Google Nest WiFi Pro - 6E - Reliable Wi-Fi System with Fast Speed and Whole Home Coverage - Mesh Wi-Fi Router - 3 Pack - Snow, Linen, Fog

The only reason why I am upgrading is because my IPS gave me deal for 1 GBs. I had 200 MBs and that was more than enough for me. I had Google Wifi (gen1) for about 5 years. No problems except I had to buy extra pod to strengthen the signal (i live in condo and i have brick walls). So the signal from my balcony room (storage with concrete walls) was poor to my office. I bought nest wifi and everything was working good (connection was great / good) between nest wifi (router gen2) to 2 google wifi (gen1). I notice that after I got 1 GBs from ISP my speed was still the same 100 MBs on wifi. When I disconnected gen 1s (routers) my speed next to router (testing on iphone 14pro) was 560 MBs. If I would probably just switch my old 2 google wifi (gen 1) to Nest Wifi (gen2) I would be just fine. But since I live in condo I was like let me try that new 6Ghz. So I bought Nest Wifi Pro 3pk. Signal between 3 of them is great. If I would just use 2 it would be “Good signal”. I live in 1500 sqft apt, but my main router is basically in concrete storage (maybe I will drill a whole and put that router inside apt and give update). Speed next to Nest Wifi pro (gen3) router seems to be the same as Nest Wifi (gen2) what I am trying to say is I wouldn’t upgrade if all my previous pods were Nest Wifi (gen2). I wouldn’t expect more than 600 MBs on this routers based on my research online. What I like about google is steady speed, and they are upgrading software for this Nest Wifi Pro (so in future it will get better) Wifi speeds: Shed 500-600 MBs download / 22 MBs upload wifi speed Workout Room about 300 MBs Office 150-300 MBs Overall I don’t play a lot of games. Tried for CS 2 and ping was good, no lags in game. Streaming videos for 6hrs no buffering problems. Overall: If are upgrading from Google Wifi yea thats upgrade. I would not suggest upgrading Nest Wifi (only if you experience network problems or want to see if wifi will be stronger but I don’t see this wifi hitting more than 600 Mbs). Who needs more than 1 GBs internet. Design: I don’t really care about it but looks like nice stone (gen3). If its goes about power connector I am not a fan of it. Gen 1 had better in my opinion because if you connect to multiple plug connector it easy. Missing: Nest WiFi pro use 1 GBs Ethernet/WAN speed (that wire entry) while competition use 2.5 GBs Ethernet/WAN speed. On the other hand who use Ethernet anymore? Gaming desktops and maybe playstation. But going forward I believe it will be all Wifi at some point. Signal: Seems to be better than Google WiFi (gen 1 and gen 2) Software: I had recently update on this which means google is working on this router. Maybe It will get better in future. Installation: Very easy on Google Home app. If you use the same wifi password and name, all your devices will connect automatically. However 3rd took me about 5 tries but finally was added. Price: Very Good compare to others. If you need 4pk see costco. Update from 14 January 2024: I found that moving modem and router from my storage/heating closet to open (without obstruction of concrete/brick walls) inside apartment made increased speed of 400-600 Mbps per second. The farther away pod goes 400+ Mbps. (On 1gb internet for comcast) I don’t see any issues with this system. I changed my 4 starts to 5 stars.

Bought this when it first became available. Just received this afternoon 11/4. Tried setting up but both access points would not connect. Spent 1 hour on the phone with support and they finally said to me ‘they’ll kick this up to a senior engineer but, if I can I should return it to Amazon as it appears defective’. So I’m returning it after spending 2+ hours trying to setup and on the phone with support. Just to give background I am very familiar with google products as I have the original google wifi. Worked flawlessly till they passed a firmware upgrade on this past summer. Since then have had to restart all the routers once a week. The next one I order better work. Will update once I get and successfully setup. Update 11/26 - got the system to work by hooking each wifi point up to the router with internet first. That allowed each wifi point to load whatever updated software it needed as well as connect to the system. I was then able to disconnect each point from the routers internet via Ethernet cord move it to where I wanted it and then it reconnected to the main router. The system now works perfectly and is super fast! Love it!!! But, can’t say the same for google support. They should know how to make the system work and be able to troubleshoot it if someone calls, like me, and the fact that they weren’t able to is not goog sneed for me or anyone in the future if something happens. Now that this works I can recommend it and say it’s fairly simple to setup. Just connect each point to the router when initially setting up so they can each get setup. Hope this helps everyone!

