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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent Router
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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Got the router and works great so far and pulling faster down/up speeds. If you have older technology be aware it might have issues. Had to buy USB Wi-Fi dongle to get a semi-newer laptop online.
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The device was very easy to set up and the coverage is great. It does uppdates automatically and it is really fast and reliable. Doesnt drop signal at all.
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Fought with Eero for several years. Fell down a rabbit hole of adding new devices. Was told I needed more devices then was told I had too many. At $100-$400 a piece it became incredibly frustrating. I purchased this newer router in a last ditch effort to try and get things to work correctly.
In the end my system was using backhauled EERO pro’s and this device as the gateway. Backhaul means that the eero devices send and receive data over (Cat6 in my case) Ethernet in the walls rather than using additional Wi-Fi bandwidth to communicate between units. Hypothetically it should be far more reliable and faster than simply using extenders or Eero devices without a hardwired connection. It wasn’t.
The network would do this thing where it would have rolling blackouts where devices would disconnect and then reconnect within 5-30 minutes. Sometimes it was noticeable and sometimes it was not so I can’t say how long it was going on for.
My iPhone hates Eero (or vice versa?). Sitting on my couch 5’ away from the gateway and suddenly my internet would stop working. Turn Wi-Fi on/off, repeat. Sometimes every 5 minutes…sometimes hours. Even replaced my phone to try and fix it.
So I bought this stupid thing because I’m in well over $1,000 in Eero stuff so might as well go forward…set it up as the gateway and it says “we need to update your network.” Ok. We’ll go out to a movie and run some errands. All day I get “your devices are disconnected” and “your device has reconnected.” We come home 6 hours later and it’s still dropping and adding and disconnecting eero devices. Reset. Try again. Gave up after another 3 hours and returned it.
My personal favorite tech support call was when I was told that one of my units was getting a “little hot” and when I asked where he could see that, he literally laughed at me and said he had access to soooo much more information than I do. About my product. That I purchased.
Another time the routers “decided” that my two sons couldn’t play Minecraft on the same server. Was told this time that Eero knows what’s best for me. What does that even mean? I had to have one of them
Connect to LTE.
What’s worse is that these Eero devices are not that fast. They’re mid-range quality devices loaded with sensors and analytics software. You can spend $300 on TP-Link, Netgear, or Asus devices and have a more secure connection, no spyware, better reliability, and cover 8,000sq ft vs $400 for a single Eero device with poor 5ghz connectivity. They’re ripping you off and stealing your information.
We replaced the system with Asus hardware and I was shocked to learn that local videos via SMB that would buffer for 30-60 seconds now loaded in 1-2 seconds. I guess they needed to check to make sure the content was ok and let Amazon know what I was watching first.
My speed test from within the router went from 800Mbps on EERO to 1.2Gbps on our Asus router. Those speeds are also reflected in hardwired devices too.
Sitting on my same couch my iPhone speed test has gone from 100-200Mbps to 700+.
I was able to use backhaul at 2.5Gb to connect my Asus router and mesh devices and it actually works. What’s better is that I can change and see everything in a comprehensive app and an even more in depth web page portal. I can set device preferences to keep devices connected to certain routers to load balance. I can turn off QOS and analytics easily.
I implore people to stop buying these devices. They are no more “easy” or “plug and play” than any other router product. You can spend far less, never touch a menu, and still get fantastic and more reliable Wi-Fi service than Eero provides.
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Excellent! This replaced the spectrum modem and actually covers the entire house including the garage. Also Wi-Fi speed has increased from what I had before.