Google Wifi - Nest Wifi Pro

"Also better WiFi, generally improved version, **very expensive**, don't know too much about them." **$250** for **Three** New *Nest WiFi Pro* (6E) .

My honest review and issues of things that annoyed me after a few years: \- Had excellent coverage in a 2600 and 3200 sq ft home with 3 of these. 1000/40 WAN service. I purchased all 3 right when they were launched. \- Wireless mesh isn't bad, but wired backhaul is fantastic. I used MoCa 2.5 adapters to use existing coax. \- Their QoS isn't great, and you have little to no ability to control it. Bufferbloat is a real issue when you're saturating the full 1Gbps. Starts to kick on around 500Mbps, maybe 25ms... +300ms at full link saturation. This was caused by the router itself, nothing else. I even connected a PC directly to it with no other nodes setup...same issue. PC direct to the cable modem, and the issue disappeared. \- You can change the DNS, but it'll still hands out its own internal DNS (192.168.86.1 by default) to clients. So, if you're running adguard or pihole on a different system, all DNS requests will come from the router and not from individual clients. I absolutely hated this, but if you don't run your own DNS... this doesn't matter. I ended up giving mine to my mom when she upgraded to 150/20 service. She's never going to notice the bufferbloat, and couldn't give a darn about the DNS issue. Works perfectly for her. I liked them a lot, but wouldn't recommend them for someone that has above 500Mbps speeds and expects to keep low latency gaming.

Nest Pro WiFi is absolutely terrible. I fought with it for years handling a bunch of devices, matter products, etc. I gave up two months ago for Unify. Such a dramatic transformation after years of poor WiFi performance. There is no such thing as a “lemon” in this product category.

You should only get Nest Pro if you can hard wire the points into the network. I along with many others have had issues when using the points wirelessly. Hard wired the Nest Pro setup is great.

I dumped Google's Nest Pro for the TPlink BE95 and been great! Real wired backhaul, and wireless if you want. I think that you probably want a wired backend. Do you have coax cable in your home? You can link everything up with Docsis 2.5 GBps using those runs without having to run new wire. Alternately, you could look Ethernet over power. I think they have 2.5 Gbps for that too.

Idk but don’t get the nest WiFi pro. It drops out constantly and you can’t force 2.4ghz to setup smart home products. The WiFi provided by my isp router is more stable that the nest pro

How is the eero ecosystem, especially the app? I’ve been using the google WiFi pro and the app sucks. It’s so slow and unresponsive. I’m considering whether to sell it and get the eero WiFi 7 or 7 pro

I have a decently large (newly built home) and a big backyard with pool and structure and needed wifi for outdoor TVs, Sonos, etc. It took me no joke SEVEN of the Google WiFi pro’s ALL HARDLINED back to the networking room switch to get coverage on our property. That’s about how good they work. If you can do a wired backhaul or whatever it’s called , you can get pretty good performance. I was going to switch to the higher orbi’s or EERO max 7s, but with those I was going to need 4. It was going to be too expensive to switch because I already had so much Google stuff. Additionally Google WiFi mesh has been notoriously bad with Sonos. It’s finally starting to work better. We would have rooms just disappear from the system despite the Google home app showing them connected to the internet.

They're good when they work but for some reason they just stop working and you have to factory reset all the time. It's quite a regular event

Hmmm fair. My experience with Unifi has been good (other than initial speed issues with IoT). What ive noticed is the wifi broadcast is fairly powerful, definitely more so compared with Nest wifi pro. I was running 2 nest wifi pros either end of the house. Ground and first floor. Ive now placed one UDR7 fairly central in the house and I great speeds in all rooms. That being said, if you have 3 points you should really wire the points together. I had lots of speed and stability issues at my parents who have a fairly "long" 3 story house with lots of walls. Depends on placement too, the main point was furthest, then another point to the middle, and the last point at the other end of the house. Nest is supposed to mesh to any point, but for some reason mines kept looking for the main point. Wired them up (nest to unmanaged switch, ethernet to each point) and that solved speed and stability issues. Major benefit is it doesn't need to use wireless backhaul (which research at the time suggested takes up a significant enough portion of bandwidth and processing power). Honestly, rather than buy a different system, I would put some effort in and wire the points. Once done, it will definitely be faster but you've also opened yourself up to lots of options (not just unifi kit, but also opportunity to wire more devices as you can place switches at the end of each run).

