eero - Pro 6 Series

There really is no one Wifi router that will penetrate all walls and building materials and give you a giant bubble of Wifi. As far as signal strength goes, they are about the same. For the best experience on a budget and easy to set up, mesh is typically the go to, like Deco or Eero. Running a wire between the two or more for wired backhaul will make it even better better.

No reason to use an Archer if you want to use mesh anyway. Just use the Deco as your router as well for less devices, less cost, more streamlined. Deco or Eero are usually what I recommend for friends that want mesh.

I have 1gig service and with the eero pro 6 I was getting about 400meg to 500meg. Replaced with one eero 7 max and getting over 850 in some spots. I think the max 7 just has more throughput

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 does 500mbps over WiFi, it’s hands down one of the best and easiest to manage. After 6 years of using it for all my security cameras and IoT it’s basically pointless to run CAT cable throughout a house in today’s world. Most people don’t need Gig network running throughout a house, it’s irrelevant Anyone saying don’t do mesh is honestly an idiot. Most probably live in an apartment or small house or just have know clue what you need vs what you want. I have 3 wireless cameras on my deck, 2 on my garage, one on my door, 2 inside my home. Including the other random 70 devices throughout my basement (movie room), office (2nd floor) in a 3500sqft home and have literally zero issues, from stream live security streams, streaming movies, gaming doesn’t matter Zero reason to not have a mesh setup in 95% of setups… plan and simple Especially when you can do outdoor mesh setups with companies like Ubiquity but unless you need outdoor internet to throw it to a barn or something… most get the job done just fine, like eero

I have 4 Eeros and all have Ethernet backhauls Recommended

Mesh networking is the key. We have Sonic Fiber and Eero nodes around the house and it's awesome.

Yeah... the literal plug n play is worth a lot unless you're doing large data xfer for work or something. The second hand Eero repeaters are so cheap you can sprinkle them liberally too

I had a single original Google WiFi puck in a 2 bedroom apartment and loved it. When I bought a house in 2020 i upgraded to the Nest WiFi, basically what you have in the screenshot there. I was able to use my Google WiFi puck as a mesh AP and I had 3 pucks in the whole house. I did NOT use wired backhaul setup as it was not feasible and the throughput was absolutely awful. For context, I have gigabit from my ISP. With Nest WiFi I’d hardly ever get more than 100mbps on a single device regardless of how close I was to the puck. I replaced the whole system with a single Eero 6E and made no changes to my ISP/modem etc and now get 800mbps downloads on a 5ghz or 6ghz device with no loss of coverage in my home. In conclusion, switch to Eero or anything but Google. Google gave up on this product.

I’m so you think the eero 6e pro is a good choice? I have a few matter smart plugs and the new Apple TV that has thread and three HomePods and three minis, and two thread smart Schlage locks.

I went with the eero 6e pro. So far so good. Set up Was incredibly easy. But having a small issue setting up a couple smart devices. I got everything set up fairly simply. But I’m having trouble getting a smart plug with matter from Kasa hooked up to my HomeKit app as well as my Samsung sound bar. I’m figuring out I believe it has something to do with the smart plug and soundbar are on one band while my phone might be on the 6ghz band. Most of this stuff is over my head and I’m learning a lot as I go. I was wondering if you’ve come across something similar with your eero? I don’t know how to make so my phone can be on the same band as the devices. The smart plug and soundbar work fine in their native apps. And actually worked fine in Homekit with my old router. So it has to be something about the triband that my new eero network offers. Any of this make sense to you?

You are better off buying your own mesh network, Eero if you are don’t want to futz around, Ubiquity if you want to.

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.

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.

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 is the way to go.

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.

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.

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

If you want a DIY-friendly mesh that “just works” with Sonos most of the time, I’d look at eero Pro (tri-band) specifically—not the cheaper dual-band kits. Why eero Pro (tri-band) vs basic mesh: Tri-band systems have an extra radio, which helps reduce the “everyone fighting for airtime” problem you get with busy dual-band mesh setups. In real homes, that tends to mean fewer dropouts, smoother grouping, and better stability—especially when you’re moving around the house. Two practical paths depending on what you actually need: Whole-home Wi-Fi upgrade needed → eero Pro mesh Place 1 Pro as the main router and add Pro nodes where coverage drops off. If you can, use wired backhaul to any node (even one) for maximum stability. Wi-Fi is mostly fine, but Sonos is the only thing acting up → consider SonosNet If you have at least one Sonos device you can wire to the network, you can enable SonosNet (Sonos’ own mesh). It’s older and slowly being phased out for newer products/architectures, but in many installs it’s still a very reliable way to stabilize Sonos if your Wi-Fi environment is noisy or coverage is uneven. Quick question so recommendations are precise: Are you trying to fix whole-house Wi-Fi coverage, or is it mainly Sonos stability that’s the issue?

