“Can I connect this and use this in addition to my existing router/built-in WiFi? I don’t need to disable the current router/WiFi so in the end I will have a total 4 source of WiFi signals with one WiFi name and password? If yes, is the set up easy?”
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Hope my example helps answer your question. I added this mesh to our Xfinity router. The speeds are much faster than the Xfinity pods we had in the past but not as fast as connecting directly to the router itself. Once connected, the eero mesh formed it's own network which I set up using the app on my iPhone. I now have two WiFi networks. One is the Xfinity router and the second is the eero mesh. The only devices connected to the original WiFi are the media devices such as the TV, Roku, etc that are right next to the Xfinity router. I moved almost all of our other WiFi devices to the eero mesh including our printer. The printer was important because I found that a laptop on the eero network could not communicate with the printer if it was on Xfinity WiFi network. In the end: two WiFi connections in the house, one is the original Xfinity WiFi and the other is the eero WiFi (which still has to run through the Xfinity Router). May sound complicated but it really is not.
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