Coming from a nest wifi pro, this I have a 3 mesh be25. So far, the range proves to be faster and wider. I'm still getting the rest of my iot devices up to see stability. The reason I was on nest wifi pro (gave up asus zenmax wifi) because the nest wifi is super stable with all my cast devices as I love having speakers everywhere, plus the lights stability. So far the be25 is holding up with the exception of some devices I need to wake up to register them on this new router. I have 2 wifi 7 clients, and placed them on MLO network. Pretty stable and fast going room by room. Maybe the only thing I'm missing from the nest wifi pro is how snappy all my devices are in Google Home, especially the nest doorbells and cameras. Overall, it's great. Again this is coming from a nest wifi pro which is also dual band but only 6e vs wifi7 on the be25.

Mine works great. Not a single issue

What is a good mesh network or device to use? I have the google nest pro 6e, and the main node only has one port for hard wire and i sent that to my computer. Is there better alternatives to get each node hardwired?

For years, I've been using Google Fiber 1 GB service with a Google Nest Router and several first-gen Google WiFi pucks. Performance has been solid, with \~45 wifi devices, until recent weeks. So, I reached out to customer support who offered and upgrade to the GFiber Wi-Fi 6E router and two extenders. The network is 100% wireless, with no wired backhaul. My speeds are much better, but coverage on one end of the second floor is much worse. I've experimented with extender placement, but suspect that a mesh solution would be better (although, the tech who installed the equipment thought it wouldn't be as good). I'm tempted to go back to my prior system but was curious about opinions.

Thanks. I have paired the 2nd extender with the router, and deployed it to the room where I had problems with the signal. My current configuration: \- Router on the 1st floor, center of house (total square feet is \~3800 over three floors). \- Extender 1 on the 2nd floor, in the home office, almost directly "above" the router. Mac connected to this via Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Current Speedtest result is 890 down, 759 up. \- Extender 2 on the 2nd floor, in the bonus room, roughly 30 feet from Extender 1. I seem to have a decent signal in that room using an old (6th gen) iPad: 503 down, 320 up. Unless Eero 6+ is going to do something wildly better for me, I'll keep it in the box.

I have a fairly immense smart-home setup with plenty of lights, outlets, and security cameras connected. I have had Google Nest Wifi (2 router, 2 points) for quite some time and generally liked it, other than the frequent glitches where one of the wifi "points" would stop working and take down anything attached to that point. I considered dropping $200-300 on the upgrade to a Google Wifi Pro mesh setup but kept seeing bad reviews on Reddit and other forums about it not being worth the upgrade, so I held off. Well, a neighbor gifted me a Google Wifi Pro system for free that they got through some offer with their ISP or security company. And I am so happy I didn't spend any money on this, because it's absolute garbage. Whereas I could regularly play online gaming on my PS5, stream movies, and videochat with work with no issue, I immediately noticed issues with this alleged "Pro" system. which by all specs should be faster and more reliable than the Nest Wifi. Videocalls, which were never choppy before, would cut out multiple times a day. I'd lose my internet connection, something that never happened with the older system, at least once per 30 minute Helldivers 2 game. It would drop me entirely from the game and force me to close the game and re-open it to be able to rejoin my friends' mission. Which, in the middle of a timed 30 minute mission is critical. I never had these issues with the old system but it was so far with the "Pro" that now after 3 weeks I am taking it out and replacing it with the old Nest Wifi system. This time I've upgraded to 3 routers to make the Nest Wifi mesh, which I read on here give better coverage and speeds due to having twice as many antennae inside. The impact was immediately noticeable. I jumped back onto Helldivers after swapping out the routers and didn't have a single other game drop for 2 hours. I'd like night any day, except one system is twice as old as the other. I'm just baffled how Google has put out such a terrible product, that they're charging a premium price for, and nobody has more publicly called them out for it in forums like CNET or other electronic reviews. This product is criminally bad.

Yeah people who keep saying I just got a lemon are driving me a bit nuts. If this many people are having issues it's not an isolated "lemon" it's a bad product build.

I have a fairly immense smart-home setup with plenty of lights, outlets, and security cameras connected. I have had Google Nest Wifi (2 router, 2 points) for quite some time and generally liked it, other than the frequent glitches where one of the wifi "points" would stop working and take down anything attached to that point. I considered dropping $200-300 on the upgrade to a Google Wifi Pro mesh setup but kept seeing bad reviews on Reddit and other forums about it not being worth the upgrade, so I held off. Well, a neighbor gifted me a Google Wifi Pro system for free that they got through some offer with their ISP or security company. And I am so happy I didn't spend any money on this, because it's absolute garbage. Whereas I could regularly play online gaming on my PS5, stream movies, and videochat with work with no issue, I immediately noticed issues with this alleged "Pro" system. which by all specs should be faster and more reliable than the Nest Wifi. Videocalls, which were never choppy before, would cut out multiple times a day. I'd lose my internet connection, something that never happened with the older system, at least once per 30 minute Helldivers 2 game. It would drop me entirely from the game and force me to close the game and re-open it to be able to rejoin my friends' mission. Which, in the middle of a timed 30 minute mission is critical. I never had these issues with the old system but it was so far with the "Pro" that now after 3 weeks I am taking it out and replacing it with the old Nest Wifi system. This time I've upgraded to 3 routers to make the Nest Wifi mesh, which I read on here give better coverage and speeds due to having twice as many antennae inside. The impact was immediately noticeable. I jumped back onto Helldivers after swapping out the routers and didn't have a single other game drop for 2 hours. I'd like night any day, except one system is twice as old as the other. I'm just baffled how Google has put out such a terrible product, that they're charging a premium price for, and nobody has more publicly called them out for it in forums like CNET or other electronic reviews. This product is criminally bad.

