Google Wifi - AC1200

4 Google wifi pods for a 1800sq ft house. Awesome

I had a single original Google WiFi puck in a 2 bedroom apartment and loved it. When I bought a house in 2020 i upgraded to the Nest WiFi, basically what you have in the screenshot there. I was able to use my Google WiFi puck as a mesh AP and I had 3 pucks in the whole house. I did NOT use wired backhaul setup as it was not feasible and the throughput was absolutely awful. For context, I have gigabit from my ISP. With Nest WiFi I’d hardly ever get more than 100mbps on a single device regardless of how close I was to the puck. I replaced the whole system with a single Eero 6E and made no changes to my ISP/modem etc and now get 800mbps downloads on a 5ghz or 6ghz device with no loss of coverage in my home. In conclusion, switch to Eero or anything but Google. Google gave up on this product.

Agreed. I've just given it up and use only the single router. The mesh/edge points are just too unreliable and it's not worth the hassle every time the family has a problem. It's just another lesson on Google's values. A bit sad because I thought I was buying a system that would be maintained with great software updates.

I can second this, had the originals and they died pretty quick Now we have the newer versions for about maybe 2-3 years now and we are always dropping connection on them Route works fine but we have to reset the mesh constantly

That's weird. Mine have been really good up until recently. One of them is starting to have problems where it's dropping out and buffering traffic but the other two are fine. I do have wired backhaul to all of them. They're all at least 3 years old. I'm starting to think about some Ubiquiti gear though, just because the price of the new Google Nest stuff is pretty pricey for what you get.

The Ubiquiti stuff is really solid equipment, especially with the various Dream unit heading it up. Makes a very neat and easy to manage system. You do need some networking knowledge but all in all, it's pretty easy. Definitely falls into the set it up once category. In terms of ease of use and configuration, I've had great luck with my 1st Gen Google pucks. 3 of them cover my entire 2400sq-ft home using both wired and wireless backhaul. Plug it in, install the app on your phone, do the basic configuration and ignore it for years. Just works.

Turn off the wifi from the Cogeco modem if that's the model you have. I personally like the Google mesh wifi simply for ease of use. Setup is super easy and if you don't control anything or have to put restrictions on the network for children the easy of use is worth it. Just my 2 cents 3 pack on Amazon is currently 260 https://a.co/d/gl8D4aP

I still use the 1st gen Google Mesh Wifi and it works great. I'd like the newest 6e version for access to higher speed, but they still work great. If you are in fact using wifi 6, then you have the newest 3rd generation Nest Wifi Pro. It's not the one with the Google home speakers built in, right?

No issues. Frankly it's people not following directions or the app itself not completing certain functions. Others are just people not wiring correctly or being impatient during setup. Some of the stalling setup issues I have encountered and can be resolved by force quitting the app and crossing your fingers that you don't have to start all over. BTW, if you are technically inclined installing OpenWRT on your old Google WiFi pucks breathes alot of life into them. Setup is not easy, but it's very rewarding. In fact I recommend using one as an access point with a different WiFi name added to your MESH. Perhaps even one that is dedicated to IOT devices and guests.

If you mean the Google WiFi 1st gen white pucks, you are **long overdue** for security patches. Last firmware update was [3 years ago](https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/13800967?hl=en). If you are technically inclined you can install OpenWRT on it or at the bare minimum upgrade the primary Internet facing puck to 2nd gen (Nest WiFi 1st gen). However, thatis probably next to be 'forgotten'. If you can find it cheap, it'll be worth it.

I recommend a Google Wi-Fi router because you can add mesh points if you have problems with your coverage. I live in a three-bedroom apartment that was built in 1969 and because the walls were so thick, a single router will not cover everywhere. Once I picked up the Google Wi-Fi router and added a single mesh point, my signal issues were resolved.

Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don't.. I've set up large networks where there was no real planning and things were just placed where it was convenient. Sometimes it works flawlessly and you can roam the entire property without any hiccups or drops. Sometimes I have to go back and spend a ridiculous amount of time tweaking power levels (If it's a system you can do that with) or moving access points around in order to get it optimal. Sometimes that's not possible. Either due to construction materials or interference. Sometimes you can only get it as good as you can get it. In those cases the solution to the problem would be, a different location lol. A lot of times it depends on the device you're using while roaming and the brands of equipment you got for your network / Wi-Fi. Some networking equipment has built-in protocols to assist with handing off while roaming. Some have less and some have none. Then there's the device itself. IPhones tend to hang on to access points even after they basically lost the signal for a long time before switching over to a stronger signal. Not all Android phones are better. I've noticed a lot of the newer Android phones are starting to do the same thing. I think it's a bad hack to make the battery life last longer. I'd rather have a little less battery life and better Wi-Fi management but that's me. I'm sure the marketing departments for Apple, Google, Samsung, and so on would disagree with me lol. The best system weirdly enough, when it was working properly lol, for roaming around a property while doing a video call or even a voice call over Wi-Fi.. was the original Google Wi-Fi system. If laid out properly, and there wasn't some weird interference, and all the access points were wired, roaming was flawless. I say was, because they seem to have broken that a few firmware updates ago. There will be any more firmware updates for that system so now that it's broken, it'll stay that way. The next best brand of system I've personally tested when it comes to roaming and Wi-Fi is ubiquiti. I haven't tested everything they have but their higher end products seem to work great! Sometimes it takes tweaking a few settings and that can be a bit of a hurdle for the average person. However, I think it's worth it. I'd say about half the systems in the last 3 years I've been installed were ubiquiti and out of all of the systems I've installed, I've never really had any clients call about issues with their ubiquiti system. At most I'll occasionally get a call from a client that manages their own system and normally it's just a question regarding if they should do a software or firmware update. Not really a question about a problem. I have had a few people screw up their own system by messing with settings but that's normally pretty easy to fix, especially if they had giving me prior remote access. Plus I tend to make and keep backups of clients configurations. Good luck and for overall reliability, I would avoid systems sold in stores. That's not to say that the brands that are sold in stores are bad but it's actually very common for TP-Link and other companies to make a slightly different cheaper version of a model to ship to and sell in stores. This is normally to increase the profit of the store and without doing it the store typically would refuse to order and sell the product in the first place. Just spend the same money and either buy whatever it is on Amazon or directly from the manufacturer. Good luck! Once you get something that works you'll forget it's even there 😅👍