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  • There are 12 cables across the top of the device (six 2.4GHz antennas and six 5GHz), plus the congestion antenna along the side, and a final coax cable along the other side.

  • Google seems to have some kind of color coding system, which might help for repair, but the board markings don't give us any hints just yet.

  • Peeling off the second half of the outer shell, we find an interesting antenna arrayed in a double diamond. More on this guy later.

  • The OnHub's antenna array is revealed in all its Lovecraftian glory, the antenna leads looking spookily like tentacles.

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