 The Google OnHub router. On their product page, some of the first texts you run into is that the OnHub gives you fast Wi-Fi. Good, uh, good to know. It also states that the OnHub speaks human, that its helpful feedback and simple setup will be easy to use. We will check these things out and we'll test its performance to see if it's worth a damn. So stay tuned to find out and hit that like button below if you want to see me investigate the diminishing returns of adding more fans to your rig. Massdrop is launching three new communities for RC cars, photography and Corvette enthusiasts. Check them out in the links in the description and subscribe so you don't miss any updates. This router is a collaboration between Google and TP-Link. But why, you might ask. That's a very valid question. It seems like the combined attack is designed to conquer the frustration of people who don't want to or don't know how to go through the advanced process of setting up your network. And the OnHub also seems to be designed specifically for a Wi-Fi signal crowded apartment, which can kind of be a war zone for certain routers. It can cause a huge amount of signal reception issues. In terms of specs, this 2 pound 7.5 inches tall 4.6 inch diameter flower pot-esque router is packing a dual core 1.4 gigahertz processor, 4 gigs of eMMC flash, 1 gig of DDR3L memory, 1 USB 3.0 port, a 3 watt speaker, ambient light sensor, 6 tri-color LED arrays, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.15.4 conformance, gigabit WAN broadcasted by 6, 2.4 gigahertz. antennas and 6, 5.0 gigahertz antennas. And finally, a single lonely gigabit LAN port with one more thing. Let's not forget the last single 2.4 gigahertz antenna, which we'll talk about later. So yeah, I hear you. A standard 1900 megabit per second AC Wi-Fi router with one gigabit LAN out connection for 200 bucks. It needs to prove itself. And we'll get to that in a moment. But first, there are a few oddities in that spec list that we should explore. Now that single 2.4 gigahertz antenna that's kind of off by itself is actually just a dedicated antenna for finding the most appropriate channel to broadcast on, which is actually pretty cool. It will search every about five minutes, I believe, and it won't switch channels unless you're not really using the internet. So that can be kind of handy so that it can be the most efficient for you when you get home. But the Bluetooth radio, the USB 3.0 port, and all that compliance gear is all kind of off at the moment of filming, and the certain speakers, like the 3 watt speaker, are kind of not properly utilized, in my opinion. Then there's the ambient light sensor. Like, what do you do? Anyways, this will all be working for Google On in the form of a Brillo-enabled device using the common language protocol called Weave. But as far as I know, there isn't anything out that can communicate with the Google On hub in this way. Yet you're paying for all that compatibility now. The value of this part of the On hub is currently just a giant question mark. So this is the On hub. In the box, you'll get a kind of power brick thing that's plugged into the wall already. Two ethernet cables that'll come wrapped up like this. They're flat, which is pretty nice, but they're not all that long. Neither is the wall power plug thing. It's kind of interesting because a lot of their product stuff, they show it on shelves, like bookshelves and whatnot, and that might be fairly difficult for some people to get power and ethernet to. So I don't know about that. But if you can make it work, then it does actually look pretty good. We have the blue one. There's a black one as well. On the bottom of the On hub, you'll see kind of a half circle symbol right below where it says On hub. That will line up with another half circle at the bottom. To take the outer shell off, all you have to do is turn it so that it lines up with the dot, and then you can lift it off. I already have it plugged into ethernet and power, and you can see at the top, there's a blue ring. There's a piece of paper somewhere that I don't remember where it is right now, but it basically says a solid blue ring means that you're good to go. A teal ring means that it's ready to be set up, and an amber ring means that there's a problem, and no light means, well, it's not receiving power, which is fairly self-explanatory. I've already downloaded the app, so let's get going. So in the app now, it is actually very simple, but there's a few cool things. This is how it uses the three watt speaker. First off, it finds the On hub, but then it communicates a secret code through audio? It's kind of interesting. You'll see in a sec. All right, so now we got the code. It's going to connect to the On hub. Just setting up the wireless name. Please don't use a password that bad for anything ever. And that's it. Now we're in the app. It's pretty straightforward. In Wi-Fi access, you can reveal your password and even actually share your password using this button through social media or email or whatever. I don't really recommend using this password, and I don't really recommend using that, because having a full copy of your password on the cloud somewhere is probably not the most secure way to do things. Now I am going to have to