Price dropped to 388. With Amex $100 off when you spend $400 Harvey Norman, you can buy a $12 dollar items and bring it down to $288 cheapest by far.
Google Wi-Fi - 3 Pack $388 (Free C&C) + Delivery @ Harvey Norman
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Lfullmetal on 21/11/2017 - 08:38 harveynorman.com.au (556 clicks)
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Op, your math is off. Your amex deal would become $300.
The price of the Google wifi is 388 but you still need to get $12 worth of other purchase to hit the amex 400.
Thus, my calculation is 388 + 12 worth of other purchase and apply the 100 off to only the Google wifi it gives you 288 + 12 worth of other purchase.
What are the downsides to these compared to others (like Netgear)?
yeah, also would like to know
Google's reason for existing is collecting user data to serve unwanted advertising which causes unconscious increases in the victims spending habits.
Unlike free to air television networks.
Very locked down software wise. Have to use an app to configure and not as many options as a normal router. But lots of parental control stuff etc. And its pretty much plug and play. Also made to blend in with your house since you will have them in multiple rooms.
I am still considering this as a mesh system, but not sure mesh is the correct solution for me.
Upside: CHEAP compared to the others, small footprint compared to the Orbi. App is better.
Downside: Orbi has better hardware (AC3200) and satellite provides faster wifi compared to Google.
Recommendation: You can't go pass Google at this price even thought I have the Orbi and very happy with it's performance. Orbi app is basic, will improve but ssslowly.Agreed with the locked down software.
Negs for me were:
- Cannot change DHCP range
- Unable to split SSID into 2.4ghz and 5ghz
- Range on single GWifi was lower than my old TP Link in the same spot
- Sometimes it will fall back to 2.4ghz when I'm on the edge of range, when staying on a faster 5ghz but lower signal would be betterPositives for me:
- Super simple setup
- Really easy to add the second device
- Being mesh it doesn't split signal like some range extenders
- Hasn't needed a reboot in the 3 months I have had it
- Able to login remotely anywhere and configure it without additional setupI know its designed to be used as a mesh so I bought a second to push to the back of the house and back alfresco since I just needed a tad more coverage. Has been faultless for me since day 1.
Thanks for the feedback.
So it is a bit slower compared to Orbi. But for this price, it is a good buy.I would say so. My older TPLink had faster Wifi capabilities but would always drop out etc since I got NBN. I bought my single ones during goodguys 20% off so paid ~$160 each.
how can i pay with westpac amex online to get $100 off?
So I'm running an old Netgear wireless N modem router, does this just plug into it and then I've got AC mesh across the house? Is it worth buying a better/smaller modem to try and get suck the best speeds out of my ADSL 2 & reduce the bulk of hardware?
This replaces all your wifi devices because it runs differently. Works much better than wifi extender or wifi modem.
Hardware footprint doesn’t bother me at all. Just put them in a corner and they look ‘deco’ or ‘wife’ friendly.
Cheers for the help mate
If you used ethernet (ie cable in the back to a PC), are you able to get the speed you were expecting for your internet provider (ie is it as fast as you're ever going to get)? If so, then the wireless N is the bottleneck in which case changing the modem isn't going to improve speeds but installing a better wireless system such as Google Wifi might work well and will still continue to plug into the existing modem.
With these can I use an ethernet cable to trunk back to the other device?
By the time you use them with a cable rather than using the wifi mesh, you might be better off with Unifi stuff.
any chance you have some basic info on this? we have 2 access points at either end of our place with a cat6 "trunk" between them. even though the two access points have the same SSID/password/security settings etc, it's not seamless. we'll walk away from one point and closer to the other and the wifi just drops off then eventually picks up on the closer one.
what devices do unifi have that will help me with this?
edit: nevermind - done a bunch of reading. might pickup the unifi 3 pack :)
Nice price. Thanks for spotting this OP!
Can I plug a switch into one of the pucks? I have a few devices in one location which rely on ethernet (eg. Hue and NAS). I guess given they are just sitting near my Telstra Gateway Frontier for convenience, there's no reason I can't move the Hue at least, and the rest can switch over to wifi if it's fast enough.
Also, if I put a puck next to my laptop in the living room - would I get better results using wifi on the laptop (Killer 1535 Wireless AC and Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet), or plugging it into the Ethernet port on the puck?
My boss has a huge 2 storey house so thinking this will be useful for her. Wondering how you get coverage between floors though as currently wifi router can't make it upstairs through the concrete?
I've got a large 3 story house with this set up for the last few months.
First puck in the kitchen right in middle of the ground floor.
One more at the rear in the study on the ground floor, which seems to give coverage UP into the rear of the first floor.
Final puck on first floor right where the staircase is.
The above seems to give good coverage everwhere in the house.
Cheers for that
I currently have a bridge in the granny flat which connects to the main Telstra Max routers.
Speed test shows 100Mb/s connections.
What advantage would the mesh technology have over a bridging router?Do you have separate wireless networks? (and do you want them to be separate?)
I'd say if you're consistently getting 100Mbps throughout your home then there's no need to upgrade. For me, whilst I do get near to my 100Mbps, there are some blackspots for my 2.4Ghz devices, and I like the ability to plug wired devices into the back of the puck.
I guess mesh is good if you have a few black spots due to copper in the walls and you don't want to fiddle with routers.
Otherwise, if you are tech savvy, (I think) a powerful router (Netgear R7000) combined with wireless access points would be faster.
I can't see how mesh would be able to beat the speed of R7000.
ps. Thanks Op - picked one of these up today along with a $12 thermometer at the counter.
dang i woulda been all over this for $288 but missed out on the american express deal :(