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Massive Google Wifi outage

26 points by monochromatic ↗ HN
Google is having some sort of issues with accounts today, and apparently that caused[0] a lot of their mesh routers to reset to factory defaults. Not sure how widespread this is, but there are a TON of people who are not happy.[1]

For my part, I reconfigured my routers this evening, and then a few hours later, they reset themselves again.

The beauty of cloud-managed hardware...

[0] https://support.google.com/wifi/answer/7335595

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!category-topic/googlewifi/Wifi/38Q-v9lBDRg

16 comments

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anaganisk
We discovered 7 earth like planets yesterday, google and cloudfare went full chaos today.
billconan
I actually had issue last weekend. One of the 3 routers died (shows as offline), So I tried reconfigure by unplugging and replugging it in. The light went on for few seconds, and the whole thing won't light up again. looks like dead.
hoschicz
Today, all my Androids required me to reenter my password. May be related to the Google Accounts problem. Is there any more info about it?
hijinks
That was due to the travisCI oauth issue. Google just signed everyone out that was authed to TravisCI
james_a_craig
Something more general. I got signed out, and I've never used TravisCI.
jrowley
I had an email account get removed from google inbox seemingly randomly yesterday. Must be related.
tdkl
Do you need a better proof that you're not in control of your own device you paid for ?
monochromatic
Seriously. I'm returning these.
s4vi0r
Why even buy em in the first place? Seems more like a product tailored to people who aren't really tech savvy, which I'd be surprised to find on HN.
monochromatic
Tired of fucking around with flashing custom firmware, manually setting up networks, etc. This just seemed like a painless option.

Nope.

alphabettsy
I would rather not have my network gear directly connected to Google. It's enough already that you don't have much choice on the internet.