that is because most of the
time all my routers are all behind my television I just like having the router
there and having the light with insight so I can get a visual cue as to how my
network is doing. Now another thing that Google Wi-Fi makes super simple is Wi-Fi
speed and speed coming from your ISP to the router itself from the modem. You can
just go onto the app and it will tell you what speed you've been hitting and
what speed you've been hitting historically as well. You can of course
also test the Wi-Fi signal to a specific device. So if you have a phone it's going
to test based on where that phone is in your environment it's going to tell you
if the signals strong and then what the speed the phone is actually
receiving from the Wi-Fi router. Another cool thing that the Google Wi-Fi does is
you can actually prioritize devices on your Wi-Fi so if you're streaming an HD
movie on your television and you want that prioritized, you can do it it's just
like a checklist, just very similar to any other Google user interface. Super
simple, you just check TV on the list of boom, the Google Wi-Fi has temporarily
prioritized your TV so you can stream movies without any buffering. Really cool
feature. Overall I've been very impressed with my google Wi-Fi router, it delivers
a better experience and faster experience over Wi-Fi than I had with my
Apple airport extreme, though the two are pretty comparable it's just slightly
better than my Apple Airport Extreme. But where the Google Wi-Fi router really
shines is its app, it's app is killer. Google took a lot of time to design a
great user interface with their Google Wi-Fi app. It is a really really great
app, if you're just looking for a Wi-Fi router that's fast, that works, and that
has a great app where you can access all the information about your network from
the convenience of a smart phone the Google Wi-Fi is definitely going to be
something you want to consider. Now we'll have much more on the Google Wi-Fi in
the next six months and we'll even test out how the Google Wi-Fi matches up to
its competition as a mesh networking Wi-Fi router when we can test it in an
environment that's much bigger than my apartment.
Until then I'm Josh Teder and this has been a first look at the Google Wi-Fi.