<story><title>Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system</title><url>https://blog.google/products/google-wifi/introducing-new-kind-wi-fi-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Serious question: whose WiFi is not working, to the degree that they think, &amp;quot;I really need to get a modern router to make this Internet thing actually work.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m seeing about a dozen fancy modern wifi routers all trying to solve a problem I&amp;#x27;m not sure exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xahrepap</author><text>I had nothing but problems with typical consumer hardware. Having to restart routers all the time. Dead spots. When family would visit (both my wife and I have large families) they would connect at least 2 devices each to my wifi (tablet, phone, laptop, etc). My wireless would just tank. They would always ask me why my internet was so terrible.&lt;p&gt;Last year I bought an Edge router and a higher end Netgear hotspot. Works wonders separating things out and letting me easily add separate &amp;quot;Guest&amp;quot; wireless networks on different channels or whatever using my older devices.&lt;p&gt;If I were to have done that change now I would&amp;#x27;ve definitely used a device like Google&amp;#x27;s. But to do something like that would&amp;#x27;ve been outside my budget. I wish I could easily add new hotspots that just seamlessly worked so that I could eliminate the dead spots on the edges of my house and in my yard over time.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there&amp;#x27;s something I don&amp;#x27;t know already and I don&amp;#x27;t need Google&amp;#x27;s new Wifi System. But it definitely seems to fix my usecase.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system</title><url>https://blog.google/products/google-wifi/introducing-new-kind-wi-fi-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Serious question: whose WiFi is not working, to the degree that they think, &amp;quot;I really need to get a modern router to make this Internet thing actually work.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m seeing about a dozen fancy modern wifi routers all trying to solve a problem I&amp;#x27;m not sure exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Morgawr</author><text>Disclaimer: I am employed by Google but I do not work nor have any affiliation with this product, this is just my opinion and not that of my employer.&lt;p&gt;All the experience I&amp;#x27;ve always had with wifi in the last ~10 years has been abysmal. I play games and make a lot of use of internet (downloading, working through ssh sessions, etc) and the slight hiccup and packet loss is very evident in my system and frustrates me a lot. When I am playing games and there&amp;#x27;s a slight interference, I notice immediately. When I am chatting on irc through ssh and my keystrokes don&amp;#x27;t go through due to spotty wifi, I notice immediately. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s unbearable. I think this idea is really great. I had to finetune my wifi so many times in all the apartments I&amp;#x27;ve lived at. Using channel analysers to pick the correct one every once in a while (due to recurring congestion&amp;#x2F;interferences), living in a very crowded area I often have ~30 access points broadcasting and cluttering and it&amp;#x27;s really obvious in the performance of my network.&lt;p&gt;In the last apartment I was staying at (moved out a few days ago), every time my flatmate at the opposite side of the house would open the living room door to walk to the bathroom, my signal would experience a latency spike of 100-200ms (average would be 10-20). We had a pretty poor router, to be honest, and I was at the other side of the apartment, but it was simply ridiculous. At times it would just refuse to work and I couldn&amp;#x27;t browse the internet for a few minutes simply because of too much congestion.&lt;p&gt;I think this idea with multiple smart access points is simply genius and while I plan to use wired connection for my next apartment, I&amp;#x27;m definitely looking forward to a better implementation of the currently abysmal wifi that we have in general.</text></comment>