I have my home and two outbuildings - a garage that is 50’ away and a workshop another 50’ away. Using the 3-pack system, would the first 3-pack system WiFi to the second, and the second to the third? Is that how it could be configured?
I have Centurylink fiber with a VDSL2 router. I get 100 mbps wired but my WiFi is only 20 mbps. Will the Google WiFi provide faster speeds over my WiFi?
The wifi ‘points’ are all the same. Plug 1 into your router and place the other 2 in other rooms. Follow the instructions for activation of each point. Google recommends a max of 6 points on a single mesh network:
Note: We recommend a maximum of 6 points in a single mesh set up, which can cover up to 9,000 sq. ft. This is usually sufficient for the average home, although some have networks covering up to 13,500 sq. ft.
So you could most likely get away with two 3 packs. If you need 9 points then I would ask google the question.
I purchased these a few months ago at Target to hook up to our 35MB DSL in our new (to us) 3,500 sq foot rambler. Set up was a breeze and I have had zero issues. We’re running two laptops, streaming on a PS4, a few iPhones/iPads, and WiFi speakers all seamlessly. I like the functionality of the app too for sharing the password and seeing what devices are online. It’s very simple.
I would recommend and buy again.
I have had these for 9 months and they work great. Our house is wired for CAT5 and we use them wired instead of mesh, so we probably get slightly better performance.
They were easy to set up using the phone app (iOS in our case) and have bandwidth monitoring and some traffic control.
One neat feature is that you can expose connected devices to the guest network, like a printer, Chromecast, or Apple TV, to let guests access them.
Another neat thing is that if you use them in mesh mode, you can use the Ethernet port to connect wired devices.
I get the same wifi speeds with these (anywhere in my house) as I do when I plug directly into my modem. The wifi performance is a lot better than the budget level TP-Link router I was using before.
Yes as long as the WiFi devices could handle it!!!
Spend another $20.00 and get a brand new one on Amazon with a full warranty!!!
Will Google Wifi replace my Frontier router that I rent from Frontier for $10/mo
I just installed this system a week ago in my house. I turned off the WiFi in my Comcast router & added the first Google hub as the “primary” hardwired to the modem/router. From here you add the other nodes in the mesh as repeaters. They transfer their data back (backhaul) either wired or wireless. I have a Cat5 running under my crawlspace to the other half of my house so the one backhaul link is hardwired. The 3rd hub is upstairs and backhauls using wireless. It covers the upstairs bedroom area and most of my backyard (maybe 45 foot radius). Both setups went just fine.
Each has a port for an LAN-side cat5 connector so it can act as a WAP (or the hardwire backhaul connector). I use this port to connect to a 8 port ethernet hub in my entertainment center and it works fine. My entertainment center goes from receiver (or XBox or whatever) to one hub, backhauls to the other, then out to the internet via the Comcast router. For Wifi-connected devices, I have the same broadcast name throughout the house and if I walk about with my phone, it just hops from hub to hub all using the same SSID name.
Coverage greatly depends on what you’re jamming wireless signals through. My exterior walls are coated in foil-lined styrofoam and that’s pretty tough for it. It’s why I run Cat5 to my remote house parts because my “L” shaped house has two foil walls between the main router & the remote part of the house.
The app is pretty good, it gives you status of the mesh & lets you speed test the mesh to your devices & to the internet itself. Setup was via the app and, other than being impatient, was pretty painless. Note: wait 'til the hub starts pulsing blue light before you try setting it up.
No. It’s not a modem, just a mesh WAP. You’ll turn off the WiFi in your current router and use this for all the Wifi.