Description
This product includes three router units
Nest Wifi is a scalable and flexible Wi-Fi system These Nest Wifi devices work together to blanket your whole home in fast, reliable Wi-Fi and eliminate buffering in every room – with coverage up to 6600 square feet
One Wi-Fi router plugs into your internet provider’s modem to create your Wi-Fi network The other extends the wireless network and keeps your connection fast to devices in every room. For more coverage, add Nest Wifi routers or points to your system
Nest Wifi routers are strong enough to handle up to 200 connected devices, and fast enough to stream multiple 4K videos at a time. Compatible with Google Wifi; Ethernet ports included on each router 15W power adapter
Intelligently works behind the scenes to make sure your Wi-Fi remains fast.[3] Walk from room to room on a video call with an uninterrupted signal Nest Wifi automatically updates itself to get new features and help your network stay safe and sound
Nest Wifi is easy to set up in the app.[4] Easily create a guest network and share your password in just a few taps Decide which devices to prioritize for faster speeds and use parental controls to manage online time for the kids
Scott Walker –
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. One person found this helpful
Mommy Molly (verified owner) –
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. 19 people found this helpful
diamondlady (verified owner) –
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. 4 people found this helpful
bryan (verified owner) –
Works fine with my fibre 500mb. A small issue I had to deal with was interference with my Home Assistant on RaspberryPi using Zigbee2MQQT. There is no way to specify a Wi-Fi channel or to exclude one so in the end I had to change the channel on home assistant to 25.
J. C. Sams (verified owner) –
There is nothing to dislike apart from why didn’t I know about this router that connects to virgin 3 years ago! Easy for a 71year old to set up, put virgin router into modem mode, download google home app and follow instructions Easy . Went from (VM125 package) 12MB-21MB to 50MB-103MB using Google router. The reason the difference is as said before virgin cannot handle a lot of 2.4ghz sockets and lights as well as your usual tv,phones and laptops. The best £50 I’ve ever spent all my lights and sockets that are on smart devices NOW all switch off and on when they are supposed to especially when I leave/arrive home. One person found this helpful
MARY PAYNE (verified owner) –
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. 2 people found this helpful
Bob Raynor (verified owner) –
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 bandwidth One 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. 12 people found this helpful