“I have Ethernet run throughout my house. The question is if I can run each of these off their own Ethernet connection, rather than relying on one hub to provide connection wirelessly to the other hubs? But still one mesh wireless network.”
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Short answer yes. Especially could be useful if your wired ethernet is gigabit and if you have a segment of your house that is walled off with wifi blocking materials. Here is the response from google technical support: Thank you for contacting Google Wifi Care. My name is Brian and I will be happy to help you out with this! You can connect Google Wifi points via Ethernet if you want. In most use cases it probably doesn't matter whether they are wired or wireless. There certainly wouldn't be a disadvantage to use wired over wireless (unless it means not locating the access point in the best location). Whether there is an actual advantage depends on what the connected devices are, what they're doing and the speed of the Internet itself. If you have the Ethernet cables available in the ideal location for a wireless access point, you should use them. If not, then you shouldn't. It is accurate that to setup multiple Google Wifi points you start off wirelessly. Then move them to their desired locations and connect by Ethernet. They'll then use the best connection available. If I can be of any further assistance or you have any other questions, please let me know by replying directly to this email. You can also reach us at 844-442-3693. We are here to help 24/7! Thanks, Brian Wifi Care
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.According to Google's wifi support page, yes.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.My builder used CAT-5 through the walls then just hooked up what was necessary for phone. All that I am seeing is the units can be LAN or WAN. I don't see anything about backhaul capability. I'll update once I get these.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.From what I've read on other sites, yes. You can connect each puck to an ethernet cable, but they will still be one wireless mesh network.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Looks like it supports both wired and wireless setups. So if you have ethernet it will use that for its backhaul, and if you don't have Ethernet (like most of us:) it will use its mesh technology.
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