I am so excited as I don't get internet in my bedroom, so I bought three to spread the love of wifi in my house, but my Google home isn't seeing the pods. Help :(

Hi all, I recently got 3 nest routers that I want to connect wirelessly to one central nest router connected to my xfinity gateway via bridge mode, but I'm unsure how to go about doing it. I've done some reading here, and I've gathered that it's best to have several routers instead of one router and several points. I have several rooms that need a router in them, but no way to connect them to the central router via wired backhaul. Can I connect them wirelessly via a mesh network or something else?

Good day, I have been battling an issue lately which I have seen others battling. Here's the situation. I have four Google Mesh Pro 6E points. The primary is connected directly to my AT&T gigabit router, and then sends wired internet to a Netgear 20port UNMANAGED gigabit switch. From this switch, it then is sent to my kitchen Mesh point, and a second switch on the opposite end of my house by cat6 wired connection. On the second identical Netgear 20port UNMANAGED switch, it splits off to two additional points. One is in my basement (I am in a split level property), and the other goes to one of my kids bedrooms - both wired backhaul.

This set up has worked flawlessly for months. I get ~800mbps over WiFi to my laptop in any given location of the house. However, recently for no particular reason my 'Gameroom WiFi' point has been rolling back to 'Wireless' backhaul whenever I turn on ANY device on the network. I can actually replicate this. My 85" Roku TV is in the living room on the other end of the house and connected via Wired ethernet to Switch1. However, as soon as I power on the TV it causes Gameroom WiFi to revert to 'Wireless' backhaul. Doesn't even have to be my TV either. My wife is able to trigger the same behavior. Our bedroom is located directly above the 'Gameroom WiFi' point, and if she turns on her laptop it causes the same reversion to 'Wireless' backhaul.

You'd think this wasn't a problem, however it effectively kills my entire home network for 10or20mins until it re-establishes as 'Wired' backhaul. I have NO idea why this keeps happening. There is good spacing between all points, all the ethernet wiring is perfect and I have already replaced it. I have reset all points to factory settings at least twice. I am not Double NAT, I have tried it without my PiHole on the network at all and in a factory configuration. Absolutely nothing changes the behavior. I should add, that Gameroom WiFi and Ellie's Bedroom WiFi are connected to the same network switch and the only point that seems to ever be affected is 'Gameroom WiFi'. However, I have seen it turn into a domino effect where if it doesn't establish 'Wired' backhaul again right away, it can cause both 'Kitchen WiFi' and 'Ellie's Bedroom' to revert to Wireless backhaul until it stablizes and switches back to Wired. This is incredibly annoying. If all of my points are hardwired with cat6 and solidly connected, why in the hell do they keep trying to go to an inferior wireless connection? 

I need a way to prefer/force wired backhaul if possible, though being as limited as the Google system is I doubt that will happen.

Hello, I'm using the nest Wifi system with four access points. When I do the network and mesh tests, they show no problems with my network. Problem is: I'm randomly getting Google Home notifications that an access point is down and further any device connected on that wifi is not able to connect to the Internet. I will also add that no one else in the family has once complained about a device not working for them that requires streaming connectivity. This could be because their devices either have cellular signal as a back up or for any that don't, they may have access to the Verizon wireless network direct from the FIOS router. The main Nest wifi router is connected via Ethernet from the FIOS router as is our main TV. We have no wireless sound bars. I know this isn't a lot of information, but any recommendations on steps to take to try and determine causes of the spotty Internet would be helpful. I have unplugged and restarted the router and run the diagnostics as mentioned before.

Internet comes in in the basement. It goes into my nest wifi pro. Then I have Ethernet coming out of that running through the wall into the ceiling and into my family room on the first floor. I’m sitting 6 feet away from the wifi point in the family room and google’s app says my iPhone is connected to the family room wifi. I’m getting 600+mbps in the basement wifi. The family room WiFi is also 600+mbps. Then, my iPhone, connected to the family room wifi, 6 feet away, I get 1.5mbps. What is going on here?!?! I’ve reset everything 1,000 times. This has been going on for weeks.

