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?

The Eero eco system is pretty rock solid. I had an Eero 6E Pro with a 6 Pro doing mesh on a 1250sq ft apartment and never had an issue. I recently upgraded to a Dream Router 7 because I wanted to separate the IoT devices and have a network running on a VPN and it's been great. Eero is great but somewhat limited which is why I upgraded to the UDR7.

You will not have advantage of 2gb fiber connection with 6e. Even if you connect 6e to isp with 2.5gb port, second port is only 1gb. I recommend hardwire all mesh nodes if it's possible. Unlikely that nodes able to handle more then 500-800 wireless connection for a long time

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.