I switched from Eero to Google Nest Wifi 6E and I've been loving it!

I have a lot of devices in my home and used the Wifi pro since release. While I never have issues, I do believe there are better systems out there for cheaper.

Those first gen google mesh’s are still solid af just replaced mine with Nest pro 6e’s

Same, i had 4 google 6e mesh and was a nightmare. Half the time it didnt work or the coverage was horrible throughout the house. Just got the Deco BE63 and setup was simple and speeds are great

Honestly having so many problems, I wanted something easy to set up and look after and having an android phone, Google nest WiFi pro made sense. I recently upgraded to FTTP and the provided router and extenders were the bottleneck so I pulled the trigger and bought this, Holy fuck was I in for a shit show, I connected one directly into my ONT and set it all up and I was just shocked by the speeds only getting 200 to the main node and the other nodes where the devices were connected to were maxing out at 60 or even sometimes 14 down, I tried everything directly connected to the ONT to my MacBook, tested it 1.3gb down wtf is going on, currently talking to a senior WiFi team person but I'm genuinely not sure how much longer I can handle these speeds, I know first world problems, but I paid 380 for the mesh system and I'm paying for my FTTP, so I want the speeds I pay for

Pretty much every company that makes a router offers them. I personally use the google nest pro wifi6e ones myself, I have 3 of them

Jeg investerte for noen år siden i Google WiFi og var strålende fornøyd. Når jeg flyttet ville jeg oppgradere og tenkte Google WiFi Pro ville gjøre susen. Dessverre så funker det ikke bra her hjemme, da jeg har skjønt den bruker 6GHz båndet for trådløs kobling (backhaul) mellom nodene. Så hvorfor bruker jeg trådløst mesh når alle anbefalinger sier man bør koble dem sammen med kablet nett? Jo, fordi jeg klarte den generaltabben å ikke planlegge for nettverkspunkter i en totalrenovering av en bolig. Så nå er jeg stuck med å bruke kun trådløse mesh noder. Planløsningen her er også utfordrende da det er fire halvplan, varmefolie i alle gulv og betongvegg mellom et tilbygg og hoveddelen av boligen. Å plassere noder med fri sikt til hverandre er så og si umulig. Jeg har testet powerline-adaptere, men det gir ikke så god hastighet som jeg skulle ønske (50 Mbit). Jeg har fiber med 1 GBit opp/ned. Derfor er jeg nå laaaangt nede i kaninhullet om å finne et nytt trådløst mesh system. Og det er vanskelig. Kravene mine er (1) dønn stabilt trådløst nett og (2) så høy hastighet som mulig. Jeg har landet på Asus eller Netgear, men jeg ser de tilbyr nettverk i mildt sagt forskjellige prisklasser. F.eks nyeste og noe av det beste Asus Zenwifi BQ16 til 12.000 kr/paret. Mot f.eks. elder modeller som Asus Zenwifi XT8 til 5.000 kr/paret. Jeg trenger nok minst 4 noder.. så hva bør man velge? Det er ganske stor prisforskjell? Er det noen som har noen erfaringer å dele? Har dere noen anbefalinger? EDIT: kan legge til at jeg har en teknisk IT-utdanning og har jobbet som utvikler i mange år, så er ikke redd for å få møkk på fingrene gjennom config eller lignende.

I’d stay away from the nest pros. I “upgraded” from these and have Ethernet backhaul and was having issues all the time with drops and lagging. Since I got them from Costco was able to return them (after over a year) and switched to the deco system. With the way these systems are setup now it seems you need points in every room because signal can drop so much with the environment. Example- my kid had a Stanley water battle near the point on their desk and the cut down the signal strength by half while only standing 2 feet away.

Was happy I remembered I bought my set from Costco and returned them after about 15 months for a refund. Had the same issue and ran through so many hoops trying to get them to work properly even on wired backhul. Switched to decos and seem to be working well but may need to add a few more WiFi points.

Was running in to the same issue. Google walked me through optimizing the settings and was still having issues. Any video conferencing was a disaster after 15 minutes or sooner. Months dealing with my isp, checking every Ethernet jack and line in the house and decided to take the pros back (God bless Costcos return policy)after about 15 months with them.