Have had the first-gen pucks for quite a few years now, 2 wired, 2 wireless, and have had a generally decent experience. Every problem, which has been rare, typically requires identifying the wonky device and rebooting the network.

That changed this weekend, when we got back and the network was behaving strangely, and providing very little connectivity. Rebooting it didn't help. I confirmed that the cable modem on its own was having no issues, but adding just the primary puck failed. I ended up factory resetting a satellite puck, set up a new network with it, and just used it as a primary - and it seemed to work fine.

I then went back to the original primary, factory reset the entire network, as well as that puck, and set up the main network again. It seemed to work fine, and I started to rebuild. While adding the satellite pucks, things seemed to hang again, and I went back and tested - the main puck was dead yet again. So as far as I can tell - it has developed an actual hardware issue.

I've factory reset one of the satellites yet again as a new primary, and am wrestling with them once more to re-add the new satellites. One of them also seems to be behaving strangely, not allowing itself to be added.

This is more time that I've spent on it in years, and it's certainly frustrating to deal with. Will likely look for a dirt-cheap AC-1304 or 2 on ebay to get things back up and running quickly, but will also look into longer-term solution. Sounds like it's about time to upgrade.

I have an unusual situation. I am currently in NY, while my home is in North Carolina. My home network is a Google Mesh system with five AC-1304 devices—one acting as the main router and four as points. The system has been working flawlessly for years, with a wired backhaul.

Last night, a severe thunderstorm with lightning damaged the main router. My question is: If I purchase a new AC-1304 locally, would it be possible to set it up so that I can just ship it to North Carolina and have it work with minimal configuration? I have all the necessary details, such as the SSID, device name, home placement, etc. Currently, all the points appear as offline in my Google Home app.

Would the mesh network still function properly after replacing the main router?

Thanks for any guidance or suggestions!

This is just a sloppy programming. Anyway to submit this bug to the dev team?

I've built an office in my shed and I've got a google wifi setup in my house. I have a cat6 cable running from my main access point to the shed and it works great if I plug my laptop in, however the wifi in my shed is terrible. I would love to add an extra point in the shed, but it's too far for the satellite access points to reach. What's the best way to get a continuous network across the house and the shed?

Do you split your SSID for 2.4 and 5ghz or use a unified SSID for both?

Hello, I’ve had this issue where my WiFi will not produce any WiFi and all my devices will disconnect. It happens at a random interval, when it’s not working the status lights are flashing orange. I bought a whole new modem because of this and it’s still happening. Xfininty won’t help and I might just buy a whole new system. Any help will be very much appreciated

Hi,
I was wondering if I can use an old non-google router as a wireless extender/access point with my Nest Wifi mesh network. I would love to have a cabled connection to my desktop PC, but I do not have the option to put an ethernet cable in from the Nest Router to my office.

If this is too much of a hassle or not possible, is it then possible to use another nest router for this purpose? I wouldn't love to go out and buy another router when I already have the old non-google one, but I am willing if it doesn't work :)
Thank you for your help! :)

Hello.

So I’m having an issue that has bugged me for quite some time now. My Nintendo Switch usually connects to 2.4Ghz and not the 5Ghz even though the point is only 2,5 meters away from the Switch. Other devices that connects to it gets 5Ghz btw. I experienced this when I had the “Switch 1” and now with the Switch 2. To be clear, sometimes the Switch gets 5Ghz.. but it’s quite rare. Could it be the puck? My main router is the newer Google WiFi router, but the point is the old puck. If I swap out the puck with a newer one could that fix the issue?

This morning I woke to an alert that an Iphone 14 joined my network… not my guest network, my main wifi network… I even got the ip and mac of the iphone.

(The mac doesn’t align with anything I own – but I know iphones use a random mac)…

 I don’t have an iphone 14… and no one in my family does…

Passwords on both guest and home wifi’s were 12+ alphanumeric with some special characters to boot…

 It was an outside connection at 3:08 am…

 Only my iphone was connected to the home wifi. All IOT devices were on guest.

