Over Christmas we had the California kids over, and they were constantly working, while we played with the grandson. We got the better deal, and if I ever had to work like that, I would have become lost to depression. We have no sunlight in Canada! Not fair!
Anyway, I have a new Nest wifi pro system with 3 units. They were complaining they couldn't do important video conferencing because of big dropouts. I looked it up, and found endless complaints, and Google seemed helpless.
What makes the nestmesh fantastic, is its undoing. The high-capacity wireless backhaul is a pansy with distance. They are saying 15 feet, but I'm saying one wall, and don't put it near the outside wall. It's high-frequency and does weird things.
This can be solved with ethernet cables for a wired backhaul, but you can't use the old cat5 shite I have in the house. You need cat6, or better, cat7 or 8. I did a test once on the different cables, and the difference is amazing.
Since new wiring is nearly impossible and expensive with the good stuff, I went for another set of 3 units. It has worked amazingly. On Ping Monitor on my phone, I went from about 75% to 91%. Before, we had lost packets and drop outs. Now, it is solid. I pulled some of the devices slightly away from the outside wall, and the quality went up. Can't always do that because side-tables and outlets are by walls.
ps. my homerun tv system was always dropping, now it is solid. I worked so hard on that issue, and it's all the same.
ps I ran the test beside the main router, connected by cat8 cable to the switch. It's the same.
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