Amazon eero Pro 6E mesh wifi system - Supports internet plans up to 2.5 Gbps, Coverage up to 6,000 sq. ft., Connect 100+ devices, 3-pack

I'm a network engineer snob who won't hesitate a single second to give most of the home router and wifi junk sold today a terrible review when it's warranted. After having two router/wifi solutions made by that company that starts with Net and ends with Gear fail on me in less than 6 months, I was about ready to spend a few grand on a Ubiquiti solution and wire up my home for access points and cameras. Then a colleague and friend of mine suggested this eero mesh system as a lower cost/effort option. I'm not a fan of plug and play stuff and was skeptical but figured I could return it if not happy. I have to say I'm pretty impressed. The set up was almost too easy. Just download the eero app to your phone, plug a device in and connect the 2.5g port to your router and the app will walk you through it all. Most importantly, it worked really well when solutions like this from other vendors don't forcing you to connect a cable and manually set up. At first I didn't like that there isn't any ability to give the 2.4ghz and 5ghz networks different SSIDs (I had my previous router set up this way and changing this would have meant climbing up a ladder and reconfiguring several Ring cameras) but eero let's you change the name of the Guest Network to anything you want so this was an easy work around. As others have mentioned download the Wifiman app and shortcut and start scanning your house after you install the main router/wifi device. When you find spots that the signal drops below GOOD quality (-70dbm) drop another unit in between the first and where the signal dropped to poor quality. I bought the 3 pack thinking I'd need it to cover a 6,000 sq ft home. However one device was provided good coverage for most of my house and two provided either excellent or good signal strength everywhere inside and even outside on my patio and driveway. I only have one device on the first and second floors and both floors as well as the basement are all receiving good/excellent signal quality. I could have definitely saved $100 and gone with a two pack but I'm ok with having an extra device as a back up or if someone else in the family needs it (keep in mind any of these devices can act as a standalone router/wifi solution) or even to temporarily extend WiFi farther out into my yard in fair weather for outdoor gatherings etc.. Overall I'm impressed. The dashboard and tools/analytics included with the app are more than adequate for home users. You can even set up alerts for new devices connecting to your network. The GUI is modern and responsive and not like some of the traditional router vendors who still support an antiquated web login that takes forever to connect, lags between function and times out frequently. Time will tell if this is reliable but as mentioned a friend and colleague who owns his own network solution business told me he installs these in homes where the cost and wiring of a Ubiquiti or similar solution is prohibitive and he's never had an issue with their performance and reliability.

I have been in the market for a decent Wi-Fi 6 mesh router for under $600 for more than one year and realized that release of the 6E is around the corner. So far I have evaluated multiple Wi-Fi 6 routers and I have faced at least one non-compromising issue with all these.Netgear Orbi RBK753S (Costco):-- Not reliable connectivity. Would lose connections or the router suddenly goes into a frozen state frequently. Tried with another unit too and faced the same issue. Netgear support was horrible. Also, it didn't have the support for parental controls.ASUS ZenWiFi XT8 (Amazon):-- This is the best router among all of them I have tested so far. I have been using the ASUS family of routers all my life. They are reliable and long life.-- I had to return this because all my IoT devices which use 2.4 GHz often disconnect and g into a bad state. I had to frequently reset them to fix them.TP-Link Deco X90 (Amazon):-- Decent router but had to return these as they would suddenly freeze and had to restart them at least once in 2 days.Reyee RG-R6 (Amazon):-- Not bad router for the price but had to return them as they would freeze frequently and had to hard restart them. Sometimes, it takes more than 15 to 20 mins for them to restart.I was excited about Eero Pro Wi-Fi 6E and pre-ordered them and so far they are really good and found no issues except the few temporary glitches to the clients.Pros:-- Set up was really easy and fastest among all these routers.-- Nice app with intuitive design. Easy to use.-- Elaborated parental controls (subscription is needed and currently I am under the 30 days eval period), security, add blocker, etc.-- Might subscribe for Eero Secure+ Which comes with several other apps like 1Password, Encrypt.me for which I currently pay separately.-- Fast speeds and reliable connectivity so far.-- Future-proofed With 6E and realized that my wife's Google Pixel 6 Pro is connected to the 6 GHz band and has speeds touching 1 Gbps.Cons:-- Have to pay for security and parental controls where some of the routers like ASUS come built-in.-- I had to restart some of my devices like Apple TV, and a couple of Windows PCs after switching to this router. They were using a 2.4 GHz band even though they support 5 GHz. But after the restart, they have been working just fine.So far this router is a keeper and I'll update this review for any changes as I continue to use it.

