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The Activity view lets you explore each client’s bandwidth usage and track the speed of your internet connection, while the Discover page lets you check in on any Amazon Echo devices on your network, and manage other smart home appliances courtesy of the Eero’s built-in Zigbee hub. Profiles can then be assigned to any device, although each device can only have a single profile applied to it.īuttons along the bottom of the app screen access other pages. Under each profile you can define one or more “scheduled pauses”, during which internet access is blocked. The home screen also lets you create and edit “profiles”, which are how the Eero manages parental controls. It helps, too, that the Eero doesn’t support any form of WPS, so there’s no way to connect without the passphrase, although this can make connecting clients a bit fiddly. This makes it all but impossible for an intruder to sneak onto your network without your knowledge. One feature I particularly like is the option to receive a notification on your phone whenever a new client connects for the first time. You can give them intuitive names and icons if you wish too, which is just as well, since the app sometimes shows only a cryptic hardware ID. Scroll down and you can browse connected clients and review ones that have recently been online. Once your network is running, the main screen of the app shows the status of your internet connection, and of your Eero nodes. Since the app links to your Amazon account, most people won’t even need to set up credentials just provide a name and passphrase for your network, and you’re away.

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Happily, this works seamlessly: once I’d plugged in my Eero 6 units, the app used Bluetooth to automatically detect and register them.

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To set up and manage your new mesh network you’ll have to use the mobile app on Android or iOS. The Eero platform doesn’t support web-based configuration. READ NEXT: Best laptops for students Eero 6 mesh Wi-Fi review: The Eero app With two nodes, this gives you the option of extending the signal for well over 30 metres in a straight line – or, of course, you can dot them around your home in whatever configuration helps reach the areas that most need a boost. The range of different colours can be a bit bamboozling but it means there’s no ambiguity as to what the Eero is trying to tell you.Īs for positioning, Amazon recommends that Eero 6 units should be placed no more than 15 metres apart. On top of each unit, a single multicoloured LED glows white to let you know that everything’s okay – or green, blue, yellow or red to indicate various conditions. While these systems can offer coverage comparable to a modern Wi-Fi 6 mesh, performance will naturally be slower. The BT Mini Whole Home WiFi does the job for a very reasonable £110 for the most basic network provision you can pay as little as £65 for the Tenda Nova MW3.

Never mind – we Brits have other options, including the user-friendly Netgear Orbi RBK752, currently available for £369, and the Asus ZenWiFi AX, which offers excellent performance and all the technical features you could want for £424.Ĭonversely, if you’re on a tight budget, you could step down to a Wi-Fi 5 mesh.

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The Eero, in fact, has a tri-band sibling called the Eero Pro 6, but for now it’s US-only, and hasn’t yet come to the UK. At this sort of price the obvious rival is the TP-Link Deco X20, another dual-band Wi-Fi 6 mesh that claims the same speeds and costs just £230 for a three-unit kit.įor the best mesh performance you could move up a more expensive tri-band system. If you only want a single extender, the cost drops to £219. We tested the Eero 6 triple-pack, which contains two extenders and costs £279. All radios support multi-user 2x2 MIMO, to help boost throughput when several clients are demanding data at once.Įero 6 mesh Wi-Fi review: Price and competition Each unit contains a 2.4GHz radio rated at up to 600Mbits/sec and a 5GHz one capable of connections at up to 1,200Mbits/sec. The Eero 6 is a dual-band 802.11ax mesh system. However, there are already plenty of Wi-Fi 6 meshes to choose from: does the Eero 6 stand out from the crowd, or is it a case of wireless meh? Eero 6 mesh Wi-Fi review: What you need to know The Eero platform also emphasises ease of use, with a friendly smartphone app putting all network monitoring and management options quite literally at your fingertips. (For those that don’t, the Eero 6 works perfectly well with Wi-Fi 5 devices, too.)

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That’s a big plus point – the newer wireless standard can provide double the speed of a legacy 802.11ac connection and almost every new phone and computer supports it. It’s almost identical, save for the fact that this latest model supports Wi-Fi 6. If you’re familiar with Amazon’s Eero mesh kit, the Eero 6 will hold few surprises.

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