Nest Wifi Router

My old gen 1 Google nests still work perfectly and if service is below 1 gig you won’t notice much improvement. I do use wired backhaul for a remote one to cover a large home with 4 of them. As a bonus you can get them on eBay practically free.

Nobody recommending Google Nest? Been running on gen 1 mesh for over a decade and it still rubs strong. Looking to upgrade to wifi 6, though after I got wifi security cameras.

In my 30 years of IT, consumer routers rarely die in a dramatic puff of smoke. The Wi-Fi usually starts getting slower and\or your connection to the router drops & reconnects. These start as occasional things, but as time marches on the speeds get slower & slower and\or the drops more frequent. THAT'S when you need to look at new routers. 'Cos if it ain't broke now, don't fix it. As far as new routers, I don't do "new". For the past... 3 years? I've been rocking Nest Wi-Fi. But it's the *previous generation* (the 2019 model, I think? Not the 2022 version?). It was NOS at... walmart.com, I think? For $99. It was a great value for the time. I haven't priced a consumer router in a while, tho'.

Eero, google nest, orbi. But you would buy a whole new mesh WiFi setup. If you already have a to link router you wouldn’t go buy a eero to extend off the TPLink

4 software engineers ??!! .. cmon.. don’t matter who your ISP is , if you have a crappy setup , you’re gonna have “wifi” drops you want to setup a MESH system at your home - i recommend ubiquiti but setup can be tricky so , maybe those google Nest routers ? THIS IS IMPORTANT - for ISP , make sure your uploads either match your download or something over 100mbps - a lot of ISPs cheap you with high UP but low DOWN I use Google Fiber