Attractive mesh hardware from a company with a track record of losing interest in its networking products. A firmware update caused problems that ran for months, which is the risk in one sentence.
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It depends on how you will use it. 51% would buy it again, which means roughly 49% would not. Update-caused problems ran on for months by owner accounts.
Hardware unchanged, software worse. The pattern here is the firmware update that landed after purchase and took months to settle.
Update-caused problems ran on for months by owner accounts. Commentators flagged longevity as the product's central question at launch. Reviewers have returned units over unresolved issues.
Worth it for: Households already committed to Google devices; People who want mesh that looks good in a room; Anyone who values simplicity over control. Think twice if: You were burned by a discontinued Google product before; You need fine-grained network control; Your older Nest Wifi units would need to keep working.
Our reading of how sentiment moves across an ownership period, drawn from the sources below. It is an editorial estimate, not tracked longitudinal data.
| At purchase | 7.7 / 10 |
|---|---|
| First week | 8.2 / 10 |
| One month | 7.0 / 10 |
| Six months | 6.4 / 10 |
| One year | 6.2 / 10 |
| Two years or more | 6.2 / 10 |
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Documents post-update problems that persisted well beyond launch.
Flags long-term support as the product's main risk at launch.
Reviewer explaining why the system went back despite good hardware.