Old school Nest mesh wont wire back haul

[GunnysGarage]

Hello all I have three old school Google Wi-Fi mesh. All of which were wired back hauled. I had two in my home one land wire running approximately 50 ft to my garage and a additional land wire of 50 ft running to my shop. At one time all of these functioned. For Simplicity I will name them one and two being in the home three being in the garage and for being in the shop. All of a sudden number three in my garage lost connectivity therefore removing connectivity to number four. My assumption was the Lan cable from 2 to 3 was bad. My solution was to wire backhaul a wire from my home number two bypass number three and connect it to my shop number four therefore giving me Wi-Fi back in my shop. I have tried both Pucks in my garage with a 100 ft Cat6 cable and neither one will connect to Puck number two. I did connect hook number two and new number for Via land cable straight out of the package and they connected. I stretch the Lan cable out and ran it to my shop and it will not connect anymore. My assumption was that it was connecting wirelessly and not be a wired and that is the reason why I can't connect to it when the wire is extended. Does anybody have any ideas how I can resume my wired connection from number two to number four via land cable? 

[ByronP]

Hi GunnysGarage,

Thank you for posting here in the community. I'm sorry that one of your Google Nest Mesh WiFi doesn't connect back to wired. I understand how frustrating it must be when it was originally working fine. Let's work together to find a solution.

Keep in mind that each Google WiFi is designed to cover 1-2 rooms; as you mentioned that it was covered 50 feet, that is a big distance to cover for each device. Also, the Google Mesh System was originally used wirelessly. To test the signal between devices, follow these steps:

1. Open the Google Home app.
2. Tap the WiFi space.
3. Then, select the WiFi points.
4. Select Test mesh.
5. The results will show the connections of all their Nest Wifi or Google Wifi points. If one or more has a weak connection, the app will tell them.

The recommendation here is to get additional WiFi points to cover the weak signal since it was installed in long distance through wired. Currently, Google WiFi cannot be connected to the internet using wired connections; eventually it will stop working like you posted previously since they made it connected wirelessly.

Another recommendation is to try moving the WiFi point closer to the primary Google WiFi (the one connected to their modem). Wifi points work best when they're no more than 2 rooms apart. After you close the devices, please try to do the following:

1. Open the Google Home app and tap the WiFi space.
2. Select Network settings, tap Advanced networking, then look for Cloud Services and WiFi Usage, toggle them off, then back on.
3. Force close the Google Home app.
4. Reopen the Google Home app and re-test the mesh connection.

Let me know if you have more questions.

Regards,

Byron