Google brings Wi-Fi 6E to its routers with the Nest Wifi Pro
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Google says that color was an important consideration when designing the Nest Wifi Pro." | Image: Google Google's beefing up its mesh networking offerings. On Tuesday, it announced the Nest Wifi Pro, a router that supports tri-band Wi-Fi 6E for faster potential speeds and that can connect 100 devices per router for a maximum of 300 devices. In terms of speed, it's a big upgrade compared to the regular Google Nest Wifi, which was released in 2019 and is equipped with dual-band 802.11ac capabilities (nowadays known as Wi-Fi 5).
If you do have one of those previous systems, though, you should know that you won't just be able to add a Wifi Pro node or two to it. In a briefing, Google Nest solutions lead Ben Brown called the new devices a self-contained system" that doesn't have that hybrid backwards compatibility with Nest Wifi, and Google...