I mentioned this too, I've since replaced these things with the TPLink
Deco system, so these useless orbies are sitting in their box until the
Google team can remedy. Totally seems like a thermal issue..
From my very cursory research this seems to me to be a problem with heat
dissipation..Not only does a far away point start to exhibit very high
latency with moderate throughput, but the device regularly runs
extremely hot..