After repeated, torturous attempts with other routers to replace the wifi network provided by our beloved Apple Time Capsule, we are relieved and thrilled to have landed on the 2-unit eero Pro 6E router. Hallellujah!Among other things, the eero routers (and their mesh) were trivial to set up, the support was great (and barely needed), and a great surprise, the eero routers automatically connect to our wifi-aware HP LaserJet M401dw printer (via a feature in the eero routers called Universal Plug and Play, or uPnP), so that I don't have to choose the printer's wifi before printing. And oh yeah, the eero routers' mesh covers our 1,600-sq ft house nicely, with great signal speed and strength, and automatically chooses my Mac's fastest wifi speed.TIP (old news to most of you, I presume): To provide additional ethernet ports from the routers, I bought and installed the inexpensive, high quality "NETGEAR 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS105NA)", which required no setup at all, except that the switch must be connected to either of the eero routers after the eero router is connected to your cable modem, so that your ethernet service can recognize the additional ports provided by the switch.My only complaint is that setting up the eero routers requires a cell phone, and as I love macOS for its legacy self-evident user interface, I hate cell phones! But that said, set up with the cell phone was trivial. So...FULL POINTS!!!PS. Despite searching hard, I never found a router that supported Time Machine backups via wifi, which was possible with the Apple Time Capsule. Instead, I have adopted Apple's present guidance to make Time Machine backups to an SSD (removable flash drive). I use two, keeping one in the house and one in the car and swapping them with every backup. Works fine, but I miss Steve Jobs!

I am not one for writing reviews as of late, but I feel that this is a must for those of you like myself just getting into mesh systems and wanting the best of the best or least wanting something worth the money. Let me start of by saying that this is my first mesh system. I returned it one week after owning it. Why you ask? Because it went on sale for $200 cheaper a week later after I purchased this past August 2022, so I returned it and immediately purchased the exact same setup for the sale price. Now that that is out of the way, lets get into the brass tax.I have over 100 smart devices, bulbs, led strips, switches, plugs, tvs, way too many gaming systems, tablets, phones, blinds, fans, garage door, sprinkler, speakers, 10 variations of Echos, computer pcs and macs, in my 1 story attached garage 2000 sq ft home of concrete stucco hurricane code. I purchased the 3 pk this past August of 2022. Now is it overkill? Maybe. Prior to this I purchased several WIFI range extenders just so I could reach my outside landscape smart bulbs, and my driveway smart lights and my smart sprinkler Rachio. Needless to say that was a fail, the price of those extenders were fairly cheap and that was the definition of you get what you pay for. I was barely getting 15 down and 1 up with those extenders by my smart sprinkler panel that is attached to the outside of my home.I decided to take a dive into EERO and go all out and get the PRO 6e. The first couple of days I was getting speeds of 500 down and 40 up. Then things started to get a little crazy. Mind you I set them up at the farthest corners of the house and have one in the garage as well. As the week went on devices started slowly disconnecting and wouldn't work. Lifx anything was totally useless, and so were the nanoleaf panels. Shortly room by room the wiz bulbs started to not work and then eventually the govee anything and Roombas as well as sonos speakers. Everything started to not connect to the network. I have one EERO set up next to the modem/router combo from Xfinity in the center of my 2000 sq ft home serving as the gateway and each of the other two are over 500 feet away.At this point and you might be thinking to yourself that is one expensive failing range extending system. At least that is what I was thinking. SO I called Amazon customer support and I was transferred to an EERO tech who got me through the process of hard resetting each EERO and only having one connected. He advised me that having more than one in my 2000 sq ft home was overkill and I was clogging up the highway of bandwidth. So shortly after I got off the phone with tech support, I was thinking to myself....wait what? If that were true then why were all my devices working flawlessly in the beginning when I first set them up a week ago?So I connected the other two and boom all my devices were lightning fast no lag no hesitation. This time almost 600 up on my phone and almost 700 on my PC. Wirelessly I might add. A week goes by and then it starts happening again, I went through the entire reset process disconnected every device reconnected everything and things are back running smoothly. At least I thought. So digging through the web and further investigating I decided to go into bridge mode. Based on EEROS software and program design, they are set up to optimize your entire home network every so often, in my case it was one week. However their optimization program in router mode is counterintuitive in my case. This is why all the clients/devices were having connectivity issues.Now here is where the fun begins because I was going to send these back, because my 11 year old Netgear gaming router was out performing this system...until I bridged it. Wow, PC speed is almost at 900 down, and the PC is far away from the mesh systems, phone speeds at about 800. And every single device has not disconnected or dropped and works beyond my expectations. Outside of my house I live on a 10000 sq ft lot and I can go anywhere in my yard and I have signal. Not to mention these things are fighting through concrete stucco and probably more traffic then i35 and i10 combined during construction. Overall 4/5 due to the so called router optimization software they use and the fact that they would have you pay for a sub, which reminds me I need to cancel since their subscription services do not work in bridge mode.If you are too lazy to read all that here is a short list of pros and cons.Pros: Super fast speeds, easy to set up, app is easy, sleek futuristic clean minimal designCons: Price, takes quite some tinkering on user end to optimize setup, subscription based servicesSpecial notes:1 EERO serving as the gate in bridge mode directly connected to the router/modem from Xfinity.My EERO serving as gateway has an outgoing powered network switch attached to it.I have 1.2 GBps with Xfinity, just with the one EERO Pro 6e wired I an getting above 1.4GBps super fastIf you are not savvy with nerdy geeky stuff, hire a pro to optimize your network.These are worth it and I would recommend even without the sale price.Invest into a firewall router if going into bridge mode.

