WiFi System

Early in my career I made sure I had ethernet ran to every room, had a PIX firewall in my basement, had a torrent server running, etc. Now? I just use Google Nest Wifi connected directly to the ONT and spread a few extra mesh units around the house. No need to make anything complex.

It’s very unclear what your problem is. The most important question: If you’re hardwired to your Ethernet jack (where the internet in the house comes in), is the internet reliable? If no, investigate different providers. Sonic or MonkeyBrains are probably the best in SF, if they’re available to you.

I have a TP/Link mesh system but they are now on the banned list. I'd recommend the Google Nest WiFi. You can get a three-pack for about $160. They have good instructions and support.

Ask Gemini. It’s Google AI that walked me through adding another Nest point. Better instructions than you get in the Home app. I’ve got seamless WiFi through my house and backyard now.

I'll try to explain it as simply as possible 👍 The box virgin gave you does both your internet connection (modem) and your wireless connection (router) They bog down when you start loading devices onto your network (the amount of things you have connected to the internet in your house), you would be

Thanks, yes, this seems to have been the issue. Taking the nest to a working (already activated) network allowed it to be added. Remains to be seen whether taking it back to the new connection will allow navigating to the Spectrum activation page. This strikes me as a kind of wild limitation, becaus

He is buying it for his parents. It's a cheap user friendly router. Google Nest wifi 6E was launched in 2022, and Google still supports the original older Google Wifi released in 2016, so there are many support years left for the 6E. It's half the cost used.

What is the current setup? Is it a 2 node mesh network, or more than 2 nodes? If it is just a 2 node network you could upgrade to a 3 node network and chain them so that the 3rd node gets a better signal by placing the 2nd node between the router and the ADU node. That being said, the 3 node google

I just plugged my old Google/Nest WiFi mesh set up back in, it’s only WiFi 5 but it works fine and I didn’t have to do any set up.

The only complaint I have in switching to Asus is that the mobile app to do device management isn't quite as clean, and I can't ask google home to do speed test 😄 Overall, the Nest WiFi was very set-it-and-forget it, which IMO is what an internet router should be.