Google WiFi System, 1-Pack - Router Replacement for Whole Home Coverage - NLS-1304-25,white

Excellent product. Provides a strong Wi-F- signal throughout the my home, upstairs and downstairs. Just what I needed. Simple installation, worked the first time.

I initially wrote the review with a one star rating, noting what I though to be a serious glitch (see below). As an update, while continuing to troubleshoot the problem, one of the satellite pucks slipped into the poor category for reception. I moved this puck closer to the home unit, and voila, all the previous quirks seem to have disappeared (have been monitoring now for 24 hours). Diagnosis: Too many devices trying to draw off of a puck with only a poor to fair connection overloaded its capability. Overall report: Very satisfied - have had this installed now for a few months (I’m in South America, where my internet tends to be weak), and, except for the troubles I seem to have diagnosed and fixed, it’s performed quite well - and ALL of my walls are block and concrete. I’d recommend this system highly. Just make sure you’re not asking a marginally connected puck to do more than it’s capable of. Serious glitch. Mesh network disappears continuously, while the host network remains intact. When trying to log back on, the mesh network disappears, then reappears, then disappears again, then says “Incorrect Password” (I didn’t enter one), then says “Cannot Connect”. I’m tickled if the mesh stays up for more than 15 minutes at a time. Signal strength goes to two bars (of three, iOS) but my speed test out at 30/32 Mbps. Worked great for a month or so, then glitch city. I researched posts of similar problems which went back a year, with no solution, just “this question has been closed”, with no input from tech support.

That is a wanderful product. The connectivity is top!

Very great product. Love it a lot. Extends my WiFi throughout the entire house with no decrease in speed.

I have a 4000 sq ft house and some of my rooms have been dead zones. Not to mention, streaming Netflix and other sites were a total headache with constant pausing and lost connections. I bought these a few weeks before Christmas to see if it would solve my woes because one of my teens asked for a SmartTv and her room was one of the total dead zones in my house. I cant speak personally about the installation because my 17 year old son did the setup without any help so that must mean it was pretty easy. He is a gamer so he put one of the units in his room, one in my daughters room and one stayed next to the original router. Immediately everyone was happy and all connection problems were solved. My daughter, who used to max out her phones Hotspot minutes just to be able to get her computer on the internet, now runs her Smart TV everyday and has great wifi in her room that was once a total wifi no go. My son said that his gaming connection has less of a lag. I have since also gotten Roku on one tv and a Firestick on another and we stream everything from YouTube to Netflix with zero connection problems. Its been a month and we are thrilled. I hope that it continues but I will update my review if it suddenly stops being awesome!

Do not buy any of the Google Wi-Fi units if you have any form of high-speed internet. The units are limited to the amounts of speed and bandwidth that can go through them to the modem. These units also have to be connected directly to the incoming signal before going to any routers or switches. This greatly limits the bandwidth and the speed of your home network. have work with support multiple time and got nowhere. Additionally, all they ever say is that this must be connected directly to the incoming signal, and cannot be put before a router, or switch.

Awesome easy to set up. My Netflix and Amazon video shows stream in 4k with no buffering or freezing. Id totally recommend this product.

Purchased 2 of these to install as a mesh network and improve coverage within our house. Had no trouble installing them, and absolutely LOVE the app!

Works well. Easy to install. Only caution is, if setting up an Ethernet backhaul network and your house is wired with older CAT5E, it might not be sufficient to hit gigabit speeds on your switch on all nodes. Mine works fine with 3 of the 4 nodes, but the 4th is running at 10/100...could be a wiring issue or just b/c the run is a little bit longer than the others. In either case, if you have more than a tiny home / apartment, I strongly suggest setting up a bachhaul network. (The backhaul network operates over Ethernet and requires a simple $20 switch. It takes the traffic between the WiFi point and the modem off WiFi and makes your whole system hum faster.)

Keeping this short and sweet. Over time the performance of this mesh just drags further and further down. The security is extremely lacking. The mesh setup is nice and easy. The whole system is designed for those who are clueless about securing their personal data, protecting their home network, or those who just dont care if they broadcast their private and personal data to any and all. Google sniffs your personal data, requires you to dumb down your network and doesnt work well with smart devices or various phone apps. Performance is sluggish and the main pod just gets overworked. Update: the pause of internet is flaky and works 1 out of 4 times.