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2) Now that they've sold you on the "all the TV boxes in the house are a wireless AP and will be an extension of your overall Google Fiber home WiFi network", then they get there and tell you they won't enable it unless you demand it. They want the APs to be 150-200 feet apart before they're actually OK with it. Evidently it's the typical salesman vs. engineer deal, and the feature really isn't ready for prime time. According to the people who actually look you in the eye (unlike the corporate/sales assholes), Google doesn't actually want to enable it right now because the radios apparently step on each other and all the wireless devices get confused, quit working well, disconnect and reconnect a LOT, and it's causing a lot of calls. So it'll work someday, but the sales people don't have the balls to quit selling it like it's ready for Prime time.
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You can turn this on/off yourself from within your router settings. It's nothing that Google is keeping from you. It works just fine if you enable them, but it's simply overkill to have that many access points within a small area. The feature is there if you need it, but the reality is most people simply don't. Especially not on all boxes.
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3) It blows that Google decided to have their "TV Box" be controlled by a Blue Tooth remote. So if you're coming from Time Warner where you got one "official" remote (like Google), most off-brand remotes could still do 99% of what the Time Warner remote could do, and controlled the TV box and the TV too. Not so with Google. And there appears to be an IF receiver in the box, so it's bothersome. Google's answer is to use their Google Fiber App, and that App kinda sucks for being a Set-top box and TV controller - you can't do things like control volume, and that's dumb. So that off-brand universal "in the kitchen" remote you might have used to mute the TV for family dinner is now junk. Simply stupid IMO.
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This hasn't bothered me one bit. If you need to mute your TV, just use the Google remote. That said, I have my TV hooked up to a stereo receiver, so of course I can use that remote if/when I want to mute the TV. In fact, my factory TV remote remote, Google remote, and my receiver remote will all control volume for me.
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5) They won't run Cat5e cable to all the wired locations you want, they'll only run one; so chose the location you want the full Gig wisely. The rest are probably going to be wireless. I know I'm going to be using a couple of 5-port Gig switches and running some Cat5e on my own!
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If you have your own Gigabit network then you're fine. That includes a Gigabit wifi router. You won't get 900+ Mbit over Gigabit wifi, but I typically get 600 - 700 Mbit where-as the wifi router they provide only gives you around 200 - 300 Mbit (only...lol!)
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6) The remote seems to have a lot more lag in operations like pulling up the guide. It was enough slower that I was pressing the guide button twice because I didn't think I had pressed it.
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When I first got mine there was quite a bit of lag booting up the TV box as well as in the menu, etc. They released an update, though, that fixed all of that. Maybe you have boxes that didn't get the update..?? It happened a couple of months ago.