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Google OnHub is a residential wireless router product from Google, Inc. The two variants are manufactured by TP-Link and ASUS. Google's official tagline for the product is, "We’re streaming and sharing in new ways our old routers were never built to handle. Meet OnHub, a router from Google that is built for all the ways you use Wi-Fi."
The router has interchangeable shells to fit various room environments.
Google claims that this router is superior because of its intuitive interface, automatic updates without service outages and additional features, such as IEEE 802.15.4 (Personal Area Network), Bluetooth 4.0, Weave (network protocol), and continuous channel optimization. However, most of the features are not yet functional due to device compatibility or design flaws.
OnHub supplies a single SSID for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. The intent of this set up is that personal devices connected to OnHub router switch automatically when in range. This fails when devices connected to 2.4 GHz band come within range of the 5 GHz band and do not switch because the IEEE 802.11 protocol on most devices was designed to remain connected unless signal disappears.