For the past six months, I have struggled to solve a problem with our Google smart speakers. Like most users we find these little devices very handy and helpful in answering many questions like how old is Trump or how young is Macron. But mostly, we use it in the morning while we’re having our first coffee in bed, and order the little device to “Play our NPR station” and it gives us brand new updates for the day.
We’ve been using our smart speakers for more than seven years and they worked pretty well. Four years ago we got a faster internet routers and these magic little speakers kept on working well, except that in larger homes where WiFi signals can be blocked a mesh router is often required to ensure a consistent and reliable Wi-Fi connection throughout the entire area.
It worked perfectly until six months ago when it began to sometimes drop the signal and stop unpredictably and frequently enough to become a real nuisance. Going from heaven to hell, so to speak. From the get go, I suspected the functionality of our Google smart speakers or the morning news broadcaster, factory-reset the former and chastised the latter, which tried to help but couldn’t find anything,
This was until more recently when the same flaw began to appear on other devices, like our TV while we were streaming a movie. That forced me to look well beyond my assumptions and dive into my network. Finally it’s on the Reddit chat room that I finally discovered that the Google Mesh system after a certain time of use exhibited this nasty behavior and had to be replaced.
All the discussions I followed comforted me in that direction. As a result I ordered a new mesh system and tomorrow, I’ll get the device and will discover if that really was my problem, so just stay tuned!
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