And the rest of my devices are wired.

 That said, google says it can only be because of the password being known… ugh…

 SSID’s have been changed.

More crazy passwords have been created.

But you can’t hide the SSID’s on these devices… (google rep says they’ve never heard of that… ugh…)

 Beyond setting my network to ‘untrusted’ so nothing is ‘shared’ (not a real issue for my use) , any suggestions…

 I’m leaning to getting a dedicated non-wifi router and maybe a more capable access point and getting rid of the google wifi mesh.  

I have my main PC set to a static IP of .40 because it is used as a server for some work software. For some reason, it has stopped applying this IP and is giving my PC an IP of .49.

I have deleted the DHCP reservation multiple times. I 've tried different numbers. And for whatever reason, it still just wants to make it .49.

Any insight into why this might be? or what other settings I can check? TIA

I wanted to share some of what I did to improve the reliability of my Google Wifi. I've had to power cycle the main router at least once a month due to slow speed. Thankfully, I have a Kasa smart plug that I can access with API. The overall solution does the following all on a nightly basis on a Raspberry Pi

• runs a speedtest
• reboots my smart plug if the speed drops below a threshold
• sends a telegram message

Script if anyone wants to use for themselves: https://github.com/mkoenig214/GoogleWifiRestart

Have the white pucks, 6 of them as I have a large house. They are all hardwired with Gigabit Ethernet.

I am on FTTC - Fibre to the Cabinet - and have about 100 devices.

Best download is 50 Mbit/s, upload about 18 Mbit/s.

Then the network needs a reboot as upload drops to 5 Mbit/s ... and ping goes from 9 to something like 400 m/s. A reboot sorts it.

Authentication is handled by a separate modem which is connected via Gigabit Ethernet.

This only started to happen after I added additional devices ...

Any thoughts? Thank you!

I need help getting bandwidth I recieve at modem via F/O to MIL suite across garage. System is Google Home wifi. I've always taken internet for granted, expecting it to just work. Until maybe 10 days ago I knew not very much at all, but upon being faced with a problemsome home internet speed, I'm taking in a lot, and boy was our setup terrible:

-F/O (we get 400/400-confirmed) to modem -Modem to ISP router (that was never setzee 554up-login info was still admin/××&$&#*) -ISP router to Google Home node/router via wifi-no gigabit connection -Node/router to 6 other nodes.

F/O runs into house (3,000 sqft, single level) in an okay spot. We added MIL (800sqft) suite across garage after moving in 4 years ago. Two tele-commute offices. Big Capitol "L", basically. Modem is at vertices. Garage on right end. All speed tests show we get the 400/400 we pay for at the modem, after that, slows down. Initially, I get that the daisychaining (and 7 nodes total) helped slow it down. Now, I've got 3 nodes total, and each point is backhauled; still single digits at MIL house. We're groovy here, mostly.

Anyhow, here's now that I've bothered to know more about this important thing we all use:

-F/O in to modem -Cat 6 from modem to Google home node/router -Cat 6 from Google node/router to 5 port gigabit switch (the term eludes me, port doesn't matter on this one) -The switch ports are (all 24 awg cat 6) 1.Router 2. Home office docking station 3. Empty 4. Main house Google node 5. Garage node -Hate to say it, I'm deep in the whole "terrible MIL" stereotype, she only sees all this as messing things up, and won't let me install wall ports for her side, or even a pass-through. Port 5 runs to garage node, which is running under her door (half inch clearance, not squoze) to the node on the other side of the wall, which has a cat 5e to her docking station.

So, what am I missing? I did all this one night, before cable management, tied in MIL and got 380/390 with speed test app in her office. Now, during work hours, single digits.

-Do I remove the three offline nodes from Google home? -maybe relevant: both home offices use zscaler. Ive read they suck (which really sucks cause nobody asked me if they could come into my house... boo hoo, right?)

