eero (Amazon) - Eero Max 7

I am in the minority here: but I'm super disappointed in mine. Coming from Eero Max 7. Best speeds I can get from it are 850/800. Eero maxes out my gigabit connection. And the range comparatively is also bad. Upstairs on my eero with my laptop on wifi 700 I can still damn near max out my gigabit. The dream machine itself barely gives me 300. So I thought: ok, 4x4 on 6ghz isn't fair vs 2x2. So I direct wired an Wall AP7 upstairs in the same room I test from... and at best I can get 650/600 on 6ghx/Wifi 7. I think I'm giving up and returning the Unifi equipment. I ABSOLUTELY HATE the eero and that I'm limited to an app for it and no real control. But I can't give up 30% performance even with dedicated AP's upstairs and downstairs. :(

Are you able to test your Wifi 7 speeds? Mine are slow as all hell. Like 150-300 down. My Eero max 7 pegs it at my provider speed of a gigabit. Overall all my wifi speeds seem way less than my Eero. I hate Eero and their app only control on it.... but I can't justify 25% of the wifi speeds just to have control.

I've been using mine with fiber internet for a year and it has worked flawlessly the entire time

I upgraded both of my houses to eero Max 7s and they are great. I WFH and my son games, so I was fine spending the extra money. I used to be able to tell if I was connected to gateway or one of the other nodes. Now, the wireless back haul is so fast, every place the connectivity is great.

My relative got several eero 7 max routers from her internet provider. They were very easy to set up (you do need to set up an account) and extremely fast. But they are very expensive!

Ha well the eero 7 max is awesome but I don’t know if I would buy it at $600 retail for each one. They got 3 for free from their internet provider!

I have the BGW 320-505 in passthrough mode with firewall and packet filters disabled that’s hardwired to 3 eero max 7’s with zero issues. I have a new 2 story 2,900 sq. Ft. with 95 devices.

I have 3 Cam2 Pro’s, 2 S3 Pro’s, 1 S330, and 1 E340 Doorbell with 1 Homebase 3. My WiFi is 3 eero Max 7’s and I haven’t had any issues

The Max 7 has no separate satellite by design. Only other Max 7 (or lower) to use as a satellite. You'll likely be OK with a single Max 7 for that space, and the drywall will be better for signal penetration than if you mentioned concrete, brick, etc. The radios in the Max 7 are far superior to the Pro 7 (range & link quality to clients), you get better options with the Max 7 regarding Ethernet ports for future use, and a single Max 7 is better than two Pro 7 with competing spectrum & added hops for clients on paper. Whatever you decide, make sure to place the gateway unit as high up in the room as possible without looking out of place, to avoid solid object interference.

Eero max 7 is honestly overkill. Unless you think you’d someday have 10Gbps internet. Something like the pro7 is the sweet spot in the eero range. I’m hoping that some of the ISPs start to sell them soon as you can often get them way cheaper through them than a retailer. But right now they’re all still stocking the eero 6+ or the Pro 6e which are a generation behind. There’s a lot more options than the eeros of course. It’s just that eeros are pretty good value for money when you get them via the provider.

The eero mesh system is pretty foolproof and great for users who don’t want to tinker. I highly recommend it for people who just want to plug their router in and forget it exists and maybe expand their mesh network as they need.

I've been on Eero for a number of years now upgrading to Max7's a year ago and its been rock solid for me and impressive throughput.

I've been super pleased with my Eero Max 7 based network that I've had over a year now.

I've been testing the Eero lineup against other competitors. The Max's are great but not that much better than the Pros. A lot of your performance will be up to capabilities of your client devices. Other comments about channel optimization are completely valid, Eero along with some others out there take a day or two to optimize their channel selection. It doesn't set a good impression on day one but gets better over time. Pricing wise I'd never spend what they're asking from retail on my own home network, but then again I'm spoiled from getting lots of free stuff working in the industry. The reality is, I haven't come across many situations where WiFi speeds are actually the root cause of issues on a given application in the home. Throughput testing is fun for easy bragging rights but I believe consistency and reliability are the most important parts of a good home wifi. Believe it or not, most high priced enterprise grade equipment will yield lower throughput tests than the retail home stuff, for good reason. They're tuned to service large numbers of clients with consistency, over servicing a few clients with truckloads of data. The reasoning behind this is, at a high level, if the CEOs web conference isn't silky smooth, nobody's gonna give a damn if it takes 5 extra minutes for a giant download to complete. They're tuned to deliver consistent and stable service as a priority, not drag race. Eero's new lineup has some of the best chips available in the industry, but IMO its overpriced. I do think performance will get better over time as newer clients become available and get better at using OFDMA(WiFi 6) and MLO(WiFi 7). 6GHz is a great addition but it's unfortunate that its optional for anything branded WiFi7, not mandatory. It's also at a disadvantage now with being locked in low power mode until we get a proper AFC system in place. That will allow them to unlock and operate at roughly twice the power levels they're limited to today in most scenarios. Making those extreme wide 320MHz channels work at higher rates through more walls. Sorry I got a little carried away there, dont know where I was headed 😅

Depending on your type of walls, you might get away with just 2 nodes. Eero Max 7 is one of the best mesh networks you'll get, if you have money to burn. Rtings list of best mesh routers has it as an honorable mention because of price, but they say "eero Max 7: The eero Max 7 is the best-performing router we've tested. It's a Wi-Fi 7 mesh router that's incredibly fast and maintains gigabit speeds nearly 100 feet away. However, we don't recommend it because it's incredibly expensive, and the TP-Link Deco BE63 delivers enough range and performance for most people." https://www.rtings.com/router/reviews/best/wifi-router It's stupid expensive, and configuration options aren't great (though that could be a good thing if you don't want to tinker and rather have it just work). They're also owned by Amazon (which I personally count as a negative, but that's subjective) and have a subscription for advanced things. But if you want speed and stability, it's a good option. The other option would be Firewalla AP7 https://firewalla.com/products/firewalla-ap7 Though it requires that you also have a firewalla firewall device(which is a great device, firewalla is fantastic). I would also caution against Asus routers. Their security is awful. Just this year they had a vulnerability with Ai cloud where your router could be hijacked and become part of a botnet https://youtu.be/7mKbH2-eLEg?si=3Pq0_glWNFOeOagK TP-link is even worse, with constant buffer overflow exploits that keep cropping up, even on new models. You can search the cve database for TP-link buffer overflow and see how it's something that's been affecting their routers for years https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=TP-link+buffer+overflow