"Google Nest WiFi" is a home Wi-Fi router that has a high design, easy setting and easy to use: product review

Most routers are big and clunky.If you look at a black plastic housing with a cheaper, a creepy antenna like a spider foot, anyone will want to hide it in the closet.

However, in the first place, a router is a device to spread the Wi-Fi signal throughout the house.Even if it looks bad, it is necessary to install it in an open space instead of a hidden place so that the signal reaches far away.

It is thanks to this dilemma that routers with excellent design have appeared.Moreover, smart design routers not only provide powerful Wi-Fi functions in smart interior houses, but also have functions such as music playback and clock display.

Google's "NEST WiFi" is a successor to the company's home router, and its product name has been changed from "Google Wifi".The design has changed, and it is not a noticeable place, but it can be placed on bookshelves and counter.

Also, as if to match the current trend, the "Google Assistant" is incorporated into the expansion unit.This unit is called the "Nest WiFi extension point" (18,150 yen in Japan), not only delivering the Wi-Fi radio waves to the house, but also the built-in voice assistant compatible speaker "Google Nest Mini"Can be used like.

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Supports 200 or more connections

This time, two packs (31,900 yen in Japan in Japan) with NEST WiFi routers and expansion points instead of the master unit.According to Google, these two combinations can cover up to about 210 square meters and connect up to 200 devices.

When I used it at home with a size of about 110 square meters, there was no connection trouble.If you add another expansion point, the cover range will be up to about 300 square meters, and you will be able to connect up to 300 devices.

If you don't need an extension point for Google Assistant, or if you like Alexa, you can choose only a router.There are also two routers ($ 299 in the United States, not released in Japan).

Since the NEST WiFi system does not have a modem function, a broadband modem provided by the Internet Servedrovider (ISP) is required as before (Most Gigabit Fiber connection, router using a regular network cable.Can be connected directly to).

Use two apps for settings

The first necessary work is to connect NEST to a broadband modem.Then download the "Google Home" app on your smartphone and link nest to all the necessary settings.This time, I tested two modems, but there was no problem with the settings.