eero - eero Pro 7

Spectrum has new mesh extenders coming out in a month or two. Outside of that, pods are usually fine. An eero mesh system would be my recommendation if you're going to buy your own.

Eero is very greedy on trying to maximize its own performance at the expense of everything else. It works ok if there aren't any other APs (ie neighbors) nearby, but it sucks ass if you live in dense housing.

100% spend the $ to get it ethernet done to each wifi point. I am a big fan of Eero wifi units if going wireless or Google if going wired btw. Google wifi uses the 6e wifi as wireless backhaul witch seems to have issues over 2 floors

Eero is a mesh wifi system. As you aren't gaming in the office, use an extra eero AP in between the laundry room and the office to get full house coverage

I'd forget about the Telstra part completely. You can plug the NTD directly into an Eero and then either use the other available ports to connect to the ports in the garage, or throw in a Netgear port switch between the Eero and the garage connection ports. Wire the rest as per your thoughts. You don't need a modem with NBN NTD.

Amazon eero have been great for me

I have 4 Eeros and all have Ethernet backhauls Recommended

Don't waste time with the pods. Invest in a mesh system. Eero or orbi. WiFi 6, 6+, 6e, or 7. 6e and 7 will give you 6g, 5g, and 2.4g. 6 and 6+ only give 2.4 and 5. All will get you a Gig. Don't shove them in corners of the house. Spread them out but in more centralized location.

Eero. At this point I think software is just as if not more important than hardware as long as we're comparing hardware apples to apples. Eero has a very very nice and easy to use app that satisfies most people's requirements in networking.

Absolutely best solution would be to hard wire a couple of wifi 7 access points. Easier option would be a mesh system- my main suggestion here is to get wifi 7 to future proof yourself and the appropriate mesh units. It will prob be in the $3-$400 range but you'll be good for a long time. If you ever upgrade your speed or get a fiber connection- you'll appreciate that your setup is more than ready for it. Other advice- don't cheap out. You get what you pay for. Stay away from the budget TP-link options. Eero is probably the easiest to setup. Also- Costco does good deals on quality mesh systems. Check them out if you have a membership

Have Eero, not the best but it does the job. I've put too much money into it to want to swap it out. To make this more broad, definitely agree with a wireless mesh system. I don't have any Ethernet ports and only have a coax in the worst possible place. Our house has 2 remote workers, 4 gaming computers and multiple other devices, like TVs, tablets and smart appliances. No issues at all!

This is anecdata, but I for one have an Eero mesh wifi system, and a number of Sonos speakers, and things have been pretty stable for me over the past year. The app has had problems, to be sure, but "can't detect the speakers" and such hasn't been a problem here, though I know it has affected lots of other folks. From skimming posts here, there seems to be a pattern that things have generally been stable for other Eero users, too, though I'm sure exceptions to that must exist.

I use Eero and it works beautifully. Speeds and coverage are excellent

White it would take time and someone's cooperation, swapping out someone else's EERO equipment might be at least a fun test. Like I say I'm no pro on the technology but I have personally sequentially upgraded EERO generations thrice no with nothing but outstanding results compared to my 'traditional' WiFi networks and have had personal knowledge of 3 other parties who became EERO fans real quick in our traditional American Homes - designed just a tad too spread out for effective non EERO WiFi. Based on what's represented it definitely seems more like a hardware failure/setup failure settings type issue. Once again, this is just because of my experience with EERO having cured all my WiFi woes. I'm no expert, I'm just a real happy customer. Happy enough that I upgraded twice more or less because I was so happy.

Nerd stickler - mesh is Wi-Fi back haul. If it's wired backhaul, it's not mesh. That said, with mesh if the APs can't get good wireless signals between themselves, you'll have a crummy experience. Were it me, it get something that can do wired backhaul OR mesh (which are most things... Eero, Orbi, etc). Try power line for backhaul. If it works, great. If it doesn't return it and fall back to mesh.

Eero for the remote accessibility.

Essentially the same here but added on to increase sampling size : )

Eero is going to be a bit spendy in comparison to TP Link. [This TP Link is around $160](https://a.co/d/8VPQ1au) I have the AC1900 Deco which is more around $120 but not as good. I bought that a couple years ago.

I would recommend a wireless mesh system. I had Orbi in a 2400 sq ft 3 level home (1 router, 2 satellite units) and Eero in a 2 story 3100 sq ft home (1 router, 1 satellite unit).

Eero is pretty dum dum proof

I have an iPhone, Apple TVs, iPad and two MacBooks on Eero and they are getting fantastic speeds

Option A. For a similar size space- I have a MT router with WiFi in my main area. 2 decos top floor. Mesh 2nd floor 1 Deco( area isn't used much) Lowest floor 2 Decos. Option B. Eeros same layout Option C. If you have hard wired runs then an ubiquitous system. Depending on budget Omada would be low end, ubiquity mid range and upper range Ruckus, Juniper, cambium, etc. I'm a Ruckus fan myself. If speed isn't a concern you can get older AC R510 or 610 with max speed close to a Gig from these, for a good price from eBay. Set them with unleashed firmware and you are good to go. Remember mesh hops create a power loss of 50% each. So if you have 100 at the main floor, the 4th floor will be 12.5. Hope this helps.

