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Using 4G router with Google Mesh

Killy — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:44:52 GMT

I have recently moved away fro from Virgin Media as I no longer wanted to be tied into an 18 month contract and needed a shorter term more flexible solution. I purchased a TP-Link 4G router (TL-MR6400) and an O2 unlimited data sim and connected these to my Google mesh network. When I connect to the wireless router directly I achieve speeds of ############ mbps but when connected to the Google network the speed drops to 5-6 mbps. What could account for this significant drop in performance? Are there any settings on the router or Google home I should change? Thanks K

Re: Using 4G router with Google Mesh

EdwardT — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:06:27 GMT

Hi Killy,

Thanks for reaching out. I'm sorry to hear that you're having an issue with the speed of your Google WiFi. If you haven't yet, you could click on this link for some troubleshooting steps that you could try to isolate the issue.

Thanks,

Edward

Re: Using 4G router with Google Mesh

EdwardT — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:16:36 GMT

Hi Killy,

It's me again, I wanted to check back in to see if you have other questions and concerns. Feel free to let me know if you do.

Thanks,

Edward

Re: Using 4G router with Google Mesh

Killy — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 18:38:39 GMT

Thanks Edward, I was concerned that my 4G router did not support bridge mode and maybe that was the issue. However having looked at other posts on the subject decided to take all Google Wi-Fi points and the Google router back to factory resets and rebuild the Google network. This seems to have resolved the issue. The speed achieved through the Google network is now consistent with the speed when directly connected to the 4G router. Time will tell but I can only assume the previous configuration when connected to the Virgin Media modem was causing the problem.

Many thanks

Kieran

Re: Using 4G router with Google Mesh

EdwardT — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:15:51 GMT

Hi Killy,

Awesome — glad to hear everything is back and working as intended. Please let us know if you have other questions and concerns. We're here to help.

Thanks,

Edward

Re: Using 4G router with Google Mesh

EdwardT — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:50:51 GMT

Hi Killy,

Just checking in to make sure that you saw our response. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns as I will be locking this in 24 hours.

Thanks,

Edward

Re: Using 4G router with Google Mesh

Jeff — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:50:57 GMT

Hi, everyone.
As we haven't had any activity here recently I'm going to go ahead and close the thread. If you have more to add, feel free to start a new discussion.
Thanks