eero Pro 6E

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?

Eero is epic. I've got the 6E Pro, they also give you a mesh network for home automation. The latency is extremely impressive, as is the throughput.

Since I've had Sonos gear in my house, I've run three mesh wifi routers: a Netgear Orbi, a Tp-Link XE-75 Pro and now a Eero 6E. By far the Eero has been the easiest, most stable and most reliable of the bunch. The TP-Link was absolute garbage and nothing but a headache for the 6 months I had it.

Not sure what the BB rep is smoking -- those are routers. Also, FFS right on the product page it says: "Integrated modem: no"

Routers route packets from the internet to the devices on the network.  In consumer routers, they also perform NAT so all your devices can share a single IP address that your ISP gives you. Modems convert whatever underlying WAN signaling into ethernet (Modulator/Demodulator).  The fiber equivalent is an ONT or Optical Network Terminal) which coverts the fiber optic(light) signals into ethernet. And an access point bridges your wired Ethernet network to WiFi. Devices can perform one or more of those roles, and many times those roles can be enabled or disabled in the admin page.  This is where a lot of the confusion comes from.  Many ISP supplied routers also are modems and access points for example. And practically every consumer router available is also an access point.  But not every access point sold is a router. In the case of the EERO, one of the nodes will be both a router and an access point, and the other nodes will just be access points.  None of them will be a modem or ONT because it doesn't have any ports other than Ethernet, so there's nothing for it to convert.

As was mentioned, I think you’d be fine and happy with the eero Pro 6E.

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.