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Degraded internet speed performance just by one wall in the middle

agustinsivoplas
Community Member

I am trying to discover why the internet speed is degraded to half just by one wall. (Restarted the device multiple times)

Situation:

Doing a test speed close the the router (in the right part of the image) the internet speed is 750+ mbps (make sense with the ISP speed)

speed 750.jpeg

 

Doing a test speed in the chair (left part of the image) the internet speed is degraded by 370 mbps or less.

 

speed 370.jpeg

 

This is caused just by one wall in the middle?

 

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How is that possible? It's very disappointing because the distance between the chair and the router is 2 meters.

 

 

 

 

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MichaelP
Diamond Product Expert
Diamond Product Expert

Hello @agustinsivoplas 

If the wall is simple wood-framed hollow construction with sheet rock, it won't reduce signal strength by much. However, if it's solid (e.g., concrete or brick) or covered with plaster (especially plaster with metal lath), it will reduce signal strength significantly. Dealing with this can be challenging.

You may be able to get better performance by moving the primary into a more central location where it isn't having to send WiFi through that wall.

Other than that, running Ethernet between the rooms can at least provide wired devices in the other room with better performance (connect to the LAN port on the primary Nest WiFi Pro unit). In addition, once Ethernet has been run, another Nest WiFi Pro unit can be connected to that Ethernet (add an unmanaged switch to make more ports available). That allows it to provide WiFi to devices in that room, but carry their traffic back to the primary via Ethernet instead of trying to go through the problematic wall. 

If running Ethernet is not an option, then you might be able to add one more Nest WiFi Pro unit as a secondary. This will only help if it can be placed in a spot where it has line-of-sight to the primary and through that door into the other room.

Basically, with all of these solutions, we're trying to avoid trying to push WiFi signals through a wall that is (apparently) attenuating them substantially.

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MichaelP
Diamond Product Expert
Diamond Product Expert

Hello @agustinsivoplas 

If the wall is simple wood-framed hollow construction with sheet rock, it won't reduce signal strength by much. However, if it's solid (e.g., concrete or brick) or covered with plaster (especially plaster with metal lath), it will reduce signal strength significantly. Dealing with this can be challenging.

You may be able to get better performance by moving the primary into a more central location where it isn't having to send WiFi through that wall.

Other than that, running Ethernet between the rooms can at least provide wired devices in the other room with better performance (connect to the LAN port on the primary Nest WiFi Pro unit). In addition, once Ethernet has been run, another Nest WiFi Pro unit can be connected to that Ethernet (add an unmanaged switch to make more ports available). That allows it to provide WiFi to devices in that room, but carry their traffic back to the primary via Ethernet instead of trying to go through the problematic wall. 

If running Ethernet is not an option, then you might be able to add one more Nest WiFi Pro unit as a secondary. This will only help if it can be placed in a spot where it has line-of-sight to the primary and through that door into the other room.

Basically, with all of these solutions, we're trying to avoid trying to push WiFi signals through a wall that is (apparently) attenuating them substantially.

Thanks for the answer and the workarounds. I had a TP-Link and didn't experienced this issues. But I am still surprised about how bad is this product. Is a brick wall, and only one wall, we are talking about 2 meters of distance, I can understand if the distance was 20-30 meters. I bought 2 nest wifi pro to avoid wire my entire house with ethernet. Does not make sense bought 1 router per room if the performance will be degraded in this way 😞 . Again thanks for your time and your suggestions.