We've installed a hybrid network on the property of a working ranch, consisting of 4 eero Max 7s and an eero Outdoor 7. Three of the eero 7’s are wired, the rest of the eero devices are wireless mesh. It's only been running for 768 hours, but there's been no issues whatsoever.
The coverage is impressive, & the WAN is Gigabit, with little speed loss observed with modern Wi-Fi 7 devices (iPhone 16 & later) & Wi-Fi 6E devices (M3 MacBook Air & later). Older devices tend to connect at lower rates, which is expected for multiple reasons.
Not a lot of gaming is going on at the ranch, so I have no opinion on that specifically. But a fair amount of VoIP and video conferencing is going on, and multiple streaming TVs & security cameras on the network as well.
Another advantage of this site is that there are no competing networks in the vicinity taking up valuable Wi-Fi channels. In many ways, it's the perfect environment for the product.
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.
Well, when it comes to eero, they do have other systems that are a step above the one I mentioned which are the WiFi 7 based systems.
As far as it being the best in the world, really it’s all relative because everyone will have a different opinion but based on my personal experience with eero, it has been rock solid for me and it’s crazy simple to setup.
Literally after taking it out of the box, hooking it up plus downloading the eero app, you should be up and running in less than 10 minutes.
Go over to the Amazon website and type in eero.
Then just tap the link going to their website and you’ll see what I mentioned.
I have an office and family room in my house that has a solid line of sight from where the cable gateway comes into the house, but no easy way to cable up. Wifi 7 consumer routers like Eero utilize the 6Ghz band as part of backhaul, and the devices in the two rooms are all wired. With Wifi 7 in this arrangement, the latency and performance are still great.
Unifi doesn't use the 6GHz band for backhaul if you have to go wireless.
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