eero - eero 6

I’m in a 1200 square foot townhome. I got one Eero 6 in my bedroom upstairs but in the living room downstairs I was getting around half the speeds. So I got another one for the living room.

I recently had issues with my Eero 6's having not working correctly with my work VPN. Seems to have been client steering. Not a big deal, but just addressing that like most things, they're not perfect in every situation.

EERO works great .

just get a 3 pack of eero 6 or 7. the first one acts as the router. if you can hook them all up via cat5/6 thats great. if not, these still work very well.

pick up an EERO and and another mesh point or 2 depending on the layout of the house

kind of a fast list you put together. eero 6 is still fantastic option for a larger 5ghz band if you dont have any new 6ghz devices. also, where is the 6e ?

EERO have deployed 100s with SONOS, works great, solid, no issues.

maybe I should ditch the 6+ gateway and go back to basic 6 for every device then?

Get it from Woot.com, which is an Amazon company, so they have official refurbs. Amazon also sells official refurbs. Right now Woot has some 6 expansion nodes (not 6 pro, so no wired backhaul), and some 5 kits, I think.

I second the Eero! I picked up the Eero 6 a while back and honestly the whole setup process was almost… suspiciously easy lol. The app basically walks you through everything and even my not-so-techy partner figured it out when I wasn’t home. Coverage has been solid, no more fighting for WiFi in the basement. 

Yeah, it was wild how simple it was. I kept waiting for something to go wrong but it just… didn’t! 😂 Even the firmware updates are all automatic, I barely have to think about it. I used to mess with those old WiFi extenders and man, they were such a pain compared to this.

Sure. The Deco does not have nearly as much engineering put into it as the Eero does. Eero has a bunch of unique (patented) technologies that make it work better in certain environments.

This won't work. If your modem is also a router and you have the eeros in bypass it will work, but not well. Modem -> Eero -> Switch -> Eero is the correct way. If your concern is the lack of multi gig ports on the Eero or the need to home run to a place where there is no need for an Eero, pick up a POE gateway.

The eero 6 can do better than that…

The biggest driver of newer Eero products being released is the approval of new WiFi standards, which support faster speeds, lower latency, and make meshing system like Eero perform significantly better. In 2016 when the OG Eero was introduced, the average internet speed in the US (according to ooma) was 39 Mbps. It has continued a steady increase in speed since then with more and more fiber being deployed and cable companies moving to newer standards like DOCSIS 3.1 or 4.0. In 2025, ooma reports a 214Mb/s average, which is greater than a 5x speed gain (on average) nationwide in less than 10 years. Verizon FIOS, for example, was advertising 100Mb symmetrical residential connections in 2016, and today they are deploying multi-gigabit symmetrical residential connections. There is no technical reason to expect that this rate of increase won't continue (it will slow down for sure), and this expected continued increase is taken in account with the following recommendations. Eero advertises a number of square feet that an individual Eero can cover, and while these numbers can help you compare the relative strength and capabilities of one Eero verses another, these numbers are not absolute facts that will apply in your home. A number of conditions affect the actual range of an individual Eero, including wall construction, gaps under doors, carpet vs hardwood, glass surfaces, proximity to other electronics and more. \*\* The following eeros are not recommended to buy in 2025: \-OG Eero (2016) \-All 2nd Generation Eeros (aka Eero 5, Introduced 2019) - this includes Eero Beacon, Eero 5, Eero 5 Pro - While all of these products had a reason for existing at one time, the slow processors, limited RF capabilities, and limited throughput make these not a good buy in 2025. \-Some 3rd Generation Eero (Eero 6, Eero 6+, Eero 6 Extender ) - Limited RAM, slow processors, mismatched Phy speeds, limited MIMO, and poor performance with modern software make these poor choices for new implementations and ideal candidates to be upgraded in existing networks. \-Eero 7 - The promise of Wifi 7 and low price make this a tempting choice, but the unit doesn't support TrueMesh 2.0, which is Eero's latest topology-management technology. These units are mostly usable in 2025, but they will not age well, which makes them a poor choice for long term value as homes are moving to symmetrical high speed connections. The Eero 7 is also the only indoor 7 series product that doesn't support 6Ghz connectivity. \*\* Recommended to buy in 2025, in order of performance (best to worse): Eero Max 7 - Tri Band, lots of RAM, lots of horsepower, 2 10 gig Ethernet ports, and 2 2.5 gig Ethernet Ports. 4x4 MIMO on 5Ghz and 6Ghz. This is an ideal gateway Eero and the best "mesh" product currently made by Eero. Eero POE Gateway - Eero has notoriously been picky about network switches and many Eeros have a seemingly 'sluggish' fabric inside them that you can't quite put your finger on. The engineers at Eero delivered the best switch they could design, and it has incredible throughput, POE for powering access points, cameras, phones (etc), and and has the smarts inside it to be the network gateway. When it was introduced, this was the highest horsepower product Eero made, although the Max 7 now gives it a run for it's money (but without POE). If you're considering an Outdoor Eero 7, Eero 6 POEs, or if your "wiring closet" is in a place where it's really stupid to put a wireless access point, this should be the center of your network. Eero Pro 7 - Limited by 2x2 MIMO, but has 6Ghz capability and a fast processor. This is a popular choice to use as a mesh node, or even as a gateway in smaller installations. It's quite a bit cheaper than the Max 7, but you get what you pay for. Eero Pro 6 - This is no longer manufactured, but can be found in the used market or sitting on pro installers shelves when they were bought up at the EOL sales. While these aren't great gateways, they have more RAM and faster processors than their other 6 series counterparts. These are still solid choices for mesh units, especially in lower traffic areas. Eero Outdoor 7 - Eeros first approved outdoor unit, this works surprisingly well. While it is capable of meshing, because of its 2x2 MIMO it works best when wired back to a gateway. Because it needs to be wired anyway to be powered via POE, it's not a far stretch to assume that most of these will be installed by professionals and hardwired to a POE gateway or a POE switch. Even powered via a POE injector, they will mesh like any other Eero. Eero 6e - This Eero isn't going to win any awards for raw speeds, but it is Eeros first entry into the 6Ghz spectrum. When it was announced, all the installers were 'encouraged' to take webinars where the Eero sales people talked endlessly about the empty spectrum and the incredible potential. Unfortunately, it's sort of worthless if you live near an airport, and its range is a bit more limited than anyone would like. But, like the Pro 6, these are really solid choices for mesh units. Eero POE 6 - Another Eero that isn't going to win any awards for raw speeds, but it is very rare for it to be used as a gateway. Because of this, the performance is considered acceptable in today's environment (and, well, there isn't a Wifi 7 POE Eero yet). It's worth pointing out that this product does not need to receive POE from the "WAN" connection, so it can function as the gateway and be powered by the LAN POE switch. This can be helpful in temporary setups, homes under construction/renovation, etc. If you are reading this text, my home network (outside the lab) are all POE 6s hardwired back to a POE gateway and the spouse has no complaints.