Hello u/q547! I recently purchased and returned Google Nest WiFi Pro. Not pleased at all with the substandard performance. I'm curious what Unifi setup you decided to go with. Thanks in advance!

I went from a Nest 2gen to the Nest 6e and both points backhauled. My router always got 800 up and down but couldn't get over 100 on any wifi device no matter where I was in the house. I'm getting 600-800 on my Pixel Fold and the same on my MacBook. The wife's iPhone 16 gets over 500. So far I'm pretty happy.

I have the Google wifi pro 6e, one connected to my Comcast router, one remote. Seems like it's wifi is a bit on the weak side.

They are about 15 feet apart, through one wall. Being very near the unit results in less than full Wi-Fi strength. It's very weird. Hmm... I just restarted the remote unit and now it's full strength.

Yes, it definitely preforms better. We have the router and 2 extenders in a 3000 sq/ft home with wired backhaul. We have 1g and did the upgrade thru Google as our Nests were lackluster (to say the least). Still extremely limited with administrative tools/adjustments, and the main router is quite large... but performance wise, I regularly get > 1g up/down within 30 ft of the nodes via wifi on my iPhone 16. Wired is just as good. Obviously YMMV, and I will likely upgrade in the future to something with more customization when I have the budget, but unquestionably a step above the Nest,

Pro 6E. We started with Nest but they offered the 6E upgrade with 1g when the Nests became problematic.

Yes, it definitely preforms better. We have the router and 2 extenders in a 3000 sq/ft home with wired backhaul. We have 1g and did the upgrade thru Google as our Nests were lackluster (to say the least). Still extremely limited with administrative tools/adjustments, and the main router is quite large... but performance wise, I regularly get > 1g up/down within 30 ft of the nodes via wifi on my iPhone 16. Wired is just as good. Obviously YMMV, and I will likely upgrade in the future to something with more customization when I have the budget, but unquestionably a step above the Nest,

I also live in Brant Hills. I thought Cogeco was crap. Pissed off with poor internet in house. Well it wasn’t Cogeco, we had a shitty router. Got the Google Nest 3 Point Wifi Pro and it’s amazing. I even pick up great wifi out in my yard. Look into a better router.

I installed a Google Nest Pro system in a large house with all block walls a few weeks ago, for a customer. If I am honest I thought it wouldn't make the grade, but it is what the wanted and they had already bought the kit. I was super impressed with just how well it worked. The only cable involved was some Cat5E between the master TV box and it's closest node and the client TV box and it's closest node via a cheap Gigabit switch, which also connected a networked laser printer. It dishes out the maximum the ISP gives in every room in the house.

Maybe you got a lemon? I've had mine for years and I've maybe restarted it twice. Multiple 4k streams at once, plus video games, smart home stuff, etc. I forget it's even there because i never have to think about it.

Just get the Google wifi to make it easy. Enable ipv6 with superloop and in the Google home app. You're probably be fine with the original model for those speeds but I suggest getting new ones. Bunnings have been clearing out the nest pro wifi sets for down to $150/pack of 3 if you're lucky.

I'll just note that even with my reply to another comment, I actually do recommend ethernet runs, but only if you find a 3-pack of mesh points to be unreliable. The nest pro points can do wired backhaul if needed. Some houses will have weird insulation and other things causing interference and poor signal, but for your use-case, not worth investing in ethernet immediately. Also make sure you remove your existing router, don't go through it. You'll double-NAT yourself. FTTP is ethernet from the NTD, no modem needed.

I upgraded from an XR500 to the Nest Pro WiFi. It's worked fine for me, but I also use a Cisco C920-4P router which handles the DHCP server, port forwarding, etc, and a local DNS server which handles the DNS traffic. Also I recommend anyone use an ethernet backbone isntead of using the wireless mesh.

I read many poor things about Google Wi-Fi routers and I took the plunge anyways to see it for myself how bad they potentially are. For me it’s fine I’m a heavy gamer and big smart home user. It’s honestly been a better WiFi mesh router then others I bought and returned such as eero, and TP-Link. I have no issues, my only complaint is I wish it was a little more involved with settings but it’s simple interface is very unique compared to anyone else on the market and uses the Google smart home app. My speeds are flying, I personally got it because all the crap going on with TP-Link. I wanted to like eero but they are no good tbh. I don’t regret my decision with the google mesh router, I got the 6E version. Also I like the perk that I can block my kids devices with schedules and security policies for free while the other companies you would need to pay for that feature.

Errors are not that good and I have tried them all and returned the devices. Google mesh router 6E is surprisingly fairly decent in my book plus it has family security features included for free while eero you would need to pay for.

