topic Re: Wired wifi pro in Nest Wifi

Wired wifi pro

IdoBukspan — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:46:18 GMT

I bought 4 Pro devices.

I successfully connect one of them to be router.

I have a wired network at home with several switches.

I'm trying to wire connect the second pro to one of the switches.

During the setup it stack on setting the Netowork or something.

I waited several times for at least half an hour.

What I'm doing wrong??

It is very frustrating.

Thanks,

Ido

Re: Wired wifi pro

olavrb — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:17:16 GMT

What switches do you use? Brand and model. It should be unmanaged with no loop detection (like STP, spanning tree protocol). If managed, STP must be disabled and BPDU forwarding enabled.

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How have you wired it all up? Explain, or make a diagram. It should be like so:

Modem -> Main Nest Wifi unit -> Switch(es) -> Secondary Nest Wifi unit(s) and other devices.

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You can set up a secondary Nest Wifi unit wirelessly first, then move it and add an ethernet cable for wired backhaul later. Keep it close to the primary unit dueing setup, that can help.

Re: Wired wifi pro

IdoBukspan — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:29:02 GMT

Hi,

The set up is as you described.

I'm using Cisco switches which I believe are unmanaged as I don't have any way to log in.

Do you really think that if I will take the addinal pros next to the router and set them up and after that I will take them to other places as home and then connect them to the wire Eth it will works?

If yes, it can be a nice WA.

Re: Wired wifi pro

IdoBukspan — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:32:41 GMT

Yes I recheck.

The switches are unmanaged.

What bother me is that it is just stack, no error indication, nothing

Re: Wired wifi pro

olavrb — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 08:22:56 GMT

Yes, that's a known working workaround. Set them up close to primary, let them update firmware and reboot, move afterwards. They can be added and removed from wired backhaul at any later time once they're set up.

There exists unmanaged switches with loop detection/prevention, so please check the spec sheet of those Cisco switches just in case.

Re: Wired wifi pro

IdoBukspan — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:09:55 GMT

Assuming there is a loop detection, will the WA still works?

Re: Wired wifi pro

IdoBukspan — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:15:52 GMT

So the WA should work in any case?

Re: Wired wifi pro

olavrb — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 20:53:33 GMT

No, wired backhaul won't work if switch(es) has loop detection.

Re: Wired wifi pro

IdoBukspan — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:19:12 GMT

I left with the wireless, the wired option does not work unlike Netgear which works immediately.

Google, you need to fix it.

You can't expect that your customers will be IT managers, it should just works!.