As several have stated, you can use practically any of the mesh brands, but don’t use the mesh feature. Instead use wired Ethernet backhaul to connect the satellite units to the main router. I’ve had good experiences with eero for this purpose. Super simple to administer and the speeds are great. I have 7 total units, all of them are eero 6 models, which were super cheap (~$70 each). Ubiquiti is like CrossFit.

I have a seven eero 6 units (non-pro) all hardwired in my house. They were dirt cheap when I bought them years ago and they’re even cheaper now. Amazing value. I don’t bother with eero’s subscription service. By having so many APs I get better performance than fewer, more expensive nodes. By hardwiring I don’t need the third radio and avoid dealing with mesh networking at all. I still haven’t gotten a Firewalla but I’m getting by using the Verizon router and have my eero setup as a double NAT behind it. I have my work computer hardwired to the Fios router’s 10G port as sort of like a separate VLAN/subnet from my home eero network. Everything works great and it cost me so little. I struggle to see the value in the complexity of Ubiquiti. I have yet to see a reason to upgrade to the more expensive eero models since I have 1 gigabit service and most of my clients don’t support Wi-Fi 7, much less 6 GHz. I’ve been thinking about getting the PoE gateway but it’s expensive and none of my eeros even support PoE. I just wish they offered more Ethernet ports on their cheaper models. Strangely that’s a Pro or Max feature for them even though all bargain basement routers gave 4 ports.

Most mesh systems take a few days to adjust and will move channels until it finds the best scenario. Netgear orbi’s do this as well as the eero systems. But once there fully optimized they should be set it and forget it and just work. Speed fluctuations are normal but I did find the eero did have less speed than my netgear with identical locations and settings. So I reset the eero from scratch and then the speed was where it needed to be. I believe it has something to do with firmware as I get the feeling the updates don’t always go well with some older firmware lingering after the upgrade. Reset seems to clear it out

Eero is a router it’s a mesh WiFi 6 system that replaces your existing WiFi it’s especially beneficial when your trying to expand your WiFi coverage in your space that’s what mesh systems do

spectrum provided routers are hot garbage buy a mesh wifi system do not buy an extender - they never work well moca/powerline adapters only sometimes work, often not worth the effort mesh wifi systems work well eero, deco, both work fine. There are other various brands, pick whatever has a good black friday sale and high reviews. you buy 2 or 3 of them in a kit as you get a discount for buying more you remove the spectrum wifi router 1 mesh unit plugs in where the spectrum router was the other mesh units use wifi, it's simple On the ps5 you could also try connecting to 2.4ghz if 5ghz is not stable. eero 6 3 pack is 140$ on sale right now on amazon tp deco 6 3 pack is 132$ on sale right now on amazon