Seconding this. I have a 2500 sqft house, I have one Google Nest Pro WiFi and it covers it all by itself completely.

I tried connecting one of the points by wire and it was really unreliable. The other point kept going onto the blinking orange dot. I could only resolve it by going back to wireless only. I agree with OP that the reliability of these seems to have taken a turn lately. I'm using the Nest Wifi Pro 3 pack.

If you don't mind, I'd recommend to you.  4 google wifi pro 6e ($500).  Four of them.   And like the guy said  first,  hoodwink a way to physically wire them.   With ethernet wires.  A 6e ethernet wire that is flat is like 12 dollars for 50ft.  You try to hoodwink it get it wired physically okay.   You can then put one in your house nest the back door (indoors).   Another you can plug outside without a wire.  The other two, plug in with a ethernet wire around the house.    And buy tp link 8 port switch (around $22), to plug into the Google wifi pro 6e with ethernet, to then plug into your laptop or computer, both, tv, iptv, into your wifi surround sound systems around the house , into the 3rd floor of your house where wifi is weaker.   If your backyard wifi isn't good still.   How handy are you?   You thinking of ideas?  Try this first

I have 4 of them and noticed that anytime I have more than 2 nest pro in the mesh, it causes problems. Ended up with one main floor and one upper floor with some coverage gaps.

I've had this system for a year. It improved my wifi coverage in the downstairs of my two story house (router is upstairs), but that's about all that it does well. The settings options are very minimal and quite difficult to find/navigate to. Which isn't a problem if you are hoping for "set it and forget it," but unfortunately this hardware doesn't seem good enough for that. It will mysteriously and frequently throttle my download speed, a problem that I have only been able to "solve" temporarily by restarting the network. Not too big of a deal, but every time I try to download a large bit of software on the xBox, I notice the speed has been throttled. Usually a restart will get it fast enough to finish the download, but often it will throttle again before it even finishes. It seems to throttle to a max of 96mbps, which is fast enough to not notice most of the time, but I do pay for gigabit... Now it has stopped playing nicely with an unmanaged switch. I have three devices plugged into a wired switch in the room with the router. This worked fine for months, but now it drops internet for anything wired. The only solution I have been able to find is to unplug everything, restart, and plug wired devices back in one at a time. This will work for two devices before it drops everything again when a third is plugged in. Very frustrating.

I have a router and two points. They are wireless. I've gathered it would be better if I had things wired, but that's more trouble than it's worth for me with two stories. Overall, it just isn't bad enough to justify spending a few hundred dollars to replace, but if I had it to do over again, I'd definitely use a different solution.

I'm in the same boat...have Google nest pro and the constant dropouts are aggregating. Tp link seems to consistently rise to the top for mesh but I'm worried about the chYna implications and if they'll get shut down at some point. Or do I just go ubiquiti....anyone have a preference? Tp link is obviously a cheaper solution but I'm looking for stability and some of the ubiquiti chains also complain about random dropout's.

Yes it’s tri-band as the Nest Pros are only dual band.

I also switched back to the Nest Wi-Fi Pro. For months since having the Decos, I had issues with certain apps/websites not loading or loading very slowly. Everything else that worked was blazing fast. I didn't attribute it to the Decos until I tried Paramount Plus and it would give an error code that said I was using an ad blocker. I wasn't at all. I tried on different devices and got the same error code. I reverted to my Nest Wi-Fi Pros and after a firmware update it has been VERY stable the last few days. I also noticed that all of the quirks I had were because of the Decos, including: Proofreading in Google keyboard (typing this post reminded me), Garage door app, Chevy app, Google Play Store on one particular device, Amazon app when viewing video reviews, Xbox app, Xbox Family Settings app, etc. Switching back to the Nest Wi-Fi Pros just worked. No tinkering at all. I originally switched away from the Nest Wi-Fi Pros because they were unstable but so far it seems the latest firmware has addressed the stability issues at least for me.

https://preview.redd.it/g39fu386oi2e1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea956fc15eaa27b4c23dd4cc459838d839c2113f I went with the google nest and i for the price I’m more than happy tbh. PlayStation portal finally works perfectly :)

Yeah I’ve had them for over a month and really no complaints only once have I had to reset the router cause PS5 speeds were cooking it but beside that no real complaints

Same here. 2 BE22000's run circles around my old 3 puck Nest Pro mesh. Now they sit in a closet. Don't think I'd feel comfortable giving them away.

I recently just upgraded to the Wyze pro routers from the Google nest WiFi pro. The nest WiFi pro is an absolute joke compared to the Wyze routers so far. I have around 60 connected devices between two hardwired routers and the nest WiFi pro couldn’t even stream music to multiple speakers without hiccuping constantly. So much for a pro router. Decided to check out Wyze while I could still return the nest WiFi pro and I must say it’s night and day difference. The wyze routers are much faster than the nest WiFi pro and also the range is much further as well So far very impressed. Thank you for the threat that helped me make the jump!

