More Ways to Wi-Fi with the New ASUS OnHub

&quot;With the ASUS OnHub, we’re also introducing Wave Control, which lets you boost the Wi-Fi speed for a particular device by simply waving your hand over the top of the ASUS OnHub—great for busy houses.&quot;<p>This sounds like a horrible feature.<p>&quot;Honey, WiFis not working in the bathroom, could you wave over the router, that might fix something?&quot;

This is slightly confusing to me. Why did they release a TP-Link onhub and an asus onhub so close to each other ?<p>For those interested in the difference , but I wish they would actually provide hardware specs somewhere.<p>&gt;OnHub is available from both ASUS and TP-Link. Both are powerful AC1900 routers and work with the Google On companion app. But each has a different elegant exterior design, along with two key differences. OnHub from TP-Link features a front-facing antenna reflector that acts like a satellite dish enhancing Wi-Fi range in that direction. OnHub from ASUS lets you control your OnHub with a wave over the top. For example, wave to prioritize a device to ensure it has enough Wi-Fi bandwidth, like Chromecast while streaming a movie.

Does anybody have any thoughts on how the hand wave feature works? I&#x27;m interested in the OnHub as a Nest owner and potential future developer. I like the addition of Thread and Weave, and the other future-enabled sensors on this thing. Still, though, hard to justify the $220 price tag without knowing what its really intended for.

According to the site &#x27;Plus, it’s designed to last, even as the way we use Wi-Fi changes. It’s built to support a growing number of &quot;smart devices&quot; because it includes Bluetooth® Smart Ready, Weave, and Thread.&#x27;<p>It&#x27;s difficult to find more info on that as a developer. Can you guys help me out?

Is it just me who finds auto upgrade on a router very scary? I mean, I get it, ordinary ppl wouldn&#x27;t upgrade otherwise but still the security &#x2F; surveillance aspects are frightening.

I like the self-update and its simple operation. The hand-wave seems to be gimicky, but it looks quite useful.<p>As for the design, I think Apple&#x27;s Airport Extreme looks much nicer, and more importantly, the Asus onHub as glowing base. Anything that has LED or glowing lights will not pass my wife, especially if it is placed anywhere prominent in the living area.

The multiple antennas with a small computer was something only in really high end wifi access points. Having it in consumer equipment is really cool.

I hope the USB port actually does something on this model.

Just $219.99 for a data harvesting and privacy invading glorified cylindrical router marketed as home decoration, with an obnoxious ASUS logo on top.<p>To be honest, this could be a great prop for some sort of Hollywood thriller, in which the protagonist, a family man portrayed as computer illiterate, buys a new router for his family. At first it&#x27;s the best thing they ever purchased, but after the scene with the children going to bed and the OnHub™ emitting a strange fluorescing light, things seem to go awry for the family. His wife is getting really confronting targeted advertisements jeopardizing their relationship and his children end up really sick due to painful headaches which the doctor says only occur in nuclear zones of destruction due to intense radiation. Will he find out what&#x27;s causing all of this or is it already too late? Coming soon in a theater near you.