Utter crap. First, I have an old 3 story house with lathe and plaster walls. I had an Orbi system with 5 satellites that worked really well once it was set up (a whole other story). My router died and the series was discontinued. I thought (stupidly) that i would migrate my entire EIFI mesh to Google as I like thier app and interface (versus Orbi's which is garbage). So, I invest in 3 of these nest wifi Pro's. Install went great, they talk to each other, ok. They are supposed to cover 2200sq ft. Now, we all know that is with a million caveats to cover thier rear ends, but I figurede I would get 50% of that, so I should be pushing 3300ft sq. Sure. So, I figured that I had 5 Orbi's, so 6 Nests seems reasonable. So, I buy 3 MORE! for a total of 6. That should be 6600 sq ft. (2200/2 * 6) right? Coverage is ok, but still a bit laggy. So I double down. If 6 is good, 9 is better!!! I should be covering the entire block! Man, I get great signal everywhere. But it is so freaking laggy that is darn near useless. The little google app says "you have great signals", and yet everything stalls, trouble connecting, torubvle stayiing connected. Im sure I have some interferences someplace, but man this is crap. My Orbi systrem, once set up, was an absolute champ. This system, well I have 9 pods for sale!

In 2020 had our household number of devices skyrocket due to laptops, pads, smart tvs, and got a TPLINK high end, multi-band (3) wifi system...and had routine troubles with wifi crapping out, not reaching around the house, rolling restarts of every device, just a general pain. Finally the WIFI just stopped altogether after 2.5 yrs, and it was time for something else. This system is AMAZING - lots of dinged reviews are for compatibility with older systems, hodge-podge setups - maybe that's a problem, but for us it was perfect. I LOVE the REDUNDANCY built into the system: Got the three pack, one for each floor. If any of the units bites the dust, I can physically connect ANY of the three to the ISP line and it becomes the main node, and my house can survive on two (probably even one). Bought three as it was much cheaper per unit (130/each vs 180 each alone). I was worried during the setup that it said that they should not be placed more than "2 rooms" apart, but had no problems putting one per floor, opposite ends of the house. My worst node is "good" vs "great". Setup took a little while to find the internet, just let my phone do it's thing for 5minutes and it was done. Each unit took another 5 or so, so in <20 minutes, the whole house was covered! The WIFI is AMAZING - even though I had a "high end" system from 2.5 yrs ago, they've improved the signal, so now we get WiFi6 throughout not just our whole house....but our entire property as well. No more cutting out in the driveway or garden! Got to take down our extender, which caused problems because of the different network name - now just one name EVERYWHERE. Folks have complained that there weren't multiple Ethernet jacks per unit (lists two, but one is in, one is out), but if you can get cheap ethernet splitters to go off of that if needed. So for us, absolutely perfect! Only ding would be the price ...an unexpected $400 to keep the house going, but could have probably made it work with fewer units, and I'm cheap, so anything would have been too much.

UPDATED after software fix 1.63.324946: Google customer service responds well to issues. Nest WiFi Pro 6E seems to work differently than my older mesh system and, although the speed and connection to my 2 wifi 6e devices was not what I expected to see, Google quickly opened a ticket and listened to customer concerns and issued an update. Speed tests seem erratic since it appears that this system allocates to different devices as needed. It seems as though it drops the speed (not the connection) when a device is idle to allocate the bandwidth to the ones currently in use. I’ve noticed that when I first log on to a pc, a speedtest may show a low reading but running it again after a couple of minutes of use shows the speed dramatically increased. My expectations for how this system worked were based on how my older system worked and I realized that being an early adopter of this new technology may mean encountering a few speed bumps. Google Nest, as well as my internet provider, will hopefully continue to make this system even better. As of now, all of my devices stay consistently online which was a big reason for my decision to upgrade. The 2 wifi 6e devices are the only ones that I think still need improvement and that may require better range for that band. Original Review: Google Nest WiFi Pro, Wi-Fi 6E, Reliable Home Wi-Fi System is what I got to replace the Google Nest three pack that I got six years ago and that has worked problem free the entire time. Three years ago I got the newer marshmallow shaped Google Nest router to replace the OnHub that was working with the three points and I really loved how well everything worked seamlessly. However, I have a smart home with a lot of devices in every room of a 3700 sq ft home as well as in the garage and front and back yard. I also have a Wifi 6e phone and Xfinity’s 1.2gb plan so I wanted to upgrade to something that would work more effectively with future devices. I am using the Xfinity XB8 combination modem and router device but I am using it only as a modem in bridge mode since it is not as efficient a router as this Google mesh system. The XB8 connected immediately with the Nest Wifi Pro and the combination works well. This upgrade only gives me three devices to replace the four from previous generations (router and three points) and I have these three in spots that I used before. The Google Home app mesh test shows great connection for all three. While I got this in anticipation of getting more Wifi 6E devices, the one thing that I have noticed is how much faster my smart home devices respond. Most of my other devices are also faster and I expect that will only increase as I upgrade them to Wifi6E as well as when Google Nest applies software upgrades which it does so well behind the scenes. The only possible negative that I can see is that the ethernet ports are only 1 gigabyte. This is not a problem for me at this time since multi-gigabyte tiers are not yet available in my area. I also rarely connect anything with ethernet since Wifi works so well. This upgrade works the same as previous generations with the Google Home app which allows very good control of the devices in one’s network. I am pleased with this upgrade and expect it to work as flawlessly as the previous generations have for the last six years, unless technology speeds up improvements before then and internet providers expand their tier. In that case, I will upgrade again with Google Nest Mesh since I like to stay with what works problem free for me.

