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However, as long as the new system is set up to use the same network name and shared password, your existing client devices should connect to the new system just fine.Whether you’re looking to improve your home’s Wi-Fi signal or just trying to squeeze a little better performance from your network for Google Stadia, a mesh system like Nest Wifi may be just what you’re looking for. Now, as to reset impacts, yes – you'd reset your existing system to replace it with a new Nest WiFi system. But, a different brand of WiFi system might (if it uses a different channel than Google/Nest WiFi uses). If this turns out to be the issue, and your ISP can't put you on a different channel, replacing your Google WiFi system with a Nest WiFi system won't solve the problem. So, before buying a Nest WiFi system (which will use the same 5GHz channel as your Google WiFi system does), can you ask your ISP exactly what frequency range their system uses? If you post that here, I can compare it with the frequencies Google and Nest WiFi use (I may need to know what part of the world you're in as well, since US units use a different channel than European units, for example).

I have run into other customers whose wireless ISP systems use the same part of the 5GHz band as Google/Nest WiFi, which causes significant interference in the local WiFi system. Hello wireless ISP is a red flag for me here, actually. The question is whether that would also work with a change from brand A Google-gen 1 to brand A Nest -gen 2. and did not have to make any changes to the downstream smart devices. In your case you, apparently, went from brand A router to brand B (Nest?) router. hence the need for a massive, 50 device, reinstall. That sounded like all downstream device settings would be lost.

#Apple airport extreme vs google wifi full#

I had read that the new router WOULD require a full reset of it and my other 3 gen #1 access point nodes. My only concern had been with having to reset the whole system and then, consequently, have to re-install 50 smart devices to be able to reconnect them to the new router. hence the thoughts about just swapping out the primary gen 1 router node for a gen 2 router node. I'm out of ideas that don't involve throwing it all away. I've even tried direct connecting a new Nighthawk sub-net router to the primary Google gen 1 router. I've tried direct ethernet connecting my laptop for critical high data streams needed for work. Well, with 4 nodes in place already I'm not about to start from scratch. Their conclusion is, 'It's the Google system'. Unfortunately as soon as they plug directly into my gen 1 Google WiFi router node (no WiFi involved) the speeds plummet to 25% and begin to fluctuate again. My ISP tech team has tried plugging their laptops directly into the on-site radio receiver (it's a wireless system) and received nice, fast, stable downloads.

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I'm one of those Google WiFi folks with wildly fluctuating download numbers and frequent disconnects.

As for the 'If it ain't broken don't fix it'. My point is, if it isn't broke, why 'fix' it? If you want to improve the performance of your existing system, you'd probably get more 'bang' by building an Ethernet network off of the primary unit's LAN Ethernet port and using it for as much as possible – including wiring up your secondary Google WiFi units so they can dedicate more 5GHz capacity to nearby clients. Meanwhile, the Nest WiFi Point units have a very similar WiFi radio as Google WiFi (2 streams), and are missing the Ethernet ports that Google WiFi has. The Nest WiFi Router unit itself has a 'better' WiFi radio than Google WiFi (4 streams instead of 2), but most clients can't take advantage of that extra capability (most can't do more than 2 streams anyway, though a few can do 3 – some can only do 1 stream). The only possible issue you may run into is if you have some devices that don't like WPA3, but hopefully those are rare, and if you do happen to run into one, you can disable WPA3 on the new system.Īll of that said, I'm curious why you'd invest in a Nest WiFi system when you have an existing Google WiFi system that is working well for you already.

I repeated this process at my parents' house last November.

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I just kept the same network name (SSID) and shared password when I set this system up a few years ago and all of my WiFi devices reconnected to it just fine. My current Google WiFi system started out life as an Apple Airport Extreme system.