Have had absolutely years of shoddy wifi coverage in my 3 bed house and tried all sorts - various routers, homeplugs, extenders and so on with no decent coverage ever attained.
We subscribe to Virginmedia 300Mbps and have never got anywhere near decent speeds unless something was plugged directly into the homehub which is no good for anywhere else in the house.
I was toying with the idea of cabling the house up with ethernet cable retrospectively but the cost and upheaval has put me off for some years.
I did read something about 'mesh network' systems some time ago but the cost of that was also prohibitive at the time but thought to check on prices in the future.
And here we are!
Tried to keep up with what was on offer every now and then and one day these popped up on a lightning deal, the same day that one of my wifi extenders gave up the ghost.
Ordered the pack of 2 as with the deal price it would be cheaper to add a third at a later date than buy the pack of 3. I wasn't sure if the 2 would be enough for the size of my house.
Next day I set them up, disabled the wifi of my Virginmedia homehub and put it into router mode, plugged in the Google wifi hubs, all told, everything was up and running within 30 minutes.
Fantastic! Great wifi everywhere in the house, upstairs and downstairs, the external cctv, wifi to exterior lighting controller which is 100ft down the garden from the opposite end of the house to the homehub.
Fast HD movie streaming via wifi - I have plugged in an 8 port network switch to the 2nd Google hub but the wifi to my devices is just as fast so not really using that.
This is with just the pack of 2 so I'll have no need of another.
Had it set up for over a month but thought I'd wait before adding a review in case of problems but there has been no problem with any device and connections have been rock solid.
The app is very intuitive and automatically checks on your connections every day or so and adapts itself to give you the best throughput, also has plenty of information regarding how much data each device has used / is using.
Brilliant bit of kit and only wish that this was available at this price point years ago!
| Wireless Type | 5 GHz Radio Frequency, 2.4 GHz Radio Frequency |
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