Amazon eero Pro 6E mesh wifi system - Supports internet plans up to 2.5 Gbps, Coverage up to 8,000 sq. ft., Connect 100+ devices, 4-pack

So I did a lot of research on this product from YouTube to PC magazine and everything in between. I was going to wait to pull the trigger until prime day or a better holiday sale but unfortunately my Orbi mesh just completely stopped working out of the blue. It was an older 2 pack (RBK50 ) I believe but it struggled to ever produce more than 100mbs in any given space. It had a pretty strong reach but couldn’t give me the 1 Gig speeds I was paying for. Set up on the eero 6e was very easy as everyone has said. I really liked that once it was set up it instantly did the necessary software updates all on its own while still giving a really good Wi-Fi signal throughput the house. For anyone wanting to know speeds and performance I’m using the 3 pack version for my 2500 SQFT house. The box says it covers over 6000sqft so technically this would be overkill but I have a 1/2 acre lot and some pretty thick old brick walls so I wanted to make sure it could produce well anywhere inside and out. I’m very pleased with the fast speed and strong signal I’m getting approx 2-400 mbps throughout the the house and 150-200 outside consistently. One thing to be aware of- follow the directions and ensure placement is not completely blocked by large electronics as it will shorten your range, however, I’m finding that even if it’s completely unobstructed the best signal from any of the devices is about 20 feet away. Being less than 5 feet actually had a SLOWER speed than 20 feet away in another room!! Can’t explain why but just know placement does matter and I recommend getting it as low to the floor as possible. The signal goes up and out rather than horizontally so keep that in mind for placement. Really like this system and I do not have any 6e devices yet but I plan on purchasing arc with Wi-Fi 6e and the new fire tv coming out later this month that features Wi-Fi 6e as well. I highly recommend anyone needing a whole home reliable wifi system go ahead make the purchase. Much cheaper than the Orbi 6e and I like the app better. Only thing the Orbi had better was 4 Ethernet ports on each satellite. This only has 2 but I just bought a external Ethernet bridge on Amazon for like 20$ so I can have my whole front room hard wired vice using the Wi-Fi. Great product overall and I highly recommend. I’m not a super tech guy and I didn’t get this as promotional item or anything. Just a regular dude who needed better wifi at home.

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.

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 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 design Cons: Price, takes quite some tinkering on user end to optimize setup, subscription based services Special 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 fast If 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.

Not sure why this doesn’t have 5 stars from everyone! Got the three device set up and man this couldn’t have been easier to set up. This system is bomb, like I’m not sure how much easier of a setup people even want. Everything was basically plug-and-play, and the app walks you through it so smoothly it almost feels too easy. Performance-wise, it’s been amazing. The coverage is solid throughout the whole house, and the speeds are not just fast—they’re consistent everywhere on Wi-Fi, not just when you’re hardwired. I haven’t had any random drops or dead zones like I used to deal with. Compared to the Cox gateway, it’s not even close. They charge $15 a month to rent that thing and it doesn’t hold a candle to this setup—honestly kind of ridiculous. And the quality? Top tier. It honestly feels like an Apple product. From the packaging to the devices themselves, even the cords and the app—everything just feels super polished and premium. I’m actually glad Amazon acquired eero because you can see that level of refinement in the whole experience. My only complaint is the price tag. $400 is definitely not cheap. But when you break it down, Cox charges $15 a month to rent their gateway—that’s $180 a year. In just about two years, this system basically pays for itself, and you’re getting way better performance the whole time. Overall, 110% happy with this purchase.

