Google Wifi - Nest Wifi Pro

Been a Google WiFi use from the start when it was great. Had the pucks (10!) around the house with only 1 as router (no backhauling) connected to internet, and it gave great coverage and good speed throughout our house 6000 sq ft. Over time, mesh became weaker and more unstable, dead spots, drop outs of devices, etc. I figured upgrading to the Nest Pros Wifi would get things back on track and as many have reported here and elsewhere, that is absolutely not the case. Complete garbage mesh, same problems as before, even worse. Inexplicably slow wifi even when app records blazing fast intern et connection (1Gb) and all points are "great connection" with strong signal throughout out. Only thing which fixes the problem is resetting the whole network which works for a few hours then requires reset. So several times a day. I see many many people with same problem here and on Gogle forums and elsehwere and seems no fix is forthcoming ever. So I am bailing on this and am looking for alternative mesh solution. Lot's of people saying TP-Link Deco is a great choice and they've been extremely happy. My question is exactly which model of TP-Link Deco and how many points do I need. We have 6000 sq FaceTimehouse, tons of wifi connected devices. Trying to get some guidance here on what people have used and what I should do. Thank you!

Sounds good, I will gladly sell you my Nest Pros (I have 7.) This is the mesh I am trying to get out of. If you really want it, I will sell/trade with you since I am trying to get Decos. I agree, original pucks worked amazingly for a long time. Sometime after they ported over from the Google WiFi dedicated app to being part of Google home it all went south.

Mine worked fine for about 6 months. Now it's constantly dropping points for no apparent reason over and over. Have to reboot the system pretty much everyday. Screwed up MANY Zoom meetings now. So disappointed.

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

I tried both backhaul IP Passthrough with 2 nest wifi pro and ATT fiber mesh extenders. I’m getting better signal frequency with ATT extender. Worth $10/ month

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.

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.

I find it's very buggy and I don't think I'd buy the Nest WiFi Pro again if I was given a do over. My phone will often refuse to load apps unless I turn off WiFi and then reconnect. This only happens on the Nest. On every other connection, I have no issues. The connection coming into the house is rock solid.

I use google nest wifi pro. Homekit is good but it isnt really good for a few devices. (Eg some wifi devices claim to use both 5ghz and 2.4ghz fails on 5ghz. And it can’t be manually set to 2.4ghz)

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

I just upgraded from the original nest wifi to wifi pro because of all the Google store credit I had. the only issue I've had is connecting a unmanaged switch and getting those devices to not be capped at 100mbps. I had to basically connecting all of the devices then unplug the wifi and my ont then plug them back in. I have a 1900 sf house but 3 levels as the basement is finished and I've had no issues getting a solid 5 or 6 GHz connection on any device. all of my wired devices (my pc and ps5 among them) are hitting 700-900mbps (I have fios gig). I got rid of my old wireless because I had to keep rebooting the network almost daily otherwise speeds would be shit. so far I've had these bad boys for 2 weeks no need to reboot yet except for what I mentioned before. I'm happy for now I think the issue people have often times are bad placement of the points. I'm a IT Consultant and when you're not dealing with enterprise grade networking equipment, you're going to need them closer than what Google advertises. sure in a giant ass 2200sq room everyone would get a great connection but in reality people have walls and brick and interference from other devices etc which all can kill performance. for the price so far it's been a excellent purchase.

that's how the old wifi was for me after about 3 years it just kind of sucked so I got the pros haven't had that issue yet. how far are your aps from each other?

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

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.

I had google WiFi that was fairly reliable but usually never faster than 200 on 1gb service. Replaced with nest pros and had tons of issues with coverage, dropped signals and same slow speeds. Took them back and just installed TP-Link deco xe70 pros. So far no issues and speeds up to 800. And I’m finally free of that atrocity aka google home app. Tplinks is much, much better.

Upgraded from original Google WiFi pucks to the Nest Wifi Pro units about 3 months ago. I need coverage for about 2,000 sq ft including the garage and a patio with no wired backhaul and they've worked fine for me. You'll always hear more from the dissatisfied folks than the ones with no issues.

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

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

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

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 had the original Nest Wifi and now the 6e pro and love it. Including my basement I have roughly 3,500 sq ft with 4 points and no issues. This is with 6 TV's several cameras and tons of other devices.

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 tried to stick it out with the free Fios CR1000A router, but I needed an extender. They offered a free extender. The one they sent was the E3200 extender it is was trash. i tried to get them to send me a CE1000A extender but they won’t not do it. Told me it was for the cities with 2 gig service only. Which I am not able to get. I purchased a CE1000A extender myself to replace the E3200 and it’s working better. But for $250 it’s not worth it IMO. I returned it and just purchased a Google Nest WiFi Pro 2 pack for a little less than $200 from Best Buy. Hoping that works better for me.

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.

If you have a mix of older devices and some that support 6e and really want to take advantage of the higher throughput, you may be disappointed. Seems some older devices can cause the router to throttle back more & more till you have extremely poor connection. Google's implementation of WPA3 may be the culprit and disabling it seems to help, while making your Wi-Fi less secure, of course. I'm in a 2800 sqft house with the Pro 2-pack and no wired back haul and have quite good coverage, tho I'm considering adding a 2nd point to cover the garage/patio a bit better. I'll probably add the wired back haul eventually since my house was wired with cat5e when it was built, but the previous owner never connected it. I've been happy enough with the speeds I'm getting from the Pro since disabling WPA3 that I haven't invested the time/money yet.

