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https://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/networking/wifi-rout... works like a charm
Has yours gotten out of it's cage and made an attempt to escape through the window yet?
should i be worried?
Google Announces Nest WiFi
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Re: Google Announces Nest WiFi
#92I got a single Google WiFi router (home is small enough to not need the mesh) last year to pretty terrible results. I mainly got it for more frequent firmware updates, and easy administration via their phone app (easier to use then my Netgear Nighthawk; i.e. can show my wife how to use it). Everything worked great with it for the first few months, but then I started getting severe speed drops - specifically I was see…
I have Google Wifi and its mostly been great.
I don't think it makes sense if you don't need mesh; the whole point of the thing really is that it is the easiest way to set up a home mesh network (or maybe it isn't, but in the research I did before buying it, it seemed to be the most popular and recommended, which is why I got it even though I was skeptical of buying wifi from google).
I've seen speed drop offs twice in about a year of using it, which is my only problem with it. In both cases they were related to mesh: if located in the room with the main router, I'd still get 100+MBps, but when I was in range of the other AP's, it dropped to ~3MBps and the app was reported the mesh connectivity was poor where it is usually "great". In both cases, I rebooted the AP's (via the app) and it instantly fixed it.
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#93All the new products use barrel jack for power which is a step backward form USB-C or even from USB MiniB (Home Mini).
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#94"The Nest Wifi point also has a speaker with the Google Assistant" Ahh. I see.
What are you suggesting exactly? Presumably the buyers are happy to have a product with the described features, which include "Google Assistant", which answers to your voice.
Right, this is specifically for people who have both Home and Wifi and want to merge the two into a single device.
I'm pretty sure if you're paranoid about Google, you'd also not want them to control your wifi anyways.
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#95I don't really have a lot of trust with Google to deliver a great consumer product in this area. I switched from Alexa to Google Home and just because I'm a GSuite customer, I have lost the ability to access my calendar or set reminders. It's like they just wanted to tick a few boxes to show a cool concept, then forgot to make a well rounded product out of it.
Using GSuite accounts for their consumer product is always really consistent. Consistently bad...
That's GSuite is at the core a product for enterprise/education, and also has much stricter data policies. Unfortunately, a lot of people use it to turn their domain name into a Gmail inbox. Google should really spin that into a separate product.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you suggesting exactly? Presumably the buyers are happy to have a product with the described features, which include "Google Assistant", which answers to your voice.
Right, this is specifically for people who have both Home and Wifi and want to merge the two into a single device. I'm pretty sure if you're paranoid about Google, you'd also not want them to control your wifi anyways.
Curious what the default DNS is for Google WiFi devices.
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#97Does it mean when Google bans your account, you will lose your wifi as well?
Or if they decide that they don't recognize you anymore that you're forever locked out of your account?
Like God forbid you lose your password and their AI refuses to authenticate you. The Google borg-like organization seems to lack any semblance of humanity.
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Speaker is the standard term. Amazon describes the Echo Dot as a "Smart speaker with Alexa". And this is how Apple describes the HomePod: "HomePod is a breakthrough speaker that adapts to its location and delivers high-fidelity audio wherever it’s playing. Together with Apple Music and Siri, it creates an entirely new way for you to discover and interact with music at home. And it can help you and your whole family w…
Three wrongs do not make a right.
Just need another two-hundred and fifty three wrongs...
Re: Google Announces Nest WiFi
#99I got a single Google WiFi router (home is small enough to not need the mesh) last year to pretty terrible results. I mainly got it for more frequent firmware updates, and easy administration via their phone app (easier to use then my Netgear Nighthawk; i.e. can show my wife how to use it). Everything worked great with it for the first few months, but then I started getting severe speed drops - specifically I was see…
Ya know, I'm literally experiencing this right now and It's befuddling. For the past week or so, I've been using fast.com and only from my Macbook Pro do I see the speed drop. My phone on wifi only will maintain 200Mbps++ I'm really mad because it's been seamless until now.
I only tested it on a few devices, but I saw the speed drop on my PC, work laptop(a dell), two iPhones, and a PS4. Only device that I couldn't get to drop speed was my iPad. I literally spent multiple evenings for 2-3 weeks running as many tests as I could and was never able to pinpoint it to anything specific.
During my tests, I found a few reddit posts of people experiencing a similar issue. A few people were linking the issue to a firmware update around November/December of 2018, but I couldn't verify since I bought by Wifi device around February of 2019.
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#100"The Nest Wifi point also has a speaker with the Google Assistant" Ahh. I see.
I thought it was funny they said "has a speaker with the Google Assistant" rather than "has a microphone listening to you for Google Assistant"
One presumably pays money for a device with Google's name on it through which all of your network traffic flows, and you're worried about a microphone?
(I well and fully get your point, I'm just amused that, in the bigger scheme of things, a microphone is the problem here.)