#Google wifi ap how to

I hope the above information helps you understand the behavior you are seeing. The primary unit must be connected to the internet via Ethernet. Lastly, just to be clear, Google WiFi is not a WiFi 'extender'. Having some devices connected to the outer network and some devices connected to the inner network will result in them having difficulty communicating with each other (the auto-discovery protocols in particular won't work across a router/firewall). When it is set up this way, it will be creating a new 'inner' network separated (by the firewall) from the 'outer' network it is connected to (the one created by your existing ASUS router, in your case). It has to be in router+firewall (NAT) mode to support mesh/secondaries. Hello a Google WiFi unit is set up in bridge mode, it does not support mesh/secondary units. It's not the easy, hands off setup described - but possibly because i haven't setup the Google router as my main NAT device.Īm i just setting my network up wrong or is there no hope of getting all units to work as repeaters or a bridge to my ASUS RT? any help would be appreciated.

#Google wifi ap how to

as there's no user manual (what's that?) in the box, i'm kind of at a loss how to set the remaining three wifi units up. The Google Home app recognizes the units, but can't seem to connect them. now i'm trying to connect the 3 other Google wi-fi points to my network - and my intentions were that two would have ethernet connections and one would just be a wi-fi point. In any event, i tried setting up the Google Wifi unit as a bridge, and after setting it up as a new mesh network was able to to change the settings to 'bridge'. is it problematic to keep the Asus router as the main access point to my network? it also has a lot of physical ethernet ports that i need to run my NAS units and security cameras. I've punched port holes through my existing firewall to access my NAS, and MY Q app for the garage - so am reluctant to reconfigure my ASUS as the bridge unit in case i have configuration issues. so i'm trying to expand coverage of my home with a mesh network, treating Google's wi-fi points as bridge units to my main router, an ASUS RT-AC88U.