We got the eero 2 piece system to replace our orbi modem/router 3 piece system. Our home is about 3400 sq ft finished including the basement. We placed the two eero units on the main floor (the router) and the satellite also on the main floor on opposite side of the house. The coverage has been sufficient. We use an arris surfboard modem with xfinity 1G service with speeds of around 800-1000mbps download. We have wireless blink cameras all over the property totally around 15 cameras. We use a ring video doorbell and a Schlage smart lock. We have about 5 echo devices from dots to the echo show 15. There are near a dozen smart bulbs or plugs throughout the house, smart deebot vacuum, 4-5 tablets, 2 phones, Xbox one, a handful of firestick and ruku units and a few laptops. Very rarely do we have issues with signal with many many of these devices all running at the same time. I wanted to upgrade our wifi 5 orbi system with an all in one again with wifi 6 but didn’t like the options and prices so I looked into the eero system and many users have said the arris surfboard works well together. So we went for it since we have so many amazon products already. I was worried I would have to reset the modem or router constantly because that has been my experience in the past prior to orbi with separate units. We haven’t had any issues. Occasionally some of the further cameras take a bit longer to load live video feed. Or if all of our family of 5 are in the family room together all on multiple devices competing for the signal of the main eero router unit that’s in the same place, sometimes we will have buffering or video etc. I think it’s more of an xfinity issue though because it tends to happen when it’s bad weather I’ve noticed. The security trial that is included wasn’t exactly for us because it limited so much that many webpages wouldn’t even work until I disabled the features. I do like that you can pause devices separately and can also assign them to a person or group so multiple devices can be paused. Discovering the devices was a bit of an ordeal. Many were improperly labeled as to what they were or in the case of my cameras I needed to go in and match ip addresses to each device discovered and manually go in and rename it in eero so I knew which was which. This took a while and there’s still a few im stumped on. We were able to set up the network (only one network needed for all frequencies 2.4, 5ghz etc) with the same name and password as our orbi system so every device in the home automatically reconnected to the eero network which saved me about 100 times needing to manually enter passwords again. Overall very happy with the system despite some logistical road bumps. I feel confident that it was the best value for us given our isp and that it will support future upgrades in isp for several more years before needing a new system.

