“How would this work with my Xfinity set up? I have the modem/router combo. I've read that I may need to disable the Xfinity router. If true, how do I do it? I have to clue what most of the terminology I've read here means so simple terms please.”
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Hi so it’s very simple, you’ll keep your xfinity modem you only unplug the xfinity router, set it aside and get the eero device and connect it to the modem as if it were the xfinity router. If it’s the providers device you could return it. Hope this helps.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It should work fine. The head/gateway eero only needs access to the internet via an ethernet cable. There are two concerns with this setup (xfinity router->eero). Having two devices generating wifi networks in close proximity can cause them interfere with each other. Either disable the wifi on the Xfinity or making sure the two are as far apart from each other as you can get them. The other concern is running two routers at the same time. Devices connected to Router A (xfinity) cannot talk to devices to Router B (eero) and vice versa, so if your computer is on one and the printer is on the other, you won't be able to print. You can resolve this by either bridging the eero (turning off its router), bridging the Xfinity router (make sure all devices are on the eero before doin this, for help bridging the Xfinity you will need to talk to them, we can tell you how to do stuff with the eero but the Xfinity is not our equipment) or by making sure you have all the devices you want to intercommunicate on the same network.
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