Google Nest Wifi Router, Strong connection, Every direction

Was totally fed up with Virgin Media's Hub 3 wifi performance, literally would hardly work outside of 5 meters from their hub, so ordered this nest wifi router. Very easy setup, just plugged ethernet cable into virgin router, attached all the house's wifi devices to it, disabled virgin wifi and boom! Works amazingly in every room in the house (4 bed) with good wifi speeds throughout. Wasn't sure if I'd need 2 of these, but no, one is sufficient. Thoroughly recommended, with half decent control tools for family etc included.

Good value router second hand with a strong performance in mesh arrangement, ok in single arrangement but its strength lies in a group of devices

Like all mesh routers, this works by broadcasting wifi between the router and points elsewhere in the house which then broadcast their own wifi signal. It wins on ease of use and set up by comparison with more complex mesh/router set ups. For a majority of people, this is the best approach. A couple of points to note:-You cannot split the 2.4 and 5ghz bands, which can sometimes be a problem for some devices.-It works best if you remove your broadband providers router if connected to FTTP and connect direct to your modem.-You can have too many points - I used to have 5, but cut that to 3 and my signal improved.-The built in parental controls are free and excellent if you consider many brands charge extra or don't include these (Orbi).-This is effortless when it comes to compatibility with streaming and cloud services.-You can certainly buy faster and more impressive (on paper) mesh routers these days, but the Google Nest system just works and I would take reliability over speed everytime.

I bought a couple of Nest Wifi Routers and have them connected by ethernet.The setup is pretty straight forward and the speed is fine when using an ADSL or Fibre Broadband connection i.e. 100Mbps download speed or less. At that speed the loss between nodes is limited and the system runs pretty reliably.For faster connections there are a couple of limitations to be aware of:- on a 1Gig connection the max wifi speed is around 500Mbps even with a Cat6/7 cable from the router - so Nest loses around 50% of the bandwidth- when the satellite nodes are running in wireless mesh mode the speed falls off further- the upload speed experience is similar - my nest setup loses around 50% of the bandwidthOne big issue with the nest router that I only discovered by reading posts on reddit is that the dual gigabit ethernet ports aren't physically connected - i.e. the router uses software to "bridge" between the ports.The result of this is that even with a fast (1000Mbps) download speed going in to the main nest router, any device that is physically wired in to the second port (or connected to a switch connected to the port) will have a max speed of c600Mbps. This is pretty poor as it's not made clear in the documentation that google provide.The one final issue to be aware of is that Google can and do use the data from your router to add to their profiling of individuals - so there's a huge privacy concern to be aware of for anyone that connects to a network of google routers.

I live in a large basement flat with very thick walls. The BT router would get 65Mb in the living room but most of the flat didn’t get a signal at all.I tried various powerline wifi extenders and at best would get 30Mb with 5 extenders but with constant problems, needed power cycled every few days, drop our and problems with certain makes of device.Now with a Google router and 3 points I get a solid 60-72Mb through out the flat. Took about 30 minutes to get everything setup. Google Assistant (points only) is an added bonus and they are compact and elegant. Only had them 5 days but so far they have just worked.So stable and fast I’ve moved everything to wifi, which has the added bonus of making things simpler with everything being on the same network.Not the cheapest but for this quality, happy to pay the premium.

I'm a Google wifi user and have 3 of the old units dotted around the house and recently had issues with lack of reception back garden as well as internet running slow (not to be mistaken to ISP and ISP hardware or DNS as using Cloudfare DNS)Adding this unit wasn't straight forward as I had to reset the old Google wifi routers to factory before setting up new one as master.Took 3 attempts only mainly down to my own fault of not following instructions and thinking i know how to do it.Once Nest wif setup and using the new app for mobile, everything else fell in to place.Old Google wifi routers powered on and Nest wifi picked up and joined to new home wifi SSID. Second, third all joined without any issues and once placed in desired rooms, all devices connected without fault.Decided to use the original Google wifi master router as a spare for loft room and again, reset device and nest wifi picked up to join.I'm glad to say that I now have 2 bar reception in my garage that's 20 meters back of garden where before, nothing.internet downloads a breeze as I can monitor daily on speeds as well as mesh signal strengths.Now at home, I'm completely wifi and no more home plugs since this unit has altogether removed the need for it.If I had the monies, I would have replaced all old Google wifi with Nest model but seems to be working as required for now.