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Google Announces a Router: OnHub
An anonymous reader writes: Google has announced they're working with TP-LINK to build a new router they call OnHub. They say it's designed for the way we tend to use Wi-Fi in 2015, optimizing for streaming and sharing in a way that older routers don't. The router has a cylindrical design and comes with a simple, user-friendly mobile app. They say, "OnHub searches the airwaves and selects the best channel for the fastest connection. A unique antenna design and smart software keep working in the background, automatically adjusting OnHub to avoid interference and keep your network at peak performance. You can even prioritize a device, so that your most important activity — like streaming your favorite show — gets the fastest speed." The device will cost $200, it supports Bluetooth Smart Ready, Weave, and 802.15.4, and it will automatically apply firmware updates.
How fucking bold of them. NSA in the browser, NSA in their laptops and now NSA in your router.
Fuck off Google.
Probably not considering they do it already with phones, nexus players, chomecasts, etc.. Though I do hope they have a fallback partition / auto-recovery in the case of things going south. I probably won't be buying one as I have a good setup already, but depending on how its implemented, I could see recommending this to the aunt betsy's of the world.
Bye!
It's an interesting concept, but I don't think I want to turn my router over to a company like Google or Facebook that makes their money Hoovering up every last bit of data they can get about me.
From https://support.google.com/onh...: "the Google On app and your OnHub do not track the websites you visit or collect the content of any traffic on your network".
As an aside, I suspect this sort of issue is part of the reason for the Alphabet reorganization. Too often, assumptions that Google's only business model is driven by data collection interfere with the launch of products which do not do any data collection. Alphabet may provide more flexibility to move those products out of Google, Inc. when it's helpful.
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Right, because they've never bricked any of those devices with an automatic update before ... Right?
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