I purchased this because at the time I thought my current router had failed. I can't state how important it is for us to have a working router. We have cut the cord and our house is a true definition of a smart home. It is bad when my daughter doesn't know how to turn off her lap manually lol, as my wife pointed it out to me. My ideal smart home is for everything to work seamlessly, it should feel like a it's not there. Until it is not there and you realize how much you depend on the smart home. So getting a replacement was on top of my list, but never gave up on my old router. When researching for a new router I was looking at a mesh system because of the problems I was having with my current system. My house is around 1800 square feet, I feel it is not a extremely large house. But coverage of my Nighthawk Ac1900 was good but not great. In the house the signal was great we had no problems with a 60mbps on average. But we don't just live in the house, we like to be outside when possible. We have a tv in the patio with a fire tv connected to it. I found it easier to have a better wifi signal than run a bunch of wires outside. The problem was that my router didn't provide a great signal outside. So the connection was not consistent. To fix this problem I purchased a wifi range extender not just any one but a good one or so I thought. Well I shouldn't say it was bad, it worked well my problem was that it made two new wifi signals. The Nighthawk Ac had two signals 2g and 5g, so with the Netgear Ac 1200 wifi extender it added two more wifi signals 2gext and 5gext. Most smart devices that is not a problem you set it and for get about it. The phones is what had the biggest problems, knowing which wifi to connect to when and where. So the front of the house worked better with the 2g and 5g while the back of the house worked better with the 2gext and 5gext. It is not a huge problem but I really want a seamless smart home. I was very happy that I got the netgear back working before the google wifi got here. So I feel I was given the chance to compare the two. I figured that I could test it out and still return it for any excuse. The price was a little hard to swallow, because I spent around $200 on the Ac 1900 and $120 on the ac1200 and forgotten to mention the $35 on the n300 wifi range extender. So spending another $300 on a new router was hard. I truly wanted to keep my old set up, that is a lot of money to spend. I am using wink products because you find some of them pretty cheap, wink hubs are cheaper than purchasing two smart switches in my experience. I know if they have the quirky label it is even cheaper. The quirky smart plug is a inexpensive way to control two plugs. The problem with an older technology and will only work with the 2g wifi set up. If you try to connect it to a 5g wifi it will not work. When I connect the google wifi i was very concerned that it only had one wifi signal. I was sure that it wouldn't work with the quirky smart plug. But to much surprise it worked with no problems. I really didn't have any problems hooking up any of my 47 connected devices in our house, yes I said 47 devices. I would definitely advise if you have many devices to label them as soon as you enter them in. Trust me they can get easily lost when you go back and try to label all of your devices. The photos I have provided one to show how many devices and the other is the download capability with two hd videos streaming. I'm very pleased with this purchase, I can say that I put this wifi to its limits and I'm not disappointed. Because they are three devices and none are considered to be the true master. I feel that I the chances of completely be in the dark (no internet) falls solely on my internet provider. If one fails i can move them around to get it working, a smaller wifi signal is way better than no wifi signal. Not to mention that the price for one replacement is cheaper than replacing a "good router"