Eero does 500mbps over WiFi, it’s hands down one of the best and easiest to manage. After 6 years of using it for all my security cameras and IoT it’s basically pointless to run CAT cable throughout a house in today’s world. Most people don’t need Gig network running throughout a house, it’s irrelevant Anyone saying don’t do mesh is honestly an idiot. Most probably live in an apartment or small house or just have know clue what you need vs what you want. I have 3 wireless cameras on my deck, 2 on my garage, one on my door, 2 inside my home. Including the other random 70 devices throughout my basement (movie room), office (2nd floor) in a 3500sqft home and have literally zero issues, from stream live security streams, streaming movies, gaming doesn’t matter Zero reason to not have a mesh setup in 95% of setups… plan and simple Especially when you can do outdoor mesh setups with companies like Ubiquity but unless you need outdoor internet to throw it to a barn or something… most get the job done just fine, like eero

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.

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

Agree, the Eero 3-pack at my house, and the 3-pack at my parent’s house works flawlessly, but we are using wired connections between all of the Eero devices instead of relying on them to link together wirelessly. Linking them wirelessly just did not work reliably for me, and the speeds were poor. I’m using old coax connections with MOCA converters to turn the old coax into Ethernet connections.

Eero will never let you down. As long as you have wired backhaul between the access points.

I had a single original Google WiFi puck in a 2 bedroom apartment and loved it. When I bought a house in 2020 i upgraded to the Nest WiFi, basically what you have in the screenshot there. I was able to use my Google WiFi puck as a mesh AP and I had 3 pucks in the whole house. I did NOT use wired backhaul setup as it was not feasible and the throughput was absolutely awful. For context, I have gigabit from my ISP. With Nest WiFi I’d hardly ever get more than 100mbps on a single device regardless of how close I was to the puck. I replaced the whole system with a single Eero 6E and made no changes to my ISP/modem etc and now get 800mbps downloads on a 5ghz or 6ghz device with no loss of coverage in my home. In conclusion, switch to Eero or anything but Google. Google gave up on this product.

I went from 3x 6e pro to 2x 7 pro. The new setup is substantially better and I’m getting nearly hardwired speeds (I have 1gb down 40mb up) upstairs with my gateway downstairs and using wireless backhaul. Just my 2c.

Re-iterating what others have stated. They work great when you hardware each unit. I am not a fan of wireless backhaul. In theory it should work, but in reality I find them lacking. I have recently done a Deco install and an Eero install, hardwiring all units for both. It is sometimes cheaper to do it this way than buying APs to wire in. Just remember to have the "Main" mesh unit first in the chain. I usually go Internet Modem -> First Mesh Unit -> switch -> satellites.

I would recommend 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.

I went with the Eero 6E. 3 units cover my whole house and yard without issue (2700 ft2). I've got probably 50 smart home connections all running without issue. I did add one 2.4 ghz network extender to reach an outdoor generator that I was having issues with but probably didn't even need to do that (we later found out there was a faulty wifi module in the generator that was causing it to drop). To swap over my network I just ripped out the XE75 setup and set up the Eero with the exact same SSID name. Boom - every single thing in my house was up and running and I didn't have to reposition anything. It probably took me 10 minutes. I've been super happy with the switch. I'm not doing any crazy high performance network stuff, but I'm usually streaming 2 or 3 4K devices, running the whole Sonos system across the house, and working or gaming on 2 or 3 computers simultaneously with zero issues. Prior to my XE75 I had a Netgear Orbi setup (the original) and had more problems with that than I do with the Eero ... but nothing was as bad as the XE75. And the nice thing was I was unload the XE75 for 70% of what I paid via Facebook Marketplace.

Well that’s what we have wireless for. With good equipment and placement 99% of homes won’t need or care about all the technical details. My Eero system is my third generation and it is always faultless and able to handle whatever I’ve thrown at it no matter how many people are on it or what we’re doing. Never down and updates flawlessly.

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.

I have three pack in same size home using Eero 6 pro because I wanted coverage for my patio. Outstanding service but you can start with two and add another if needed.

Amazon eero have been great for me

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!

I pay for 300 down 22 up and I get every bit of it all around my house. In between devices I’m getting much more which in my opinion is much more important.

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 ;-)

Not everyone is a fan of Eero, but I am. Simple to setup. Then forget about. Works well with Apple devices and even cheap Matter over WiFi devices like Meross.  I’m happy with my setup and have been for years. 

Eero 6e with 3 nodes.

Working 100% fine on my Eero mesh network.

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.

I have been using Eero 6 Pros since soon after they came out. They have worked flawlessly for me since then. I fix computers for a living and have installed those units in more than 100 homes with no issues! I now have to buy them on eBay as Eero has discontinued them. But they have the best range and seem to virtually bulletproof. I have never seen anything is so easy to install and works so well. Also, I can buy the units for about $50 each on eBay and resell them for $$120-$160 each, plus my time at $160 an hour. And my customers are super happy!

Been using eero 6pro for years now never used hard wire backhaul.

We have a basic ASUS router with eero mesh, but in-office WiFi is still better. That’s one of the actual upsides of 3-4 day RTO.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Hoping a new pair of eero 7 Pros arriving this afternoon from Amazon see off my old RBK752 system after the RBS started having issues. I dusted off two eero 6 Pros I had in storage while waiting on the 7 Pros and I'm shocked at how good they are with the latest firmware. They support our 2K security cameras with zero pixilation now when scanning the yard in real time. My RBK752 didn't have the bandwidth to support that kind of stream.