We bought an Eero system (one primary, two “beacons”) when we bought our house and signed up with NextLight in 2018. We had some problems in the spring, so we upgraded our Eeros to two Eero 7 Pros. They’re great. Most devices are 2x faster just by swapping out our system. Eero is dead-simple to set up and there’s just about zero management.
Lol. I have a unifi setup in my house with a poe switch and 3 unifi APs: ac-lite, ac-pro, ac-hd. It used to be powered with a usg3p router until it died several years ago.
During the interim while I decided on a replacement router, I connected an old eero cupcake as the gateway router for my symmetric GB ftth service. With my network back up, I decided to buy a unifi udm-pro router.
Meanwhile, the old eero cupcake has performed so well I've never even opened the udm-pro box. I have zero complaints and love the simplicity and effectiveness of the eero cupcake. I've never noticed any loss of performance either. 🤷♂️
i got my first eero with superloop a few years ago and bought 2 more to fit in the house i was renting at the time. immediately loved it and wont ever go back to a non-mesh setup, and have used it everywhere since (moved to a few more different houses since then)
i had to leave one at my mums so i went on fb marketplace and bought an eero6 for pretty cheap, and works extremely well with the 1st gen node i have. recommended it to my friends and they seem happy with it. i’d recommend checking out fb marketplace or amazon for older gen’s as they still work really well
Yeah, I wish this was made clearer. And you’re sort of stuck if you can’t upgrade your router.
EERO has a router that’s bundled with the Ring security system, so it’s all literally one piece of hardware so I can’t get rid of my router without ditching the security system that otherwise works great for me.
It’s really kept me from playing because I don’t know if it’ll be a “good” or “bad” router day.
Eero is pretty good. it has both 2.4 and 5 ghz. mesh networking so you get super strong signal everywhere. including the bathrooms lol. easy to set up as seen here [https://youtu.be/ooGnTxTXmRg](https://youtu.be/ooGnTxTXmRg)
basically you need ethernet backhaul as mentioned
Eero is pretty good. it has both 2.4 and 5 ghz. mesh networking, with ethernet backhaul, so you get super strong signal everywhere. including the bathrooms lol. easy to set up as seen here [https://youtu.be/ooGnTxTXmRg](https://youtu.be/ooGnTxTXmRg)
Personally, I don't think the privacy fair is a big deal in the Asus. You don't actually have to use the AI protection (which is the trend micro part) and honestly you probably don't need to, given what you're describing. However, there may be sometime better:
"Not looking for poweruser/enterprise solutions, just something that works out of the box for heavy normie use."
Your use case is literally what Eero is made for. It's now owned by Amazon and just works out of the box--and works really well. The downside? You can't do very much power user/Enterprise things.
I have been struggling with Asus Wi-Fi for a few years and bought the Eero's on a black Friday sale to try. I get great signal strength everywhere I need it, and then some. I'm only frustrated with it, because I do need/want power user features. However I am debating just letting it be, because it works so well. You'll probably be ok with just one Eero unit, but you can always add super easily down the road, if you need to. With one LAN device, you're covered with one Eero. Any more on top of that, and you'll also need a cheap switch to add ports. Look at either the Eero 7 or Eero 7 Pro. Good luck!
If you're looking at mainstream consumer cameras, yes. Unifi had the added benefit of also being able to directly manage and save video feeds from prosumer cameras that can run locally. I'll also second that you don't need to worry about complexity with Unifi. It can be straightforward unless (or until someday you decide) you want more complexity. It will grow with you.
Edit to add that Eero is definitely the easiest to setup/deploy, but comes at a high price point with limitations that you may not like down the road. You can only temporarily restrict radio bands (2.4/5 GHz). You can't have more than one primary, and one guest network. You also have to pay for many security features or network monitoring features. With Unifi, you can start with perhaps their UDR7 as a combo gateway/access point, and expand with an many U7 Lites or similar, if you find you need more coverage. That might work out cheaper than the Eero, depending on what area you're trying to cover.
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