WiFi System

Early in my career I made sure I had ethernet ran to every room, had a PIX firewall in my basement, had a torrent server running, etc. Now? I just use Google Nest Wifi connected directly to the ONT and spread a few extra mesh units around the house. No need to make anything complex.

Forget the Google crap. It’s garbage. Take that $300 and put it towards a UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra, a Lite 8 PoE switch, and a U6+ AP. You’ll only spend just a little more than the Nest WiFi Pro, and it’s a system that you’ll actually be pleased with. Bonus, you’ll have room for expansion later - j

It’s very unclear what your problem is. The most important question: If you’re hardwired to your Ethernet jack (where the internet in the house comes in), is the internet reliable? If no, investigate different providers. Sonic or MonkeyBrains are probably the best in SF, if they’re available to you.

For those not interested in a wall of text. TL;DR:After years of unreliable performance with smart home devices—including disconnecting speaker groups, Nest cameras dropping, and general network instability—you replaced your Nighthawk + extender setup with Nest WiFi Pro, only for it to get even wors

I have it. Speeds are great. Seamless roaming does not work as well as the Google Nest WiFi 5 system it replaces however.

It's strange that people have polar opposite experiences with Google's Wifi routers, something is going on My Nest Wifi has been solid for 5 years I had it, though it is a single unit, no mesh.

Couple things are unlikely: a software upgrade caused them all to get slower they all are slightly failing the same way devices connecting to them updated in some way that makes them less compatible Some things are more likely: one of the google wifi routers has gone bad, losing a capacitor or anoth

The 6E will be more than enough to 500mbit broadband internet. I had Nest WiFi for years and loved it, it integrated well with my Google Home. When AT&T offered 2.5Gbit fiber, I could no longer use the Google product as a main router as it was limited to 1Gbit passthrough. I ended up on much more ex

Had a similar issue. Turned out the issue was my router, not my lights. I was running a Google WiFi puck that combines 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz into one SSID but the 2.4Ghz just kind of stopped working for certain devices. Replaced it with a router where I can create a separate 2.4Ghz network and connect all

Friday follow-up. After a few more days of pulling my hair out, I think I've found the uderlying issue. My home network is a Google Wi-Fi Mesh network, I originally had the 1st gen nodes, and during this white screen of death month, I migrated to the Google Wi-Fi Pro mesh and replaced my entire netw