I just dumped 4 Google WiFi nodes because they do such a shit job of ongoing support. I am on TP Link now. I don't think the app is quite as clean, but it does what I need and works very well.

The new Gfiber router + extender is a mesh network, and hardware wise ( the app and configurability suck) is better than most reasonably affordable canned mesh networks you'd buy. As others have mentioned, if you can connect the extender to the main router via Ethernet and that will likely drive a huge improvement. If that's not viable you may want to add another extender. It's $85 from Google fiber. You may reduce speed/add latency as the signal bounces through two extenders to get to the router, but you'll improve coverage.

The mesh network also has latency issues. I removed the mesh puck and only use the pro router. My gaming, working, streaming, and wifi security cameras all work how they are supposed to, ever since I moved to router only. Unless you can wire the points together, forget about it.

We use google wifi pro. Have the router and two AP’s covering 4400 foot three story house. Have an additional AP that came with the set sitting unused cause I don’t need it. This replaced the first gen nest wifi which was ok but laggy at times. Much happier with the Google wifi pro. Have not had to reset any of it since installation several months ago. It’s not the fastest or the cheapest but it’s not ugly either. I am running them wired. My primary complaint is that when the internet is down, the google home app provides no information

2 years ago, I set up a Google Nest WiFi Pro 3 pack at a friends house. They have been complaining about intermittent connection issues, dips in speed, etc. I am trying to get them setup with a new system for them but want to make sure I do the proper research. They have 3 full floors (a basement with 2 bedrooms, half floor up to a garage/entryway, a half floor up to a living room/kitchen, and a full floor up to two more bedrooms) with approximately 3000 sq ft. The main router is in a corner of the basement. We were looking at replacing with the TP-Link Deco AX3000 WiFi 6 Mesh System(Deco X55). It claims to cover 6500 sq ft, which should be good. Should this suffice? Is there any product that makes more sense given the multiple floors? They don't have any devices that could utilize WiFi 7 so I am not sure if it is worth it. Any other tips?

\> What's their current Internet speed? Current internet speed: gigabit \> Are there a lot of data intensive tasks or devices in the network? No, there are not a lot of data intensive tasks. However they have many smart devices. I am trying to get an exact number but I would guess around 20 smart devices. \> Are you planning on wirelessly meshing the system or hardwiring each node (if you opt for the 3 pack)? The plan is to wirelessly mesh the system. Hardwiring each node would require ethernet wiring between floors or across a floor. Wireless daisy chain is the plan. \> to upgrade their Internet to anything higher than gigabit speeds I don't think they will get anything better an gigabit speeds for awhile imo. They are a little more suburban, borderline rural. I mostly just want to make sure this is as good as we can get for a reasonable price given how awful the Google Nest Wifi Pro was. They consistently would get 20mbps download AT BEST in the second floor living room, even after moving around the nodes as much as we could.

Zero issues with nest wi-fi pro, even in mesh configuration, recommended to a dozen friends/family and never get any complaints about it.

Nest WiFi pro with one point. Have 40 devices connected (obviously not all running at the same time). Small 1200 aq ft single story home but with 6500 property. No issues

Google wifi pro is not worth getting unless you can wire the nodes to the main nest router. At least in the US where wifi 6 is weak and used for wifi backhaul the nodes. Without wired backhaul, you will likely have worse performance than you have now in the US I do have wired backhaul and they were a great upgrade for me.

I use pro. I should put my 4 old ones on eBay.

Exactly. Put another way, Pro with wifi backhaul sucks, at least in the US, because it relies on weak wifi 6e band.

By the way,in the US, pro kind of sucks unless the points are connected by wires.

I switched to Google Nest Wifi Pro 6E from my Eero Pros ( 3 pucks for 3 pucks ) and surprisingly my wifi speeds on devices have been better on Google. The ethernet speed hasn't seemed to change. I wanted to switch over to Google because I am trying to move away from Apple-centric stuff and Apple Home in particular, replacing it with Google Home. A lot more devices seem to work for Google Home that did not work for Apple Home. Its not been long but I have had no internet drops, no lag, no issues at all compared to the Eero's and its been significantly easier getting my fiancee to control things via Google Home rather than needing to jump through like six different apps for things that didn't play nice in Apple Home. I would say its still worth it. The idea on paper to always getting the best most advanced stuff makes sense but if your ISP hasn't sold you a plan that gets you 2.5GB internet speeds then it doesn't matter if the device is capable of providing that. You won't get that speed. It comes down to your budget and your comfortability. Upgrading a router for just $120 is a good deal.

