While both the Nest Wifi and Google Wifi are ancient in router terms - and use the older Wi-Fi 5 standard - they still perform well for the price. Rather than calling it the Google Wifi 2, Google called the system the Nest Wifi, which matched the company's efforts to rebrand the Google Home Mini smart speaker and Google Home Hub smart display as the Nest Mini and Nest Hub. Then, at the end of 2019, Google unveiled a follow-up. The system tested well and quickly earned a spot as one of CNET's top recommended routers.
Like other mesh routers, you connect one Google Wifi device to your modem and then scatter the others throughout your home to spread a speedy Wi-Fi signal from room to room. Back in 2016, Google made its first foray into mesh networking with the Google Wifi, a pucklike, three-piece mesh router system.
