Google Nest Wi-Fi review (2nd gen)

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One of the biggest complaints about making our homes smarter is the need for faster and better Wi-Fi. After all, if you're streaming TV, running lights, connected appliances, tablets, smartphones, computers and a host of other accessories, your Wi-Fi is bound to get bogged down. Not to mention getting decent coverage across the whole house can be a challenge. Making Wi-Fi better has often involved getting a new router, buying signal boosters, or chasing a signal by moving around the house. Mesh Wi-Fi emerged a few years ago to help improve speed and coverage and today the second incarnation of Google Wi-Fi, now called Google Nest Wi-Fi has taken the mesh concept and made some improvements. I had a chance to have a Nest Wi-Fi kit in my home for a couple of months and I’ll tell you whether it changed things for me.
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What is Google Nest WiFi?
Nest Wi-Fi is a mesh Wi-Fi system consisting of one main Router pod and additional (and expandable) Points. It connects to your home's modem or modem-router unit (also called a gateway) and spreads your Wi-Fi signal across the home (or business). Mesh Wi-Fi creates multiple connection points across your space so you don’t get dead spots.

This allows you to have multiple sources of powerful Wi-Fi throughout your home, instead of just a single router.

The newer generation 2 version of Google Nest Wi-Fi also converts the wifi pods into Google Smart speakers too, meaning you can listen to music, or talk to the Google Assistant for help.

One Nest Wifi router with one Wifi point is strong enough to handle up to 200 connected devices and fast enough to stream multiple 4K videos at a time and Nest Wifi router and Point are backwards compatible so they work with previous generation Google Wifi.

Having Google Wi-fi gives you a lot more than just connections.
There’s a feature called Priority Device.
This feature is so important to those of us working from home now. Using Google’s Wi-Fi app, the Priority Device setting allows you to prioritize Wi-Fi traffic to a specific phone, tablet, computer or device. This works great in a house with several family members where everyone is often online at once. By prioritizing mom or dad's phone or laptop, the kids can keep using the Wi-Fi, but the majority of data will go to the person that really needs it. I instructions on how to use this ate at TGC.com

Family Wi-Fi setting allows administrators of the account, most likely parents, to control exactly who gets Wi-Fi time and when. Using this setting, you can schedule pauses in Internet use during homework time, dinner hours, or at bedtime. There's no fighting over devices, or negotiating “just 10 more minutes”. You schedule the Wi-Fi to shut down, and it shuts down.

This setting also allows you to select specific devices and alter the times of use for those devices; your younger child’s tablet can shut down at seven, while the older children can keep on surfing until nine.

All of the settings and features are very easily controlled and adjusted in the Google Wi-Fi app or the Google Home app.

Google says it’s not getting any additional info from you by running your Wi-Fi.

Overall I had a great experience with Google Wi-Fi. It improved my connection speeds, it was very easy to set up and manage and changing settings or adjusting the network for kids or guests was ultra easy.

Google Wi-Fi is sold in a few different kits now: One router, which will cover up to 2200 square feet is $229. One router and one point covering up to 3800 square feet is now $299 (regular $349) and One router and two points to cover up to 5400 square feet is $459CAD.

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