[londons_explore]

I've had a pretty disappointing run with those Google Wifi routers...

It started with the lack of ability to have an open guest wifi... Like - it's for my guests, I want anyone to be able to connect, and I don't want to be faffing with passwords or guests having to ask me... I have to name my network "My House - Password Is password"

Then every month it seemed to do some kind of update and disconnect wifi devices... Sure - it's only for 30 seconds, but a disconnection is a disconnection. Thats going to boot you off whatever game you are playing...

And now I've got the trouble that as you have a bunch of mesh points, you can't walk between them without glitches in a video call... Like seriously - I should be able to start facetime and walk round my house without random freezes for 5 seconds while it reconnects to a different mesh point.

Google Wifi has been out for years now, and not a single one of these bugs is any better than it was at launch. Not really acceptable for a $400 router setup!

[jeffbee]

Google Wifi just released a new version in June 2020. The one before that was October 2019, and June 2019 before that. That's only 2 updates per year. How disruptive is that?

[ndesaulniers]

If it means the software is up to date, then I can live with an interruption. It might be nice to have power controls, but I think they do a fair job keeping the UI simple. That's not to say a power user UI couldn't be added, but it certainly increases the testing burden to add new features that need to be tested for regression.