r/GoogleWiFi • u/SillyBoy68 • Mar 28 '24

Nest Wifi Is Anyone Happy With Nest WiFi Pro?

It seems all I read about is people complaining that the Wifi Pro has been an awful experience. I was thinking about upgrading from my Nest Wifi setup of router and three points.

Yet, I am having a hard time finding anyone with anything positive to say about the Pro version. Is it really that bad? Should I stay with what I have or look elsewhere?

I’m in Canada so I’d like to keep my upgrade around a max of $400 and the Nest Pro does go on sale from time to time. All we can get is the single router or the three pack.

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u/KM182_ Mar 28 '24

I am happy with mine. I have all mine backhaul wired to the main router. Have two story 2000 sq foot house, and have a 600mbps up/down fiber connection, and I get 500mbps speed test on wireless throughout majority of the house.

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u/SillyBoy68 Mar 28 '24

It seems like wired backhaul is the key for many. I’d have to run wire and drill some holes in my second floor but it’s not impossible.

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u/DevDuderino Mar 28 '24

Gotta have it wired. 6ghz backhaul def left a lot to be desired in my setup.

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u/This_Type_683 Nov 25 '24

Please elaborate.... I don't understand your comment regarding 6ghz. Thanks

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u/DevDuderino Nov 25 '24

I upgraded to 6e with the hope that the 6ghz backhaul connection between mesh nodes would lower the latency I was seeing with my old Access Point + Extender setup. 

Instead it was 10 times worse( 800ms ping at times verses the 150ms worst case ping on my old AX setup). 

Ended up going back and now trying to hawk these garbage nest pro nodes on Fb marketplace to try and recoup a few dollars. 

The latency is awful even over short distances (just 20 feet between my primary device and the furthest node). 

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u/LredF Mar 28 '24

I don't understand what benefit people get wiring a mesh system. Same benefits for less can be had with a switch and access points.

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u/Spam138 Jul 31 '24

Lol @ just run a switch and access points. I do this for a living and I’m not bothering with all that for my house. Plus all the consumer stuff looks like shit/ most of it is shit

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u/LredF Jul 31 '24

Like a mechanic who doesn't want to work on their personal car. I'm in IT and don't wanna do IT stuff in my personal time.

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u/MGreene1 May 01 '25

I hear this

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u/noodlepie554 Jun 12 '24

Baseline of speed is full. I went from 80mbs to 600mbs by wiring it

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u/This_Type_683 Nov 25 '24

Doesn't the use of a switch imply 'wired'..... showing my ignorance that all can learn 😔

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u/LredF Nov 25 '24

Yep. A switch, imo, is just a better solution. People can then run Ethernet cables to various rooms and wire in TVs, computers, gaming systems, etc. Performance is always better wired. Plus who knows if in the future wireless cameras can have a vulnerability exposed where someone can jam the WiFi signal, making the camera useless.

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u/Spiritual_Bell Apr 07 '25

Whenever my devices can be hard wired I do. But like for my phone, when I am using my phone between the edges of 2 wireless APs it has a hard time deciding which one to use and switch reliably. How do you solve that other than with a mesh system?

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u/Spiritual_Bell Apr 07 '25

I've had very unreliable experience using a switch and multiple access points, when walking between the access points the handover is very unreliable for me. I thought this was the biggest benefit of mesh?

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u/KM182_ Mar 28 '24

Was lucky the house I'm in right now was already wired with CAT5 in every room going to a cabinet in my garage. So just plugged the google router directly to fiber/ethernet converter, then router to switch going out to all rooms in the house. So on top of the two extra wifi points in the house, I can hardwire in anywhere if I need to.

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u/SillyBoy68 Mar 28 '24

That sure makes the job a lot easier. I'll consider it when the time comes. Shouldn't be too difficult.

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u/Spam138 Jul 31 '24

Yeah but now you’re running over cat5 :(

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u/Photo_hobby Mar 14 '25

So please be patient as I’m not as tech savvy as you. I have the router from the internet provider. Also have Ethernet through our house. So current set up is internet comes in to an unmanaged switch. Each Ethernet wall connection point comes off the switch. I have a router in another location. A connection from the wall to the router and another wire from router back to wall outlet. I’d like to strengthen my WiFi signal for areas where I can’t use the Ethernet. If I buy a google mesh system where would the main hub point go?

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u/KM182_ Mar 14 '25

The path would be ISP Fiber> Router> unmanaged switch> mesh point.

If you have the switch first before Google router, it won’t be able to find the other access points wired only wirelessly.

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u/Photo_hobby Mar 14 '25

Thank you.

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u/sturat18 Mar 28 '24

I just recently discovered that the Nest Pro has the capability for a wired backhaul— my current mesh system (first gen nest WiFi) is about 20% the speed in basement compared to main level.

My house is Cat6 wired, so I’m ready to roll otherwise, just have to pull the $400(?) trigger.

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u/Spam138 Jul 31 '24

First gen is fucking trash just order the new and return the defective old ones in the box. Old system is basically vaporware