In August I bought the 3 pack google wifi mesh network, fed up with my ISPs router struggling to keep up. Sadly its been a mixed bag of joy and disappointment and have had to go back to the ISP router.
From day 1 something wasn't right as my son constantly complained of dropped connections playing online games like clash royale. Reconnects immediately but obviously ruins the game (pixel 3a). My daughter plays roblox and her iphone is fine but if she ever uses my pixel 4a exactly the same thing happens, connection drops every few minutes and she is disconnected from the game session. Impossible to play those games with this issue and only affects pixel 3a and 4a. Other iphones are fine.
Otherwise I was happy with it apart from my wife's work needs a software VPN and again, constant random blips that I never noticed (macbook and windows) meant it was impossible to work with. Movie streaming, other work not on VPN, other games other than roblox or clash royale on pixel phones, no problem at all and could really appreciate the better wifi until the moaning got too loud and I went back to the ISP wifi.
Did:
- factory reset
- definitely not double NATed
- mesh points all "good" connection to the base and moved them around just in case
- google support trotted out usual stuff, ended up using a static IP, reserved IP, google DNS, etc etc. all obviously nothing to do with it. They setup a monitor on my reserved IP and couldn't see anything suggesting only that I contact pixel support since it was only pixel phones apart from my wife's macbook + vpn suffering similar.
- switched off the points leaving only the base on
... still the same problems.
Is this just how it is ? Lots of references to issues on the internet but nothing quite matches. New firmware details are hard to come by - is anything other than the app integration being worked on ? It feels like there is some fundamental issues somewhere and an utter waste of money and time thus far.
