You can look up and see endless problems with this. Googs doesn't know what to do.
Solving the Problem
1. First problems are that in a normal house, 3 are not enough. You push to the farthest range, and there are no utilities to tell you that it is too far.
2. Solve that problem by getting 3 more. Ha, that doesn't solve the problem! You still get endless little hitches, mainly with watching movies upstairs, and phone games. It wasn't until we had the Starlink at the cottage, with one tenth the speed, that we realized how smooth the games were.
3. You have to defrag and comb the mesh. You think that could be done automatically, but the googs labs must do this always in a rather anal way, that nobody else uses. This is done with a heck of a lot of work. First, factory reset everything. Then, they don't help you much. You have to squint with a flashlight to read the hex code for the device. Start with the main router, that is attached to your network.
4. It treats the first unit as 'special'. It wants to hook up directly with googs home, with it's own wifi for a minute or two. Then, it says, it looks like you have a 3-pack, and doesn't know you have a 6-pack. Do the other nearest two. This is fairly quick and doesn't do the 'local connection' thing.
5. Then pick the nearest unit of the next 3-pack. It will do the special thing again. And then the next two. Always keep a clean combing.
Then it works, smooth as a Texas wash channel. No complaints from the spoose. We'll check the movies over time. Before, I was constantly rebooting the network, and it didn't do anything.
Da Physics - They have a hidden assumption, based on their corporate culture of being anal. Hooking them up, willy-nilly creates loops and tangles in the mesh, where packets are slowed down. They have no concept, since none of them would do that horrible thing. They need a defrag utility, based on timing, and comb it automatically. I give them this idea for free, knowing that nobody reads me. Oh well, I try my best.
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