Google 'Nest Wifi' can bring tags that will serve as speakers on October 15.

Google's Wi-Fi mesh router – Google Wifi – is almost three years old, but its design may be radically different next month. 9to5Google reports that the company is preparing a new "Nest Wifi" combining a new hub router with two new "tags" that will act as Google Assistant's smart speakers, giving you the equivalent of two additional Google Home speakers. Mini to cover extra rooms in your house with Wi-Fi and sound.

You may notice that Google will effectively copy Amazon's second-generation Eero router by using a pair of tags to extend Wi-Fi coverage of your home, which could have both advantages and disadvantages. In our study, we found that the second-generation Eero was just as good as the first-generation model, but it does not necessarily provide as much bandwidth as Eero's full-size routers.

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But Amazon still does not have smart speakers built into its routers because it did not acquire Eero until the beginning of the year. So this is an opportunity that Google could benefit first. It would not be the first time that Google doubled its offer for smart home devices: the company had launched a review in February for sending a secret microphone in the Nest Secure alarm it had activated for Google Assistant .

9to5Google Google plans to introduce the Wi-Fi Nest in three different colors at the same event on October 15, when it will launch its Pixel 4 smartphones. They will apparently be backwards compatible with the original Google Wifi routers and will start with new orders from the Google Assistant to allow you to pause the Internet on some devices or parts. (This could be convenient for parents.)

That's all we know about 9to5Google 's sources, but we may have already heard more: there were well-informed assumptions in early spring on a Google code name "Mistral" that could include not only Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi mesh router capabilities. Smart speakers, but also support for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, as well as smart home appliances based on ZigBee.

L & # 39; information said Google was working on a combined solution for Google Home and Google Wifi products in April 2017.