If you have to wireless mesh, eero is really good in my experience. Setup is painless and it just works, I've only had to reset my network maybe once or twice in the last few years. As others mentioned, if you can do wired backhaul then that'd be ideal.

If wifi speeds are far lower than you expect with three Max 7s, remove one of the Max 7s and retest speeds after a few minutes. I ran into this problem years ago trying to use three Pro 6s over two stories and 2200 sq feet. I removed one of the 6s and wifi speeds went through the roof again. I'm using two Pro 7s now in the same home and experiencing the best speeds and coverage ever. I'm quite happy now my Orbi 752 satellite decided to die three months ago which made me revisit eero ;-)

Get eero or Tplink, you'll be fine. I went through 2 Google mesh systems and now leave them alone. BTW you don't need the wifi 7 or even 6E. Save some money unless you have Gigabit internet, then go crazy.

Based on my experience with cheap and more expensive EERO setups I wonder if your Xbox is somehow sick. Not an XBOX guy and have no idea if possible but if you haven't A/Bed it with known source, its worth a try. How does a tablet, phone or laptop show speed at same location? Sorry - Probably all stuff you've thought of and done.

Same experience. Initially worked fine, after series of updates and deprecation of the original Google wifi app, just downhill from there. Random dropouts of one of the nodes, poorer bandwidth than before. Some speculated heat issues over time but mine were sitting in the open. In any case, replaced with Eeros and we're back to normal and zero hiccups.

There are so many variable it's not that easy lol. But, it usually comes down to the router provided by Verizon just being crap. If you're not too technically inclined, the best option is to get a mesh wifi system like eero or google wifi mesh etc. It's likely a combination of the shitty router + just a busy RF environment.

Spectrum customer here. I use the modem they supply and an eero mesh WiFi system. Very happy family with good and reliable WiFi throughout the house.

I just bought a two pack of eero 7 Pros and found it took three days before best channel assignment took place moving me from channel 36 to 100. The difference in speeds for all devices was incredible. I went from 300mbps to 680 (80 mbps over my Spectrum plan thanks to over provisioning) and I can now view live 2K feeds on our security cams without pixilation all while two other devices are streaming movies (the Orbi system it replaced couldn't handle that). Definitely give it at least three days before judging performance.

If it's a 1BR apartment, it wouldn't be any better. But you said house - if it's a 2-story 4BR with a basement rec room, and you want to use it in the back yard, then you're gonna want more than 1 access point, Eero or otherwise. And in general, if you can reasonably wire the backhaul, do it. It's generally faster and more consistent and less prone to interference from other electronics than a wireless connection. You said you can't really do that now, but know that with multiple Eeros, they don't all have to be wired. If you have 3 Eeros, you can wire two of them together even if you can't wire in the third one yet\*. They will communicate via the fastest and most consistent connection they have with each other, be it wired or wireless. \* This is exactly my current setup. Cable modem and an Eero in the central part of the main house. In the apartment (next door, not a different floor), another one with a wired connection through the shared basement. Third one is out in the backyard she-shed, connected wirelessly. This setup provides a strong wifi connection throughout the whole house and back yard. Which isn't very large - about a half acre.

This is what I wanted to do. But alas, the handover between the eero's was incredibly slow. Both worked independently and seemed to work fine in bridged mode, but the mesh part was crap. If using them in their separate rooms, as 2 independent WiFi units, fine. If having them as mesh, as previously mentioned, one needs to be upstream.

Amazon eero have been great for me

I've been very happy with eero, but if I were to do it today, I'd pick the new tp-link WiFi 7 mesh system.

Working 100% fine on my Eero mesh network.

Just noticed my 7 Pros changed channels for the second time this week (from 36 to 100 to 128). We live in a cluster home development and right now I'm seeing all bars showing on 31 nearby networks in our neighborhood. Looks like my eeros are getting the job done surpassing our speed plan even with all the surrounding RF noise.

If they can't get a cable, have them do a mesh device. Turn the WiFi off on the router, and add a 2 or 3 mesh system like eero. I use TP-Link Deco myself. You hardware 1 to the router and put the other 1 or 2 strategically where you have power only.

Eero can do a decent job if you are absolutely against wiring in access points. Just temper your expectations. The access points that are furthest away from the gateway will have slower speeds than the access points that are closer to the gateway. Your house's type of construction will also play role in performance.

I had Eero at my last place and all was well. Now, same hardware at the new place and I get the same thing on my Google Home (although the Minis seem to stay connected).

I sold my asus 68 and went eero. Sold the eero and a month later went to a asus 88 rx pro. For me and my old house, the single asus had better range and perf than the mesh. So my single asus that hasn't had a firmware release in like 6 months continues to chug along. Maybe we are getting to the point now where upgrading doesn't get you much