After years of dealing with patchy wifi in a wide old house with solid walls, and having tried range extenders, a powerline network and a combination of the two, i decided that the time had come to change to mesh, despite the expense. I chose eero pro, partly because of reviews mentioning its ease of installation and partly because i noted that the units are thin and discrete. Our three-node system has now been in operation for 6 weeks and it’s brilliant. Because of working from home, numerous devices are in use simultaneously, but the system copes fine, with no slowing and above all no dead spots. Installation was indeed very easy, with just a bit of jiggling to get the best locations for the nodes. One call to the eero uk service desk to sort out a device that didn’t want to connect was answered promptly and the problem was sorted out efficiently and in a very friendly manner. My overall opinion: not cheap, but most mesh systems are pricey, and to me the eero pro system is worth every penny.
This router has replaced my google wifi router, which is pretty good. I have virgin media 200mb and the most i could get from the router was between 60 – 80, although the input measure what 210 but real life wifi speeds was nowhere near that. The eero is giving me over 200mb wifi speeds, i only have the one router so do not have a mesh network, i don’t need it though, this gives me consistently high speeds throughout my 2 bed home, even at the farthest away upstairs corner. The setup was so easy, the app talks you through this. I did try to set this up with the google wifi router plug but it flashed yellow meaning that it was an unsupported plug. Easy to fix, just use the plug that came with it, 2 minutes later i was up and running.
My virgin media did not provide enough coverage and had been using an wifi extender for many years ( along with two ssid’s. Also tried home plugs as well (what a waste of money). However, even with the extender, signal strength was weak in two of the back rooms. In addition, wifi dropped every so often for no reason. Seemless connection between router and devices, no buffering. I put router into modem mode and the using eero as router. I bought a pack of three thinking l would need this, but only needed two. Might just install third unit in the kitchen do that l can get good signal in the garden. The signal strength in each room is great. I had some initial teething issues, but their customer service is great (follow the instructions per the leaftlet and as directed by the app, for once the leaflet is a readable size and not in chinese or really bad english).
Have been trying for ages to get a decent wi-fi or powering adapter to work in our living room for the bt set top box and tv as this keeps dropping out with everything i’ve tried previously. The difficulty is that the bt line in and modem is stuck the other end of the house. Have tried numerous solutions and hours on the phone to bt with no improvement. Set up using the app was pretty painless took about 20mins. It was good at finding the best location. Have the triple set and that has covered the whole house two floors, four bed rooms and six rooms downstairs. Have bt fibre and getting 70mbps download speed constantly. Been using it now for about two weeks with no issues. The phone app is also intuitive and useful. I appreciate it is quite expensive although amazon had an introduction offer but at last the whole family can do/stream on line without me constantly being told “the wi-fi is rubbish do something daddy”.
Update (4/3/2020): i am now operating the eero pro in bridge mode. This means that my isp router is providing the network service and the management overhead is gone. If eero secure was available in the uk (it isn’t), this would stop it from working. It also disabled the recently made available homekit integration. I would still like eero to enable pppoe so that i can do away with homehub, but this is working nicely for me now (including sky q and bt tv). Good range, coverage, amazing speeds (250mbps on a 300mbps connection) and excellent mesh functionality. I also agree with other reviewers that browser based interface would be a nice feature addition. Most uk isps use pppoe to authenticate users to their network, this is commonly used by dsl which if you have an openreach connection you will be using. Eero does not support pppoe, which means you need to place it behind another router which leads to issues with nat (the translation that a router carries out between public (internet) and private (home network) addresses). This has stopped sky q from working in my house for on demand, but i have seen vastly improved wifi speed and coverage in a congested wifi area (3 story town house in city).
Features and Spesification
- Tri-band speeds: the eero Pro mesh Wi-Fi router connects to your existing modem to bring up to 160 sq.m of fast, reliable Wi-Fi to your home.
- Maximum flexibility: add to your coverage any time with eero’s straightforward, cross-compatible hardware.
- Works with your internet service provider: eero Pro connects with your modem to bring your existing internet connection to every corner of your home.
- Set up in minutes: the eero app walks you through setup and allows you to manage and control your network from anywhere.
- Professional-grade Wi-Fi: get the most from your Wi-Fi by streaming, gaming and working from anywhere in your home.
- Gets better over time: automatic updates keep your network safe and secure.
- TrueMesh technology: eero Pro intelligently routes traffic to avoid congestion, buffering and loss of connection.