This review is on the EEPRO 6E tri-band mesh. I'm not a network novice so after my bad experience I wanted to warn people away from this product. In my 25 years working in technology infrastructure I've acquired experience, network certifications, etc believe me when I claim I'm not stupid. I live in a three floor house on an acre lot so have little external signal penetration into my home. All rooms I wired with Cat6 for gigabit ethernet. My internet service is 1Gb; from the wire I speed test at 800 Mbps down and the same upload. No one in my family wants to plug in anymore so we all rely on three independent wireless routers connected by wire and bridged into the network: a netgear nighthawk (2,4Ghz and 5Ghz bands) on floor two, a Verizon gigabit router (2,4Ghz and 5Ghz bands) on floor three and an apple extreme (2.4Ghz band ) on floor one in the basement. From my apple phone (12 pro) I consistently get 550Mbps download and 300-400 upload except on the basement router where my office is. I wanted a mesh to improve signal handoff and for my office to get the same as the rest of the house. I picked this one because I read good things and the price was discounted compared to the orbi which at $2,000 I just could not bring myself to buy. The installation of the first node was easy (connect to the wire and run the app) on the second floor, the second node complained it was out of reach on floor 1 (directly under node one & connected to the ethernet wire). After two attempts to find it, it worked. The third one was a nightmare. Tried putting it on the other side of the house and connect to ethernet and just would not pickup. I had to bring it one room away from node one before it picked up. Job done? Well the first day I had 450 Mbps download and 400 upload everywhere. Thinking I was happy. Next day, "Dad we have no wifi!". My wife tells me she was dropping connections from her laptop all day within 20 feet of node 2. I thought ok I'll reset the system. Re-input all their devices with fresh connections. That worked for 24 hours. Next day, I'm sitting in the room with node2 and it affect me; 1Mbps download .01 Mbps upload. I renew my connection, no fix. Reset the system and back to 450 Mbps. I check any firmware updates, nope all current. I thought maybe the node below #2 was too close, so moved it an additional 15 feet away to lessen any signal cancellation. Next day,"Honey why did you buy this, it slower and worse than our old system?'. Yep it's time to return. So the old network went back in and all iphones and macbooks are happy again. Here is the worst part, the return. I initiate the return, pack it all nice and find out I can't drop it off at the UPS store. Why? Because Amazon will only process the return if they pickup from my home. Ugg, but fine. Here is where it goes downhill...you have to wait for a phone call from the carrier to arrange a pickup. After a week of waiting for a call and answering numerous telemarketer garbage calls, I decided to call back customer service and find another way because I have to travel for work and can't wait at my house for a phone call. The only other way - is to pay for shipping yourself. So um why can a return label or QR code be processed for anything else but not this product. Very Dodgey. Do yourself a favor and pick another system or maybe the mesh is just not worth it. PS. I did find out that the system ( even though it has a 2.5Mbps network port) is rated as one of the slower systems when it works. I could never get it as fast as my existing netgear with is over 2 years old.

Amazon Eero Pro 6E Mesh Wi-Fi Router We recently moved into a new home and needed wifi throughout the house. The house is super old with really thick floors and walls, and we were concerned about signal strength. We chose the Eero system for a few reasons and we've been really happy with it. One: It's incredibly easy to setup. You follow the instructions to plug in the Eero, then download and register the app on your phone, then you're done! The extenders are equally easy to use; you just plug them in and register them in the phone app. Need to plug something (like a printer) directly into the network because it doesn't have a wifi card? The Eero has a single ethernet output port on the back and you can plug a printer directly into that or (even better!) plug in a switch (we use the NetGear 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch GS608) to the Eero and use that as an extension bridge to take on multiple ethernet lines. And I know all that might sound complicated but it is really SO EASY to set all this up. Plug-and-play! Two: It's so good at juggling network traffic. Eero maintains two networks--a 2.4 GHz and a 5 GHz--rolled up as one and manages what needs to be on the 2.4 (Echo/Alexa and most "smart" devices) and what needs to be on the 5 (everything else, like your laptops and televisions). Eero also juggles which items need to be using the main Eero device and which need to be on the extenders you may choose to scatter throughout the house. You do not have to manage ANY of that; the Eero does it all automatically and seamlessly. Three: The app is gorgeous and so easy to use. It gives you a little notification when something new joins the network and you can rename it (like "Echo-Bedroom" or "Laptop-Husband") and categorize what type the device is (Security Camera, Laptop, Tablet, and so on). You can block items from the device if you need to. You can create a special guest network and password for your guests to use. You can see your download and upload speeds in case you want to check whether you're getting what you paid for from your carrier. Four: The signal we get from the Eero is super strong! I don't regret buying the extenders, but I'm not sure we needed more than the one we put out in the (detached) garage. I would recommend buying and setting up the base Eero first and then buying the extenders later if you decide you need them. You can add the extenders at any time without disrupting the network setup--you literally just plug them in and walk away!--so there's no need to buy them upfront until you're sure you need them. ~ Ana Mardoll

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!