I have owned every version of Google/Nest WiFi and I will not get them again. There are companies out there that are fully 100% focused on this stuff and they do a better job of it than Google does who has its attention focused on other products. My Nest WiFi pro pods are very unreliable and have had connection issues daily for months now with no fix in sight.

How so? I've got the Google Nest Pro and I fucking hate it. Setting it up was a breeze though. The fact that there's literally zero configuration options brings in the hate. That and the inconsistent performance.

I have used Google/Nest Wifi for the last 8 years, starting from v1. Then, I added a couple of AP v2. In a new place, I've started with Pro version with 6e support. For some people, it doesn't work just due to the size of the space. Google/Nest AP may cover smaller areas compared to other vendors but work flawlessly when you have enough APs. I tried Tplink in the past and had speed losses between APs, no matter if it reported great signal in a mesh network.

Yeah I've had the Nest WiFi for about 6 years now and it's been a never ending battle. Had those problems early on, tried working with their customer service a few times and surprise surprise, their script always blames the ISP and they never take responsibility for their products. There was a period of about a year where they worked pretty well and then over the last year, they would disconnect a couple times a week. Sometimes I can restart the network from the app but unplugging each device usually works the best for a few days. I'm done with Google hardware, they just don't seem to care about customer service and making a quality product. Looking around for a new system, TP link has good reviews but security concerns being Chinese owned. Eero is unfortunately Amazon owned and D-link, which was a leader back in the day now makes sub par systems. Can't decide where to go.

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.

this is a great price and will work well for what you are wanting it to do. The nest devices get constant updates unlike some of the other mesh models. Eero is the only other device to get constant updates but the 6e version is almost tripple this price. The wifi 6e is also going to be good to get devices onto the fastest network. That is a bloody good price aswell. I am in Aus aswell. Just recommended someone else to do this setup (they are on 1000/50 FTTP Plan) and they get almost full speeds throughout the house. I currently only personally have 1 of the original google wifi devices at my parents house and its been rock solid for years and they even got some wifi security cameras. the wireless backhaul will just jump to the best available. so if it can use the wifi 6e as backhaul it will, if it needs to jump to 5ghz it will. Id expect to see 500-700 on the PS5.

We use a Google Nest mesh network with 2 access points with TMHI. Been using it for 2 1/2 years now with no problems. Also, added a TP-Link extender for the backyard and again no problems. FYI.

I have my Google Nest Mesh Wifi connected to the TMHI hub via ethernet. The primary access point is connected to the TMHI and I have a secondary access point in another out building around 50ft away. All works well. Also, I checked the speed on my Nest Mesh wifi compared to the TMHI wifi and the Nest Mesh is faster. FYI

No. This is a piece of hardware that requires other pieces to work. UniFi sells business and enterprise networking equipment. It requires a management system to be in place. A cloud key or Dream Machine is needed to configure this. Think, professional use only where professional knowledge is necessary. Return this to where you purchased it. If you want to use Mesh, pickup a TP-Link Deco system, Eero, or a Google Nest WiFi system for a ***proper*** functional system that won’t make things worse. Don’t buy garbage called “range extenders” or “WiFi boosters”.

Skip extenders and go mesh Error, Deco or nest will cover all 3 floors reliable. Keep the motorola as modem turn off it's WiFi and let the mesh handle everything.

I had a lot of issues with the google nest wifi- for the past year or so I have used an Asus ZenWifi which works better for me, and I do have usable network access from my shed which is about 100 Ft away from the house. My biggest issue is getting a signal past the walls/siding in our house- there is 'double' siding because the house originally had asbestos siding, and a former owner put vynil over it. I get by this with a small enclosure holding one node just out side the walls of the house.

I recently switched from a Nest WiFi mesh (3 routers and 1 point) to 3 XE75 (AXE5400). The range and speed are significantly faster, and the app is way better. At the edge of our home, I used to barely get 10-30 Mbps (and with dropouts) with 4 units and now get 300+ Mbps with 3 Decos. Game changer.

This is so true. I had a Google Nest WiFi. It was fine, but I wanted to run a Firewalla firewall and the lack to backhaul support ended up being a pain. I have an ASUS now and it’s great. Zero complaints.

I use Google nest mesh, it's similar to eero but, ya know... Google. If Google fiber is available in your area, it comes with it. Rock solid, covers my whole house, including 8 Sonos units.

Avoid Google Nest. They often go offline and lose connection requiring reboots. It got so bad that I had smart switches with rolling nightly reboots. Google support was a special kind of useless.

