eero Outdoor 7

This is incredibly misleading. The signal penetration and range of the Eero Max 7 and Eero Outdoor 7 are dogshit compared to the UniFi U7 Pro and XG lineup. Compare them one after the other in the same topology / env. The U7 Pro Wall I run consistently provides better signal range and wall penetration than the Eero Max 7 it replaced, albeit only 1200 Mbps on 6E vs 1400 on the Max. The U7 XGS (similar price range) blows it out of the water entirely in speeds and signal. MLO tops 3 Gbps on U7 XGS, 6 GHz 6E peaks at 1600 Mbps. If we're talking the same retail price, you'd be able to get an E7 and there's just no comparison in performance to an Eero Max 7 from that. The U7 Pro Outdoor provides VASTLY better range on 5 and 6 GHz than the Eero Outdoor 7 I had deployed. 1200+ Mbps vs 900 Max. Almost double the 5 and 6 GHz range with AFC. Oh but I forget... The Eero Outdoor doesn't even provide 6 GHz or AFC. And the U7 Pro Outdoor is also cheaper at only $279 vs $400+ retail. And neither is a full router.

You're basically hearing none of the bad. I swear this subreddit is astroturfed by Amazon. They work great, until they push a major firmware regression and then you're stuck until they roll it back or you waste hours debugging it and hope to get in touch with TS that can roll you back. In my case, I didn't wait after a major regression that brought my WiFi network to its knees, and switched at that point. Just know this: firmware updates are compulsory. You can't easily roll them back when there's a major bug. 2 Max should be fine. I had 2 Max 7 and 2 Outdoor 7 and the bug brought down my whole wireless back haul to the single remote AP to a crawl, while forcing most of my WiFi devices over to that AP even though it provided the farthest and worst signal. Complete shit show. As a technologist, not being able to resolve that myself by rolling back is a no go.

Are you getting hourly interruptions on the dot in gaming and Zoom calls and similar real-time activities? I was. Nothing fixed it. No matter what, I got a big lag and packet loss spike every 59-60 ish min on the dot even fully wired in from end to end. Worse on Satellite-connected Wi-Fi devices. [https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/1itakgy/orbi\_770\_intermittent\_packet\_loss/](https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/1itakgy/orbi_770_intermittent_packet_loss/) I gave up, went to Eero, they had massive firmware regressions and no way to roll back, then I switched everything to UniFi. No regrets. Even their Early Access releases are way more stable than anything from Netgear. And they iterate updates and fixes so quickly. It's impressive.

I've used Netgear Orbi, Eero, and Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi 7 systems all long term. If you want an excellent ecosystem all behind one very sleek pane of glass WITH better performance and reliability and control than the other stuff, just get UniFi. The only caveat is lack of a dedicated wireless backhaul channel but this is often inconsequential because of better range and overall bandwidth. If you want to set it and forget it and have tolerance when a forced botched firmware update is pushed with no rollback option, consider Eero.

It's completely ignorant. With the better range and speeds on my UniFi APs versus the Eero and Orbi Wi-Fi 7 stuff I ran before, my mesh performance on the one AP I don't have hard wired is BETTER despite having no dedicated backhaul channel / SSID. The link speed is higher, actual throughput to the AP is higher as tested from it itself and Ethernet bridged devices, and Wi-Fi clients have better speeds. I feel like people haven't really tried the competition... I did long-term, and they suck ass. From absolutely unworkable bugs to flaky performance, there's nothing I miss about either Orbi or Eero.

The best case is to get the Max 7s and then run Ethernet between them where you can, but that is optional and you can use mesh. The only thing the PoE stuff adds is a different way to power it and form factor. Technically you could run only power over PoE and it would just mesh, but that would be a waste of ethernet. The only PoE ones I use are the outdoor ones because I don’t have an issue placing eeros around and I like the flexibility of not requiring PoE. Another use case is you can have an eero that connects to the network over mesh, but you can Ethernet devices to them and the devices will use the eero as a wifi bridge. This means any device connected to a Eero 7 Max via Ethernet and using the mesh does get the full benefit of the extra radios. I like this option because the less devices you have connected to WiFi the more free the airwaves are for devices that must use WiFi.

Eero 7 line if you want set and forget, otherwise Ubiquiti POE Unifi Pros are on sale for today only left if you are tech savvy

I have an Eero system with one WiFi 7 unit and the rest 6E. They work flawlessly for me. I love that you can mix and match devices. No problem 

I haven’t used the max but have used the 0to 7s on a fiber connection at a gigabit and works great, much better then previous meh system