AC1200

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.

I have a Gen1 Google Wifi. Never had problems, but recently something SUPER weird happened. It lost all connections to internet... except the ONE device that was streaming, that one kept working as if nothing happened. I had to factory reset all mesh devices to make it work again.

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.

This. I went with Deco WiFi 7 routers and no issues. The nest Pro routers were garbage. My old pucks were more stable.

I see, I have the original Google Wi-Fi and they don't support Mesh when wired to the gateway.

It's in double NAT because the original Google Wi-Fi don't support VLAN, I don't have that option in the Google home app. You've got it because you have the PRO version. It's not a problem and actually solves one problem I was having with Pi-Hole. With Pi-Hole in the Google network all the DNS requests came from the Google router, even when Google DHCP was configured to provide the pi-hole address. Now, with the pi in the other network it works as expected, router does DHCP and gives clients the pi address as DNS and they use it. It allows me to tell the family that if they want ads they can use one network and if they don't, use the other.