max distance between nest points to get max signal

[beerman]

Just switched to bell fibre and now i can't get wifi to my garage which is about 120' from my bell router  trying to get TV working with  a fire  stick...I bought the nest with router and one point, hooked up ok .Then i move the point back to my garage and now not getting a strong signal and fire stick gives my a fault of internet too slow and doesn't work.Do i need to buy another point and put between to get a stronger signal ?and when i do get the stronger signal will i get better download for the fire stick to work? Also what is the temperature these can work in ?

[brentkassing]

Getting a second point should do the trick.  There are all kinds of stuff in a house that limits the distance (and speed) of your network.  You really are going to just have to experiment with it to see which locations in your house will give you the best signals.

[MichaelP]

Hello @beerman 

I would not purchase another point in this situation. What I would do is place the point you have half way between the primary Nest WiFi Router unit and the client devices you are trying to get connected. The reason is that the Nest WiFi Point and Nest WiFi Router only talk to each other at 5GHz, which has less range than 2.4GHz does. So, the best advice for optimal placement is to have the Nest WiFi Router as close to the center of your home as possible with Nest WiFi Point units one or two rooms away from there, close enough that they can get strong 5GHz WiFi connections to the Nest WiFi Router themselves, and from there they will provide 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi connectivity to more distant clients.

Placing another Nest WiFi Point in between is unlikely to help, since the mesh path selection algorithm prefers fewer hops, meaning that if that distant point can get through to the primary directly, then it will – even if another point unit is in between.

[Jeff]

Hi, beerman.
I just wanted to jump in real fast to see if you saw MichaelP's reply and to see if you still needed some help on this or if you were able to get it sorted out. If you are still needing some help, just let us know and we'll be happy to continue helping.
Thanks.

[Jeff]

Hi, everyone.
Just one quick final check in here since activity has slowed down. We'll be locking the thread in the next 24 hours, but if you still need help, I would be happy to keep it open. If there's more we can do, just let me know.
Thanks.

[Jeff]

Hi, everyone.
As we haven't had any activity here recently I'm going to go ahead and close the thread. If you have more to add, feel free to start a new discussion.
Thanks