Using switch with Google WiFI

[Chris30001]

Hi, I have the following setup as have a very thick stone wall between router 1/3 and router 2, so wired to a switch beyond the wall.

Modem (500mps) ------> Google WiFi router (1) ---------> unmanaged switch  ---------> Google WiFi router (2)

Google WiFi router (wireless)

With this is set up, I am getting full speed WiFi near router 2, in the extension to the house beyond the stone wall.  However, in the other rooms (near router 1 &2) I am getting vert slow speed, as seems to be connecting to router 2 only over the WiFi. I'm expecting the wifii to work from each router and give me fast speeds in all rooms. Can anyone tell me where i am going wrong please?  Thanks

[David_K]

It sounds like you have a partial ethernet backhaul and 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 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.

[Chris30001]

thanks David, will have a go at the pure mesh option as you describe. thanks again