I have 2 separate ISPs with one on deco and one on google. the only issue I have seen so far with Google is 1 mesh device will randomly go down and the doorbell feed never shows when someone rings the bell

I use Google mesh Nest. My main access point / Router is on second floor and I have a point on our main floor. My sim rig is in the basement below my main floor point. My wifi speed tests always give me a 416 Mbps up with 166 down. I’ve never noticed any sort of major connection issue with iRacing. My ping in iRacing consistently reads 99 or less in the iRacing U.I. I’m in Canada using Rogers High speed internet.

I have 2 points and the router and I get point drops daily. I’m only at 1300sf house and they’re at the corners and center of the house. It’s by far the most annoying part of having these.

I used to like the nest but never got the speeds promised until I bought Asus rog router and mesh link wow I’m getting the whole gig almost every where in the house

I switched to google nest, covers my 4000 ft with only a single remote. Extemely easy to install.

I keep getting messages saying the non-router node has gone offline and it affects my kid's internet on that side of the house. 1700 sqft single story so we arnt talkinga about a big house. I'm not rich lol. -

Hey I am having the same problem with the Nest and wanted to go to the TP Link Deco. I wanted to ask if you ended up going with and most importantly are you happy?

I recently changed from using the Google Nest Wifi Mesh to the TP Link Deco Wifi Mesh, and the Deco is honestly performing better and hasn't disconnected repeatedly like how the Google Nest Wifi Mesh was. I just wanted to make this post for any people who are currently using the Google Nest Wifi Mesh and are experiencing constant frustrations and/or internet disconnections and are unsure of what to do or what new Wifi Mesh to change to. Definitely change to using the Deco.

Google seems to have a habit of making things work in the beginning, then their devices just randomly stop working properly.

With Google's Wifi Mesh you have to reboot them several times each month & it still doesn't fix anything. Lol!

We’ve got a Nest mesh- main router in the front of the house and access points in the center of the basement and in the two back corners of the house. So basically in a Y formation. That’s roughly 1600sqft total coverage and we don’t have any issues.

We use a Nest WiFi mesh at my mother-in-laws and it gets the job done. They are really simple to setup.

Mesh only. I use Nest WiFi and I'm very happy with it, I hear good things about other mesh systems. My home has 3 points, in combination they serve the entire indoors, one helps a ton with the front of house and the other immensely improves coverage for the three cameras I have in the back yard. Just mesh, 2-4 points based on size and layout of your property.

I gave up on Google Nest Wifi this year and went full Unifi. I've had Google gear in various forms since they had the OnHub. Like a lot of google products, it gets worse in each iteration. Unifi blows it out of the water.

I didn't return it, I've had OnHub, then Google Wi-Fi, then Nest Wi-Fi. They all now sit in a big box in my office, I'll put them on eBay or something. I moved to a full Unifi setup. My stack had been needing an overhaul so I replaced a number of items so my wired network can do a minimum of 2.5Gbps. I replaced an older 48 port Dell switch with a 24 port Pro max 24. My AP's all got replaced with Nano HD's (4 in total) (not 2.5Gbps but anything that needs those speeds is wired anyway) I have an Express 7 router as my main device, that will eventually be replaced by the Cloud Gateway Fiber when it comes back in stock. When I replace it, the Express 7 will become a Wi-Fi 7 AP and replace one of the Nano's. Hope that helps.

The Nest Wifi is great and can be a hub for the OG Google Wifi pucks in a mesh setup. My Nest Wifi serves 4 pucks (all wirelessly) and it's rock solid. A pair of Nest Wifi units in a mesh setup is probably great.

gosh i hope so. i just updated to a new ISP with 1g up and down. and am ditching my Nest mesh today . discount on eero 6+ at AMZ and they arrived a few hours ago. this new ISP has a PLUME router - you can see my post about the issues i have had with sonos. .. including just an hour ago - suddenly saying it cant find my system ... has happened several times since monday (new install) hopefully the switch will help

I was an early adopter and had stuck with it until recently. Suddenly my wifi become very slow, I spent days with Google support trying to resolve the issues. Including resetting the system twice and waiting overnight as recommended by Google support. All of this did not resolve the issues. I dumped it and bought a TP-Link Deco 3 price mesh and my wifi has never been faster, very glad I made the switch.

Same, I don't get the hate. Cheap, easy to set up and maintain, good signal throughout my living space It was definitely an upgrade from the more expensive Nest system I was using

Better move on. I used google nest for over a year now and was getting tired of the constant drop and speed and rebooting networks. It’s a common complaint in Reddit and no solution in sight from google. I switched to Asus and it’s performing much better

I used the Nest Wifi for many years now and no problem. My brother in Texas loved his Eero 6.

You have both advertising the same ssid? Wifi devices transition fine between the 2 routers? I'm thinking of doing this. Tired of crappy mesh. First Nest mesh started getting jittery, then switched to tplink deco's and after 1 year, there was latency and packet drops all over the place. I might as well just get 2 nighthawks routers and do what you did.