Amazon eero Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi 6 system | Fast and reliable gigabit speeds | connect 75+ devices | Coverage up to 3,500 sq. ft. | 2-pack, 2020 release

Bought 2 of the EERO Pro 6 routers on sale for about $160 during the Oct 2022 two day sale. The units came in one day. Setup did not go exactly as planned as the EERO Pro 6 could not DHCP from Cox Cable. Easy work-a-round. Plug the EERO Pro 6 network cable into your EXISTING wifi box first. Then do the internet registering thing with the EERO app on your iphone or android. Then ONCE the app says you are all set - ie the blue dog is happy - THEN power down your cable or DSL modem and plug the EERO Pro 6 into that and it will be all fine. I cascaded TWO EERO Pro 6's. The first one is connected to the Cable modem. The second one is connected to the first one via a 500 foot ethernet wire. I can get LINE speed of 500Mbps close to the EERO PRO 6 on wifi and I can always get LINE speed of 500Mbps directly connected. I LOVE having one SSID in my house and a MESH network. Now you have what your employer uses for WIFI and you have this at home! You can carry your laptop on a Zoom call and it will not loose connection if you go all over the house or out to the pool. There is also Port Forwarding to get the VOIP phone working. This is super tech and a no brainer to buy. So what are you wanting for? Buy it. I upgraded from Netgear R6300 year 2013 Tech. Best idea ever. AND this works with the Alexa Gen 5 shipping Oct 20th 2020. The new Alexa Gen 5 will act as a WIFI hub and make the signal STRONGER. OK bye bye for nowAfter a week - now Friday Oct 21 2022Still very happy with the purchase of two EERO Pro 6 units.I have an iAQUALINK controller out at the pool - was about 60 feet from the old Netgear R6300 router running dd-wrt. 1/2 of the time using Alexa to control the Jandy iAQUALINK pool controller Alexa reported "Problem with the device. Please check power supply". With the EERO Pro 6 now in service no issues in a week now.I was able to change my subnet from 192.168.4.0 back to 192.168.1.1 using the mobile app.I was pretty annoyed having to change a custom Cisco VOIP phone I run from 192.168.1.0 network to 192.168.4.0 network. But I got it done.Then next day I found the subnet change in the EERO app under ADVANCED. I changed my subnet to192.168.1.0 and so happy now. Of course I had to change the phone setting back and asterisk VOIP software back and two raspberry PI linux computers back to 192.168.1.0 network.I have used 192.168.1.0 for probably 20 years. And so happy as muscle memory uses that IP address.Plus I have 20 VM's on VMware ESXi 6.7 which I DID NOT want to change to 192.168.4.0.SO I wasted about 4 hours changing some devices to 192.168.4.0 which was the default network provided by EERO Pro 6 but then changed it back to my original 192.168.1.0 subnet.Happy as a lark.One week of uptime - no issues at all.I have no where to put the EERO Pro 6 so it sits on the rug on the floor.Noted - the unit gets super HOT. This could be an issue in a HOT environment or in a hot server roomwhere the unit might exceed temp ratings of absolute limits of internal part and chip ratings and fail?So far so good.1 week of complete worry free connectivity.I did also use the Port Forwarding and did a port forward on ports 5060 and 5061 for TCPIP to raspberry PI running asterisk for VOIP phone. Also forwarded media UDP ports of 11000 to 59000 to the raspberry PI.I use allstarlink for ham radio stuff and was able to forward that port UDP I think it was port 4569 to a 2nd Raspberry PI.Net net is all works better than before even with the port forwarding I needed and the original subnet.The EERO Pro 6 came thru.And I had absolutely no issues after the initial firmware update on day 1.

For the longest time I've had to put up with poor Wi-Fi throughout the house. I have tried many different types of routers claiming that they will provide Wi-Fi throughout my house. I've just been disappointed over and over again. I even tried a different type of mesh Wi-Fi but not at all satisfied. The eero Pro 6 finally lives up to the promise of whole house high speed Wi-Fi. The setup is very easy, and was done in less than 5 minutes. I was not aware of the fact that there is an issue with these units being warmer than expected, and sometimes even described as being "hot". I found out after having it for a day that the units do indeed get warmer to the touch then I am comfortable with. I have a laser thermometer which told me the units I have were 105 degrees on the bottom, and 98 degrees on the top. I think over time having that much heat could possibly damage the piece of furniture that you have the unit sitting on. There should be a way to dissipate the heat , either by using a fan or additional venting . In the past I have used a small USB fan to keep an older router cool, and decided to try and use that. I basically set the eero on top of the fan, and after checking about 30 minutes later, the bottom of the unit was 92 degrees. These fans are extremely quiet and in fact I don't even think you'll know that they are on. This is the link for them on amazon.$11 and will fix the heat issue.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G059G86?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_detailsI had initially bought the two pack system, but i sent it back and got the three pack instead. The Wi-Fi was very fast upstairs, but just normal fast downstairs. I wanted it "very fast" downstairs as well.I have yet to find anyone who complains that their Wi-Fi is "too" fastI don't think you'll be disappointed with this system