Hi. Hoping someone has some advice please for a frustrating issue.
I have a Nest Router and 2 points set up at home. There are about 30 devices (TV, lights, kettles, curtains, etc - lots of home automation) running off the wifi driven by google home/assistant. There are another 15 or so devices connected via ethernet to an unmanaged gigabit switch plugged into a port on the Nest router.
One of the devices attached to unmanaged switch is a PC (i7 32Gb, 1Tb SD just running office apps – plenty of capacity there) that I do video conferencing on all day every day. I’m on NBN in Sydney – plenty of bandwidth there too – speedtest.net reports 274Mbps download and 21Mbps upload avg.
The problem is, despite all that capacity and lack of network stress, I get really poor resolution on video conferences on my end. Ie, others looking at my feed see blurred/pixelated images all the time. On my own screen, they all look fine – easy 720p resolution. (Google meet resolution is set to 720p on my end)
If however I go into the Google Home app and prioritise that PC on the network, hey presto, my feed is razor sharp to others. This says to me that there’s contention on the Nest mesh that it’s not handling properly, meaning I have to tell it to give that PC priority even though there’s nothing else (well … very little) going on on the network at the same time. This is an ethernet connected PC too, so it’s not even anything (I presume) to do with wifi contention. To add to the pain, I can only prioritise the PC for a max 4 hours at a time meaning that I have to keep turning it back on if I remember to multiple times a day, which I usually don’t until someone tells me my video is terrible and I remember to turn it on again.
Sorry that’s a ramble but it’s a bit of a rambling problem. Has anyone else hit this or is everyone using a Nest mesh having to prioritise devices to get a decent video conference feed?
Any thoughts appreciated, thanks!
