Of all the routers that Movistar customers currently have, the most widespread is the HGU model with WiFi 5, but the most advanced is the xHGU with Wi-Fi 6. The latter, which the operator launched commercially a few months ago under the trade name of Smart WiFi 6, will soon coexist with a new variant.
According to Banda Ancha, Movistar has introduced some modifications to the equipment’s hardware and has renamed it Smart Wi-Fi 6 Go. Next, we will tell you everything we know about this renewed router and its future arrival on the market.
Same on the outside, slightly different on the inside
Movistar’s new Smart WiFi 6 Go router received certification last May and has already begun to be distributedin Spain. From Telefónica, they assure that they are deploying several thousand teams to do network stability tests.
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It is, yes, a controlled deployment for clients who they still have an old ONT and routerSo the operator is taking advantage of this testing phase to update the old equipment that is still present in many homes.
The date of mass commercialization is not yet known, but they anticipate that will be available “in the coming months”. It is very likely that it will also end up reaching O2 customers, as has happened with other teams, but it will go on sale first with Movistar.
The price is not confirmed either, but we can get an idea by seeing how much does the Smart Wifi 6 model cost current: 50 euros if you install it yourself or 100 euros if you want a technician to come to your house to configure it and start it up.
And how is the new Smart WiFi 6 Go different from that current model? Its design is exactly the same, the only thing that changes is the WiFi. Instead of the Onsemi chips that the first generation mounts, the new variant (MitraStar GPT-2742GX4X5 v6) opts for those of the Airoha brand (owned by MediaTek).
With that, lose an antenna in the 5 GHz bandSo the new router includes four antennas in the 2.4 GHz band and another four in the 5 GHz band. The rest of the features are exactly the same.
