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Comcast is announcing a new version of its hexagon-shaped xFi Pods, the meshwork Wi-Fi extender pods it sells to proffer Wi-Fi networks often your house, with increasingly Wi-Fi bandwidth (up to 500Mbps, which it says is twice as fast) as well as a spare wired Ethernet quay on each pod as well. (Disclosure: Comcast is an money-lender in Vox Media, The Verge's parent company.) The company originally began selling its Wi-Fi extender pods to consumers in 2018 in packs of three or six plugs, however the new ones sally in packs of one or two.

Comcast is recommending one pod for a 3-4 bedroom house, as well as two for 5+ bedrooms or houses with thick walls -- which were its same recommendations for its 3-pack as well as 6-packs respectively, before.

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Similar to its predecessor, the xFi Pods maintain a six-sided polygonal erecting that plugs into an outlet, as well as you peristyle them with an xFi Wireless Gateway or xFi Far-out Gateway. The new xFi pods are tri-band Wi-Fi devices, which should relent the template to maintain higher speeds when increasingly fixtures are continuous to your router, as well as that might be an advantageousness over some cheaper meshwork routers that don't hypothesize a third Wi-Fi concomitance for backhaul. However clashing fixtures like Google's Nest Wifi as well as Point doorpost or Amazon's Eero meshwork Wi-Fi systems, these fixtures can't replace your primary Wi-Fi router as well. They're examined for Comcast's device.

The xFi Pods are husbandless now, priced at $119 for one pod or $199 for a relocate of two.