I want to have wifi coverage over the whole house, is getting a 3pk a good idea?
Google Nest Wi-Fi
Lnotabank on 22/02/2022 - 15:21
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Double story, 500 m^2
just my personal experience. Google Nest Wifi probably the worst device to get as it doesn't have lot of flexibility - well. if you just after a device that works - Nest Wifi is fine - however at the same time there are many other cheaper units that perform better than Google Nest Wifi - and less depends on Cloud service. Tp-link Deco devices work fine and no premium price attached.
Just to list one of the (many) things google nest doesn't have
- it can't setup multiple SSID - i personal prefer to separate 2.4 and 5Ghz band into different SSID - there is a work around that - but i am just speaking from out-of-box experience.+1 for Deco M9 x 3 pack, bought it cos of my smart devices. I have a 2 story 5 bedroom house with smarts in the garage and under the pool and the deco handles it no dramas.
My 2c worth, Look for a mesh system that is
1, Tri Band. 2 bands to service your home on 2.5 and 5hz and third for all the nodes to communicate each other.
2. Have a lan cable socket at the back. Handy to get heavy use items like laptop / Tele to be onto that.
3. has wifi-6. This is to be future safe and I reckon already 50% of your devices are wifi-6 ready. Much better connection and faster as well.Unfortunately Google Nest doesnt tick all the above.
A 500m2 house (internal GFA measurement) is HUGE. Sure that doesn't include garage, external paved areas, pool etc..?
That being said, our 3-pack Google Nest covers our house, back yard and most of the front yard, about 1,000m2 of coverage.
I would also suggest that your level of networking/IT competency or confidence plays a part. I travel a lot so wanted something that was virtually fool-proof, or easily able to be restarted and reconfigured by family and friends. So the Google Nest was the preferred choice.
I had the google nest wifi for approx 10 months. It started slowing down my wired connection a fair bit towards the end. Just weird latency issues, connection slowdown (100mbit running at 70mbit etc).
Ended up getting a ASUS router instead and all issues disappeared. Performance increased dramatically
Also cant see your 2.4ghz network which is a pain when trying to setup smart devices as most only support 2.4 range.
how many google points did you have, and what asus did you switch to?
… And how big is your house? 30m2? 100m2? 10000m2? Single story? Double story?
Gonna need a little more info OP.