Broadband Internet & ISP Recommendations?

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Soul
Anyone else have Google Wifi mesh setup?

I'm finding that it has some issues with handoff across the house. I have 4 nodes across three floors. Coverage in is excellent - no dead spots - but i have a host of other issues:
1. Strength seems weak even on the same floor. I'm 12 meters and one room (and a hallway) away from the main access point and i'm getting 70Mbps. The main router is testing at 360Mbps
2. Handoff sucks. There's a particular spot in the kitchen where it seems to get confused between two nodes and keeps switching causing minor drops or slowdowns
3. Sonos has an issue connecting and paired systems in the house often have the right hand of stereo pair drop or never play at all
4. iOS devices seem to have some compatibility issues which are widely reported on support forums. Sometimes they just drop for no reason. Wifi disappears and it jumps to 4G then back to wifi in 3 or 4 seconds. This is particularly prevalent when using facetime
Management of the system, general stability (it's never dropped as a network in two years) and cost of setting it up were all great but i'm wondering if there's a better solution.

Anyone got any wifi 6 mesh system set up yet?

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Stonehedge in reply to @Soul

Strength seems weak even on the same floor. I'm 12 meters and one room (and a hallway) away from the main access point and i'm getting 70Mbps. The main router is testing at 360Mbps

I'm not sure that link speed is associated with signal quality. I think Google vary the link speed according to what resources your device is requesting. I used to be disconcerted with reported link speeds until I noticed them bounce up when I was transferring data. Typically, my PC which is only about 5m from the nearest AP will have a link speed of about 150Mbps but then jump to 500Mbps when I'm moving files.

Other than that, with our 3 Google Wifi setup, I have never encountered any of those other issues.

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Soul in reply to @Stonehedge

I don't see any increase in performance when stepping away from speed test sites. Downloading from dropbox etc results in the same download speed.

The above comes across more negatively than it probably should as I've been happy with the setup overall. I guess I'm just a little annoyed that I'm paying for 380Mbps, getting it at the router and not seeing it outside of that room.

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