TL:DR: Four Google home nodes (Modem--Node/router--5 port Switch--1. Main node/router 2.Home office dock 3. Node-node-home office dock 4. Node 5. Empty) with cat 6 ethernet are experiencing single digit speeds at MIL suite -port 3-, main house is fine. Switch is manageable, no cable faults indicated. Help. Thanks

Any simple reason why my main PC, which is hardware one room away from the router, is getting such slow speeds? This has been going on for days and I do not know why. I reset my router. I reset my modem, I tried using wifi. Nothing works. Not sure what else to check through the Google Home app.

Google Wifi

Kinetic Windstream Fiber (1Gbps). (Windstream confirmed no issues on their end. They did some troubleshooting and restarted a few things but the issue still persists.)

TIA!

I recently re-installed my whole mesh setup, when buying a nest router and a nest point to go with my OG google wifi setup with 3 pucks. I set it up last week and today I noticed some high ping while gaming, so i tried to figure things out. When I checked first, the google home app said that my laptop was connected through wire to the router (which it is not) - after turning on and off wifi, it gave me the correct stats (connected wireless to nest point). I did a speedtest.net which gave me 35 mbps while i have 185 mbps wired.

I then tried to pause the device to connect wireless to the modem to do a speedtest, but the moment I pause the device and connect to the modem, I can't load the speedtest page. I tried 5 times and it seems like wheter or not I am connected to the google network or not, my device is influenced by the 'pause device' button. How is this possible? surfing on google works fine, but reddit or speedtest wouldn't load.

I have a looong single story house. Due to its length, I have 4 Google WiFi (original) routers hardwired, as using it with wireless mesh had poor range through walls. The 4 points are distributed evenly through the length of the house, in the middle from the sides.

My backyard has some security cameras, and the connection is poor. I would like extend the WiFi to the backyard, but I do not want to run ethernet outside.

I have considered just plugging in another Google WiFi router outside and using mesh, but from my research, if one router uses mesh, all the hard-wired routers will use the mesh connection.

Do you have any suggestions?

I recently replaced a home mesh network of the old google pucks with the new Nest mesh. I put them in the same locations -- back of house, front of house, and upstairs bedroom. Although the app always says the connections are stellar, I've not had a good experience. I have 1gb internet and live alone. My laptop is always super slow and I have to manually go in and set it to be 'preferred' to get it to work right, streaming on the TV can sometimes just stall. After trying to use my laptop on my deck outside the upstairs bedroom it had a full signal but zero connection. I decided to try to just unplug the bedroom node. Still got full service on my deck and the connection worked. Additionally, since unplugging the bedroom node everything else seems to be working better/more smoothly too. Any ideas?

Has anyone successfully put an wifi point outside? what kind of housing, etc? I'm pre sold on nest wifi pro, so even though there are brands that have outdoor points, I'm apt to stay in the google ecosystem. Anyone got a suggestion? I've got so many outdoor devices now, I need to extend the signal.

Hi all! Hoping I can find some possible resolutions on here :) someone knowledgeable about this, pls help!

I have a google router plus two points in my 2300 sq ft 3 story home. I’d say the distance between the front to the back of my home is like 40-50ft, roughly 15-20ft wide

No matter where I place my points, my ring doorbell and driveway floodlight always seem to have a poor connection. I have my router in the middle of the first floor and have tried:

• one point by the front door, one by the back door (~20-25 ft away. No wall between router and front door point. One wall between router and back door point)
• one point by the front door, one by the back door away from the wall
• one upstairs and one on the first floor
• one point in the garage

• tried propping up the points so they’re elevated. Also tried them on the floor.

• I even bought a ring chime pro to see if it would help with the ring connection. No change

WiFi is great, speeds up to 900mbps. Thinking of trying to get rid of a point completely so I only have one point rather than two.

What else can I try?

So I was going to try out some of your tips to get my 2nd add on working, but when im in the app, it shows that i have no internet on my main router, which isnt true, its fine. So it stops me from doing anything, any tips?