Mesh internet speed test vastly different from actual download/upload speeds

[landinH]

I have Frontier 1 gig wifi and am experiencing vastly different reports on the different speed tests. The fiber connection is in my garage; my nest router is at that location, my nest point is 40 feet away with 1 wall in between in my kitchen. When I do a speed test in my garage at that location my router will I will get wifi speeds up to 500--600 mpbs. However in the house the speed is much slower. When I test (in the house) the mesh internet speed I get the following results: 

I am connected via the 5 ghz . My mesh test shows a "great connection". The above test screen shots are from the same spot right by my kitchen point. 

I ran an additional test that prioritizes my device with no improvement of the internet speed test. 

Thank you for any help y'all can think of

[domwhewell]

Mine is like this. My thinking is the internet speed test to the router is all hardwired so your not gunna get much loss there from your ISPs quoted speed.

The router has a wireless radio to broadcast the mesh connection to the point and the point has a receiver. This connection will loose some speed as it's wireless it's never going to be 100% efficient. There's then some wall and some distance to cover so this will have to factor in some loss, there also might be other wireless signals to take into account if they are on the same band (although I think nest WiFi says it auto switches bands if it senses interference)

Any devices connecting to your points will also have their own wireless radios which may not be good enough to receive the signal.

All that being said this is quite a large loss in download speed. It may be the radio on the nest wireless is not rated to broadcast those high speeds you get to the router

[Sungki]

What is the model of your Google Nest Wifi?

[landinH]

The model number is H2D; purchased new last year as a set (one router with a point)

My point is model number H2E

[jckean]

There may be nothing unusual here in comparing speeds, for one or more reasons:

WiFi speeds tend to decrease with distance between the  (nest) router and the remote node because of WiFi signal attenuation over distance (inverse-distance loss), as well as added losses through building materials, plus added noise from other electronic devices and equipment in the home that.

Also, speed tests can differ wildly.  Speed tests on a near-by round trip (in the same town) usually register much faster than when the round trip is from a router farm in the next town, which goes through intermediate routers and switches.  One needs to run the same test procedure and use the same remote router to make comparable measurements.

[LovelyM]

Hello everyone, 

@domwhewell, I appreciate you sharing your input and trying to help here.

@landinH, thanks for reaching out. Please test the connection on your ISP modem, Google Nest Wifi router and point again. Make sure that the Ethernet cable is securely plugged into the modem and router before conducting the test. Also, we recommend that your point be no more than two rooms apart. Check out this article to learn more: Troubleshoot slow internet on Google Nest Wifi or Google Wifi.

Sincerely, 
Lovely