WiFi Assitant has nothing to do with the automatic switching of calls from cell/voice to wifi/voip. That is still a Project Fi only feature.

Your smart phone most likely does not automatically establish a secure VPN connection for you; that’s the main feature here. So if you are automatically hopping on open wifi hotspots, all your browsing, texts, calls, emails, snapchats, etc. are completely insecure and you may as well be verbally announcing to…

I have a spot I use a lot - at my local gym. Some days wifi ass’t kicks in, some days it doesn’t. I think it depends on the network traffic that day. If there isn’t much traffic, the ping test result is good and wifi ass’t kicks in. If the network is busy, it won’t connect. The lame part is that then I want to…

The whole point is that it creates its OWN vpn tunnel, so you may securely use (otherwise unsafe) open wifi hotspots.

Does RW establish a VPN? That’s the main feature here, not just automatically connecting to open wifi.

No it does not give you access to closed/secure networks. The main feature is that it sets up a VPN tunnel for your connection on an open hotspot, so you may use that open wifi (more or less) safely.

Eric Ravenscraft - your article, like the marketing info from Google, is incredibly misleading about how this feature works and does not work.