Edit:I gave these away. They were terrible and a source of frustration in my life. Eero tech support was responsive, but basically had you reboot the system and the stupid things would get stuck during reboot often, which then started a whole process of unplugging them all and plugging them back in 1 at a time. Then a few weeks later it would crap out again. I bought some Max7s (felt stupid buying another eero product after the experience I had with these 6es) and the max 7s have been solid since day one. So much better, went from an abusive relationship and source of frustration to something that just works.I have a large home and 2 outbuildings. There is an eero Pro6e in each outbuilding and 4 in the house. (2 on the main floor, one in the basement and one on the second floor. When these work well, they are great. They make you think they are a good thing.But almost every week, they wig out and my Eero network goes down. My network is fed from a TMobile home internet box that is also broadcasting wifi. When the eero network is giving me speeds of less than one mbps, connecting directly to the tmobile device I will see speeds well over 100 mbps.I have spent so many hours with eero tech support. Most calls last nearly an hour and rarely ends with a satisfactory resolution. Basically, they check to make sure you have the latest firmware, then unplug and plug in eeros or have you reset / reboot your eeros. Over the course of 20+ calls with level 1 and 2 tech support, we have changed one setting, a DNS server. Other than that, all they do is reboot and hope.My last call really drove me crazy. I added another 2 echo devices. The echos have eero built in, but using it only seems to mess things up. Well I installed the two echos, and the eero built in is defaulted on. Of course, the network went down when I added them. I turned the built in eero off, but it was still down. I rebooted the eero network, it got stuck. After 20min I unplugged and waited 3 min then plugged it back in. Still dead. I tried the soft reset, but the device did a hard reset and removed itself from my account. I called tech support. They had me make a different eero the gateway and repeat the exact steps I just did. Guess what, the second eero took itself off my account. The tech support guy then asked me to make a 3rd eero the gateway and repeat the same steps. I lost it. Then he decided the issue was my TMobile internet. Yet everything connected to T-Mobile worked fine. I gave up, unplugged all the eeros and changed the TMobile network name to my main Internet. It doesn't cover half the area, but at least it works.I have never had the backup internet work. I called that one in to tech support multiple times, but again after over hours, they just reboot devices and don't fix anything.Level 2 is a little better, but they really haven't fixed anything.When they work, they are kind of awesome. I have fast coverage all over my home and shops. Unfortuntaely, it feels like more often than not, they are not working. Without notice or pertibation, it just wigs out. I really couldn't be more disappointed in these things and would throw them away had I not spent so damn much on 6 of them and their annual service.

To be clear, this purchase was an upgrade to my existing eero Wi-Fi system, not a first-time installation.Setup is straightforward and hassle-free as long as you follow the included instructions. The key step is to disconnect and power down your modem first. After waiting about 25 seconds, reconnect and power it back on before adding the new eero device. Following these steps made the installation quick and seamless.Having used several other high-end router brands over the years, I have found eero to be the best fit for my needs. One of its biggest advantages is that firmware updates are handled automatically in the background, eliminating the need for manual updates or ongoing maintenance. In addition, I have found eero to be exceptionally reliable. Its Wi-Fi coverage is broader and more consistent, with fewer dead spots and virtually no intermittent connection drops compared to other premium routers I've owned.As for the eero Pro 6E specifically, I chose it because its tri-band design is better equipped to handle the demands of numerous connected devices while delivering excellent speed and performance. An added bonus I discovered is that all eero models are backward compatible. My new tri-band eero Pro 6E works seamlessly with my older dual-band eero extenders, requiring no additional configuration or setup. That compatibility made upgrading my network both simple and cost-effective.

I've been using this mesh wifi system for about a year now and the performance has been rock solid. The set can sync the mesh over a wired backbone, freeing up your wifi spectrum for end devices that don't have wired ethernet ports, like tablets and mobile phones. I let the Eero Plus subscription lapse and I don't think its really necessary. I like that it gives you a lot of control over the advanced configuration settings via the app, including turning the guest network on / off without having to restart the router. Both of those features give it a leg up over the Netgear Orbi wifi6 mesh system I replaced with this Eero system. I would say that the level of performance and configurability are probably a notch lower than Ubiquiti, but I've never owned a Ubiquiti system to compare it to. Just basing that opinion off of what I've read / seen / heard. The satellites are small, USB-C powered, and they don't get overly hot even though they don't have an active fan. The only real complaints I have about this system are the ethernet port density / speed (you have to get a higher end model for that) and that when the main router has an issue, the satellites don't seem to be able to self-heal the network on their own. For example, if you have to bring the router down and then back up, the only way that seems to work properly in my setup is to turn off the satellites, turn off the switch, turn off the router, and then bring them back up in the reverse order (router, switch, satellites).