As others have said, the AXE5300 is better than the AX5000 because it's Tri-Band. A month ago it was on sale for $250 (originally $350), but the price tag in your photo doesn't indicate a sale which means that it must be the normal price now. So it might get discounted again in the future to $200. Anyways, I found the Nest Wifi Pro 6E at my warehouse for only $100 (normally $450) for some reason. I think it's an objectively worse product than the AXE5300, but I couldn't pass on the price.

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

Ended up getting Google Nest Pro. Seems like it works just fine, but kind of pricey 450 tax in.

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.

Return it. I would have already if I wasn't already 4 units deep. They suck donkey balls. Like the mesh works but I have a couple computers that require me to reset the network daily from the app in order to use. What is worse is there is no fix in like 2 years, 0 customer service and really no hope. They are so simple they are unfixable.

I'm 2 months in with a 3 pack and haven't rebooted once. What signs did you see that triggered a reboot?

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

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.

I went from Netgear Nighthawk -> Google Pucks (great) -> Google Pro (mistake!!!!) -> Unifi DMP (meh) -> Eero (never looking back!) I've also learned to trust Amazon more than Google. Google will just drop a product from support. They will limit your ability to fine tune your own system. The Eero has just worked for the last 2 years. It updates itself in the middle of the night, and I've never noticed. It's the first WiFi that I have NEVER had to reboot to fix something. Don't know a lot about TP Link.....but stuff like this: https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-lawmakers-demand-probe-into-tp-link-claiming-spying-risks-from-china

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

Not the best, but Nest Wifi Pro works well for me and supports wired backhaul.

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

With wired backhaul they should work well. The wifi 6 backhaul is the problem. If you got them at a good price they are worth keeping. If they were expensive and your current wifi is satisfactory, I would probably wait for wifi 7 at this point since it should be available at a reasonable price next year.

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.

My pro works great but I use wired backhaul. Pro uses wifi 6 for wifi backhaul which is very weak in the US. You should go back to non pro and use fewer points. You have too many. 6 is max recommended.

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 don't have a big 3 bedroom 2 bath condo and have bought a second nest wifi pro because the 5ghz does not extend into the far bedroom which has a pretty big firewall wall in front that includes the door to the bedroom.

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.

The google nest wifi pro does have wired backhaul

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've had TMHI for 2 years now. I have a Google Nest mesh system with 1 TP link extender. I connected my primary Google Nest hub to the KVD21 hub via ethernet cable to the back of the KVD21 hub. I then used the HINT app to turn off the KVD21 wifi radios. Been working great ever since.

No. Unfortunately on Google Nest devices you don't have the option of setting that. At the same time though, we've been getting really good speeds and my mesh Network has never failed with the T-Mobile internet hub.

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.

Mesh wifi is still in infancy. Much development still needs to be done. Good concept but expanding beyond 3 nodes is iffy. I used Google Nest to mesh and backhaul my home of 3 stories and 6 nodes. Generally, it works… But according to Google’s terms. That is, it will reboot, update and show up or disappear unexpectedly. Since there is no monetisation from it, it will be minimum effort to make it better. It is also not their product market unless there is long term subscription and benefits to them. A one time payment is not their style. They probably got into the market to quickly get a foothold. Then later see how to reap more money like integrating Google Home, Alexa, etc. Wifi is such a legacy system with so much need to ensure backward compatibility, it is difficult for any router makers to produce a very good product. Apple has given this a pass likely for this reason. Knowing them, they’ll create something new and powerful, but then, only the latest Apple products will work. Prior to this, I’ve used Netgear products - and still using an old 10/100 non-wireless router of 20 years old. If you’re wondering, just some printers and old PC attached. So, Netgear might be a good option.

https://preview.redd.it/2bv1zo7zx6qd1.png?width=4032&format=png&auto=webp&s=480670a4fd15088a5d03dfaa07d0a9442c1e3538 I live in the UK and have a garden office. My internet setup is a Google Nest Wi-Fi system with three points. The main router is located in the lounge where the internet comes in, one point in the kitchen (as close as possible to the external wall), and another in my garden office, as shown in the picture (you can see in the picture the first door is actually a small utility room). This is the best I could do for coverage into the office with quite a bit of experimentation. While the Wi-Fi speed in the garden office is about 50% of what I get inside the house (when all doors are closed), it’s just about acceptable. However, the main issue is that the Google Wi-Fi setup is unreliable. Every couple of days, one of the points will go down and require a reboot. I’ve contacted Google support, reset, etc, but the problem persists. I've think I given up with this approach. What would be decent alternative? I'm not totally against trying run a cable between office and house if it's necessary but be good to know if it is necessary.

Annoyingly this version of Google WiFi doesn’t support wired connections. Plus the bloody things crashing constantly is infuriating

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.

UniFi is the answer. Love it. I’ve used Netgear, Early Google, Nest, and others. They are trash compared to UniFi.

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 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 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

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’ve been using a Google nest mesh network since 2 years and it works perfectly.

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.

Can't speak to the Pro but I have a mix of the old hardware and I love it. Most of my issues are my connection/modem, so I just reboot both modem and main router when I need to, but Nest WiFi itself has only been an issue like 2-3x over the last 4.5 years I've been using it. FWIW the 4 pack on Amazon has a 4.5 rating, the 2 pack has a 4.0 rating, seems like the majority are satisfied.

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

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.