change this a little bit, because as it is complaining, I have another router on this network, and I'm not bringing that one down. So I'm going to turn this into bridge mode, and then we're going to test it against the Ruckus R710. This is not going to be a very fair test. This router is like over $1,200, and this one is $200, but we can see kind of how good it is in general and have a kind of best possible scenario comparison against it. Okay, so now we're actually testing the Ruckus and the On hub. What I'm going to use for testing them is the Wi-Fi adapter that runs off of the X99 Deluxe board that we have. The reason for that is this is actually the only thing that can receive 3x3 MIMO Wi-Fi connections that we have, so I have to haul this thing around. It's going to be super annoying. Don't worry about it. I've already tested the On hub, and the On hub is currently unplugged. We're going to be testing in a whole bunch of different scenarios. We're going to be testing in here, just kind of across the table. We're testing through the wall in the benchmarking room, through the wall and a bunch of random metal stuff and a few other things in the library, and then also upstairs in Linus's office. Then I'm going to do a range test while just watching a Twitch stream and walking and waiting until it disconnects. So this is the first test. Like I said, I already have the On hub numbers, and we're going to do a file transfer test, not a speedtest.net because it's more representative. We have an SSD array server, so file transfer speeds should be fine. So first thing I'm going to do is going to try transferring the test file from the server to our computer. Just pass one minute and 20 seconds, almost done. Done. One minute, 24 seconds. Now I'm going to upload from the computer to the server. One minute, 51 seconds. One minute, 28 seconds, 0.1. 122.4. Two minutes and seven seconds, 0.8. So we're connected to turnip Wi-Fi. As you can see, turnip Wi-Fi is our On hub router. Now I'm just going to jump over here. We are watching a Twitch TV show. This is FaceIt TV, and we're just going to kind of walk out of the office and see how far we can go until it disconnects. It's still totally working. I'm going to go towards this construction site. Oh, it's buffering, but I'm not entirely sure if that's the router's problem. Yes, I have lost my router signal. It's got some pretty hardcore stuff to contend with, but I'm wondering if the Ruckus might win this one. All right, so now we're going to do the range walking test just like we did with the On hub, but with the Ruckus R710. Going out the door. Still working. Still connected to Wi-Fi. Oh, nope, I'm off Wi-Fi now, so I've lost Wi-Fi. So our very unscientific range test has shown that the Ruckus R710 made it to here, and the On hub made it three, four, five, six, seven random Luke side steps further, whatever that means. And we're back, and that was not expected. I went pitching a $200 router against a $1,200 AP in an AP style test. You'd expect the $1,200 AP to just completely run away with everything, and that's not actually what happened. The On hub won in most scenarios, granted, not by a lot, but it did, and in some scenarios it was a fairly good result. That being said, there was the one random test in the editing den where the Ruckus just totally ran away with it the one time, but that's not that significant in the grand scheme of things. It didn't represent all the other tests that we ran, and then even when we did the walking test outside, it still lost, and by a pretty significant amount. That being said, it was still running quite fast, and Ruckus's strength is focused around a massive amount of users, which I can't really represent here all that well. I'm not a school. I can't have like 30 different students with phones and laptops all running at the same time. I actually don't have enough devices for that. That being said, I could get a pretty heavy load, but the On hub has a really strong CPU for a router in it, for like a random $200 router, so it might be able to kind of keep up with that as well. It was interesting. I'm very impressed with the On hub, but it comes down to a few different things. You lose a lot of your customizability. You can't change a huge amount of options on the On hub. You can almost change nothing. You can set into bridge mode. You can change your password. There's not much more than that, to be completely honest. It's a pretty good router. There's not much more than that, to be completely honest, whereas the Ruckus, you have total control over a huge amount of stuff, especially if you get the control hub thing. There's always the kind of freaky part about what data exactly is Google taking off of this. There's what they tell us they're taking off of it, but tinfoil hat on, they could definitely be taking more. Anyways, for the value, it actually seems really strong. It's an extremely, extremely competent router for $200 with mystery features coming in the future. Do you guys think it's worth it? Let me know in the comments down below. Squarespace is simple, powerful, and beautiful, and only $8 a month, but if you sign up for a year at a time, you get a free domain for that year. Pretty awesome. 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