Is 6 google Wifi 6 nest pro okey

[Sjostrand]

My question is if 6 google Wifi 6E nest pro is okey if configuration is as following, 1 router plus 5 access points Wireless.

The house i a from 1954 and its build with stone and concrete in 3 floors, (Basement, groundfloor and upper floor.)

My thoughts is as following, one nest as router plus one access point in Basement, 2 access points on ground floor and last 2 access points on upper floor.

Want to buy 2 ex of Nest Wifi Pro with Wi-Fi 6E 3-pack

[David_K]

@Sjostrand Google does not recommend using more than 5 routers in any network. The reason using more than 5 is not recommended is because Nest Wifi uses a "fewest hops" approach to getting traffic to its destination, so if one of your routers can get even a weak connection to your primary router, it will use that instead of going through another intermediate router. If you think you're going to need that many, a wired connection to each of your routers would be significantly more reliable (typically known as wired backhaul). If that's not possible, it's essentially a must to have your router centrally placed. Typically, it just won't be enough if the most distant routers are far away and if you really need that many routers, only wiring them is going to make the performance in that kind of setup satisfactory. This is especially the case given you mentioned the thick stone and concrete construction of your home, which is more difficult for the wireless signal to penetrate through.

[Sjostrand]

Hello 

Thanks for the reply.

I will backhaul som of the routers.

Why i ask about 5 to 6 of them is because the wifi signal is poor in this types of houses that was build to stand and last 200 years. Not like the cheap paper houses today.

So if i have many of them i still could get fairly  wifi signal coverage in the house.

[DJSubterrain]

Sometimes putting access points in the loft can help with this (if possible)

[David_K · Accepted solution]

I'd recommend against only hardwiring some of them. That will result in a disjointed mesh setup where some of your Wifi points are hardwired, and others are not. These kinds of setups are much more likely to cause problems that are very hard to diagnose. The primary one being that like I said, if one of your non-hardwired Wifi points can establish even a weak connection back to your primary Wifi point it will do that, over connecting to an intermediate closer Wifi point, because it prefers the least hops to get back to the primary Wifi point. This is also the reason Google recommends placing your primary Wifi point as close as possible to the centre of your home. The best advice I can give you is to do one or the other, not both. Either build a pure mesh topology (i.e. don't hardwire any of the points via ethernet) and follow Google's placement guidelines. Or, build a full ethernet backhaul setup where all your Wi-Fi points are hardwired.