Functionally for a used - like new product, it was obvious that the item had been opened before, but functionally it still works like new. The look is clean and simple, and doesn't feel like a hardcore gamer router like some of the other options. It's small enough to fit on shelves or hide behind other items without blocking the full view, but it looks good enough to just have sitting on a table if needed. Overall I haven't noticed any issues with connectivity and a definitive upgrade to the connectivity over a good distance from the previous nest models that I was using. A super easy unpack and setup overall - simply unbox, hook up, scan the QR code, and the google home app does the rest. If you're already in an android household and have google home, it's easier than you can image. I bought this as a supplement to a two pack that I got just a week before, and for a two story house that's roughly 2500sq feet, it seems three is ideal. Just one by itself covered the living room, kitchen, and dining room with ease. With all three the coverage seems to extend beyond just the entire house, but also decently out into the back yard and the end of the driveway. I'm happy with the range that these can provide for simple routers.

I jumped on the sale Google was having for the 3 pack to upgrade from my original Google WiFi, and decided to stay with this mesh system over others based on another review that mentioned if you use the same WiFi name and password in the setup process, then you won’t have to go in and update your devices, which ended up being true. I’m giving 5 stars but with the caveat that it was not a seamless installation experience, but I basically ignored the error messages and kept pushing through until I eventually got it set up. So I would rate ease of setup at 3 stars because of that. It probably took around 20 minutes total. Now for the good part! It’s awesome! The wifi performance and connectivity is so much better. We have a small concrete block house with a screened-in porch that we love to hang out in to watch TV and surf on our iPads. With the old system, we couldn’t both be on our iPads on the porch, and especially if we were watching TV. Now, we can run iPads with the internet TV going. So nice! The first couple of mesh network tests gave a weak signal to the porch, and I thought I would just have to live with it. But I relocated the point and ran another test and it ended up being the perfect location. I’m doing everything they say not to do as far as the setup. I have my modem and router in a cabinet, that’s next to a refrigerator. The points aren’t really in line of sight from each other, but the system is working fine, and actually really fast! Overall I’d recommend, especially if you’re going from Google WiFi mesh to Google Pro.

Our 5 year old Netgear Orbi started acting up so I gave this Google WiFi router a try. I had read reviews about it before but was never a fan due to the limited ethernet ports and non existent USB port. I also thought it was over priced. Over the last year I've added a few Google Nest cameras and figured now was the time to round out the Google ecosystem.. While set up was super easy with the Google Home app (I had already been using it for a while), the internet speeds were not as fast as with our previous routers. (I had also briefly used Verizon's Fios router and extender but set up was difficult and their app horrible). I did enjoy using the app and was able to easily do a lot like set up parent controls, run speed tests, test the network, and see what devices were active. After several days of working fine, the router started randomly dropping the signal. Devices would lose connection but then reconnect within a few minutes. This went on several times over the course of 2 days. I reset it a few times and checked with our ISP, who indicated there were no outages. I ran to of all places...Google...and found several threads of people having the same issue. The common theme was Google was aware of the issue but refused to provide a fix. We recently increased our speed to a Gigabit and have a lot of wired and wireless devices. However, each router (we had the 2 pack) is supposed to be able to support up to 100 devices. My guess is the router was either faulty or couldn't actually handle all the traffic. I'm not ruling out grabbing an updated version some day if and when our Netgear finally craps out (I got it back up and running). However, I didn't want to take a chance on this fairly expensive router after it exhibited problems barely a week into using it.