• Reviews around wire (1.34 of 5)

    Google WiFi system, 3-Pack - Router replacement for whole home coverage (NLS-1304-25)

    • I have the main one (connected to the hard wire) in my corner basement office, the second in the middle of my main floor, and the third on the far side of my house on the main floor
    • Since I had one device that needed to be hard-wired into my network, I kept my Cisco router in place and fed the primary wifi point from one of my router's output ports (ethernet cable).
    • My only complaint is I've tried using hard-wired Gigabit Ethernet for the back-haul instead of WiFi and so far I've only gotten worse speeds even though the same jack and cable to my laptop gives MUCH higher speeds, so I know it's not a wiring issue.
    • After trying hard wired and other WiFi extenders I which I would have known about this product from google sooner!
    • ... range) which will not communicate with items hard-wired via my Comcast gateway router (which issues IP addresses starting with 10.0...).
    • The wired connections for my main AV system are hard wired through a network switch.
    • Will purchase more for our basement hard wiring one
    • I replaced a Lynksys router with these and my internet, both WiFi and hard wired are like night and day
    • Next to the modem/router we have a 16 port Netgear switch as we have devices in the house that need to be hard-wired to the network
    • (All have a port to hard wire if needed.
    • We added the second Mesh point easily, it was not hard-wired to the network, it was just feeding off the WiFi from the first unit
    • I debated on buying this vs. other brands vs. hard wiring vs. more extenders for weeks - glad I pulled the trigger.
    • I like it and it is good for someone who just want to plug wires for it to work and don't have time for techy figuration
    • I had my WiFi network online and my AppleTV hard wired into the router and my other devices online as well
    • I could not get my network wired as it would have been too much work running wires thru three floors
    • Had to hard wire laptop
    • Now I have it hard wired to one of the
    • The middle one is still the hard-wired point to the modem but placing them on either end of the house has really improved streaming in the house as a whole.
    • Was able to set up wirelessly and then connect the units through my hard wire network
    • great.(My previous setup was three hard-wired routers located in similar locations.
    • No wireless dropped conection issues wired/wireless between devices
    • it has to have a hard wire
    • Could not get it to work and was on the phone with Tech Support for 1.5 hours to do "work-arounds" requiring hard wiring with Ethernet to get it set up.
    • Hard wiring the whole house with access points wasn't an option
    • We also have hard-wire ethernet devices, so connected a switch downstream from the primary access point for all of those.
    • While I though ahead and have a conduit with Ethernet connected from the hub to a switch, I can definitely see the need of using one of these secondary units for hard wired connections
    • Each of the WiFi mesh points were hard wired into an Ethernet switch.
    • wiring is messy and visually unpleasant
    • Understandly WiFi use will be lower than anything hard wired but when we’re paying for 100 mbs you expect at least half of that with WiFi if you are within a reasonable proximity to the router, nope, there were times we clocked our speeds as low as 5-10 mbs
    • My house has a complex partly Cat6 wired system and for that they are only just OK
    • I had a device hard-wired into my old router (needed two ports) and now I cannot do that.
    • right now, only our Google Hub is hard wired
    • i used to have to use multiple routers that were hard wired
    • It didn't tell us if the Mesh point was hard wired or only using WiFi
    • Setup was simple and there is one wired port available on each unit
    • Base unit hard wired to router and 2nd unit went as advertised but couldn't get 3rd
    • Replacing old router required me to continue to have a switch for wired devices like the Sonos,
    • The rubber of the ethernet cable ripped easily damaging the wire inside.
    • I’ve tried plug in repeaters and hard wired decontrol routers with no luck
    • Well if you have to set two of these just a bit too far apart, but you happen to have a hard wired connection, then they can pass off packets over the wire making the distance evaporate
    • There is little to no difference in WiFi to hard-wired connection on my ping and the router is across the room!Good, quick solution for quality WiFi
    • However, now my TV's wouldn't work consistently, even though wired via ethernet back to the primary puck and directly into the AT&T router as instructed
    • well I
    • it did not work as i though it would.
    • wifi worked better in a remote areaI cant say there is anything I don't like I about it
    • I'm not sure why this wifi stopped working as I