Google Wifi - Nest Wifi Pro

"Also better WiFi, generally improved version, **very expensive**, don't know too much about them." **$250** for **Three** New *Nest WiFi Pro* (6E) .

Nest Pro WiFi is absolutely terrible. I fought with it for years handling a bunch of devices, matter products, etc. I gave up two months ago for Unify. Such a dramatic transformation after years of poor WiFi performance. There is no such thing as a “lemon” in this product category.

You should only get Nest Pro if you can hard wire the points into the network. I along with many others have had issues when using the points wirelessly. Hard wired the Nest Pro setup is great.

I dumped Google's Nest Pro for the TPlink BE95 and been great! Real wired backhaul, and wireless if you want. I think that you probably want a wired backend. Do you have coax cable in your home? You can link everything up with Docsis 2.5 GBps using those runs without having to run new wire. Alternately, you could look Ethernet over power. I think they have 2.5 Gbps for that too.

Idk but don’t get the nest WiFi pro. It drops out constantly and you can’t force 2.4ghz to setup smart home products. The WiFi provided by my isp router is more stable that the nest pro

How is the eero ecosystem, especially the app? I’ve been using the google WiFi pro and the app sucks. It’s so slow and unresponsive. I’m considering whether to sell it and get the eero WiFi 7 or 7 pro

Do move on from stock firmware that hasn't been updated in over 3 years. I recommend OpenWRT on it. Not easy, but for this subreddit's audience you'll be rewarded. It's been working fantastic. There are limitations mostly due to it's CPU. Quad core, but 700-800mhz so when using advanced QOS you're limited to \~250-400mbs. If you want to stay Google, Nest Pro 6E was on sale at Best Buy for $120 for a 3 pack used.

I have a decently large (newly built home) and a big backyard with pool and structure and needed wifi for outdoor TVs, Sonos, etc. It took me no joke SEVEN of the Google WiFi pro’s ALL HARDLINED back to the networking room switch to get coverage on our property. That’s about how good they work. If you can do a wired backhaul or whatever it’s called , you can get pretty good performance. I was going to switch to the higher orbi’s or EERO max 7s, but with those I was going to need 4. It was going to be too expensive to switch because I already had so much Google stuff. Additionally Google WiFi mesh has been notoriously bad with Sonos. It’s finally starting to work better. We would have rooms just disappear from the system despite the Google home app showing them connected to the internet.

They're good when they work but for some reason they just stop working and you have to factory reset all the time. It's quite a regular event

Hmmm fair. My experience with Unifi has been good (other than initial speed issues with IoT). What ive noticed is the wifi broadcast is fairly powerful, definitely more so compared with Nest wifi pro. I was running 2 nest wifi pros either end of the house. Ground and first floor. Ive now placed one UDR7 fairly central in the house and I great speeds in all rooms. That being said, if you have 3 points you should really wire the points together. I had lots of speed and stability issues at my parents who have a fairly "long" 3 story house with lots of walls. Depends on placement too, the main point was furthest, then another point to the middle, and the last point at the other end of the house. Nest is supposed to mesh to any point, but for some reason mines kept looking for the main point. Wired them up (nest to unmanaged switch, ethernet to each point) and that solved speed and stability issues. Major benefit is it doesn't need to use wireless backhaul (which research at the time suggested takes up a significant enough portion of bandwidth and processing power). Honestly, rather than buy a different system, I would put some effort in and wire the points. Once done, it will definitely be faster but you've also opened yourself up to lots of options (not just unifi kit, but also opportunity to wire more devices as you can place switches at the end of each run).