“We have a 120 year old home with some lathe and plaster walls. Is this going to be strong enough to help carry the signal?”
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Our house is the same. Plaster with wood lath and metal lath / mesh at the archways. We have the router portion set up at the front room and the access point set up half way through the first floor. The system works better than any other system we've ever had. We get full coverage throughout all 1900 SF of the main house, basement and attic, and our back yard. Now, we could have used the 3 pack to help with the far reaches of our back yard some since it's a6000 SF lot. But I'm really pleased with this system otherwise. So, you should be good with the 2 pack but the 3 pack would help ensure good coverage.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Lathe and plaster walls are known to block Wi-Fi access points from transmitting strong signals. However, Nest Wi-Fi is equipped with 4x4 antenna that that helps broadcast strong and reliable Wi-Fi throughout your home. Although 5GHz bandwidth can transmit relatively strong signals, 2.4GHz bandwidth may be blocked by the walls. A solution may be to have more than one Nest WiFi router and set one up as your primary router connected to the modem, and then hardwire the others as downstreams from your primary router. You can then connect the wireless Nest WiFi points to these routers and enjoy them both as Wi-Fi access points and Google Assistant-enabled speakers.
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