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Google Nest Wifi Router quick review

meritez

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Was £39 from Amazon, but that's gone, so is it any good?

Was due by the 10th December, but arrived today, it's an AC2200 device, two gigabit ethernet ports, no web interface and fully controlled by the Google Home app.

The Nest WiFi points have Google Assistant etc but, did not order any as Alexa and an Echo Plus sounds superior, for BBC Radio 2 according to the other half.

Router supports PPPoE, so connected to FTTP without issue, and the speed test can do 900 down and 100 up on the device itself, so my FTTP 1000/115 work connection runs fine.

Existing Google Wifi 2016 routers can be attached as a mesh, out of four I've only attached two so far.
 
They make pretty nice smoke & CO detectors!
 

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Was £39 from Amazon, but that's gone, so is it any good?

Was due by the 10th December, but arrived today, it's an AC2200 device, two gigabit ethernet ports, no web interface and fully controlled by the Google Home app.

The Nest WiFi points have Google Assistant etc but, did not order any as Alexa and an Echo Plus sounds superior, for BBC Radio 2 according to the other half.

Router supports PPPoE, so connected to FTTP without issue, and the speed test can do 900 down and 100 up on the device itself, so my FTTP 1000/115 work connection runs fine.

Existing Google Wifi 2016 routers can be attached as a mesh, out of four I've only attached two so far.
I also bought some Google Nest routers from Amazon at £39 each, The mesh WiFi is fine, giving satisfactory speeds for AC2200. However there is no web interface and the Google App is dumbed down so there are limited features and diagnostic information available. Bit disappointing really, Google is normally priced like a premium product but the interface is closer to something like the bargain basement Tenda mesh systems.

The BT Whole Home WiFi is faster(AC2600) and can't be bought for around £100/three units if you keep an eye on the prices(it also has a web interface though can only act as an access point and not a router). I'm due to test out a couple of ASUS XT8 units next week which are very fast indeed(got them on a special deal).
 
@Bob2002 that's why I only purchased one.
Has BT fixed the calling home 86400 times a day issue that plagued their discs
I'm running v1.02.13 build07 firmware(Whole Home) and I'm not seeing Google DNS traffic regularly. I'll probably end up returning or selling the Google Nest routers, I just don't like the lack of web interface and limited control/diagnostics.
 
I'm running v1.02.13 build07 firmware(Whole Home) and I'm not seeing Google DNS traffic regularly. I'll probably end up returning or selling the Google Nest routers, I just don't like the lack of web interface and limited control/diagnostics.
this is what put me off them. they've gone for one of those products that "just works" and you can't configure anything. Not the way I like my kit but for someone like my parents it's perfect just plug in and forget. I recently upgraded and looked at things like eero and google wifi etc.
 
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this is what put me off them. they've gone for one of those products that "just works" and you can't configure anything. Not the way I like my kit but for someone like my parents it's perfect just plug in and forget. I recently upgraded and looked at things like eero and google wifi etc.

Forgot to add Google Nest WiFi only supports mesh in router mode, there is no bridge mode if you require a mesh. Very odd, even cheapo mesh systems typically have a bridge mode for mesh.
 
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