r/amazoneero

Edit: I meant 6e, not 6a 😂

Like the title says, we finally upgraded our system since the old one began having spotty connection occasionally. I was going to recycle or donate the old system, but while upgrading I realized the old system would theoretically work with the new one, and it made me wonder if it'd be worth holding onto to improve range and connectivity. Or would it mess things up having the slower/less reliable hardware on the new system?

I have a long (~60ft) narrow house. Internet connection is at one end of the house. We have been using 3 2nd-gen eeros, spaced in a line. With the 2nd 38 ft from the gateway and the 3rd 22 ft from the 2nd (and 60ft from the gateway). We just upgraded our fiber from 50 to 500 and ISP just sent us a new eero 6E. Most of us seemed to be doing just fine with the older system, except teenage son who is a gamer (his room is between the middle and far eeros).

Here are my questions:

1. Will the 2nd gen eeros work with the 6E as a gateway?

2. Should I replace the 2nd-gen eeros with two more 6E units? Would one more be enough? It looks like most things in my house are connecting through middle eero (even things in the same room as the far eero).

3. Should I pay someone to run cat-6 through the attic and walls so I can put the gateway 6e more centrally in the house? Could I get away with just one eero unit if I did this?

Anyone else have an issue like this? This happened around 4am local time. I sent of an email and will call later today. It’s not a huge issue but annoying enough that I have to fix their mistake.

I just bought a eero 6+ off ebay for 25 bucks. I want to know if its a steal or not a steal for the price because its a gigabit router but its also 4 years old, released in 2022

Bought 2 eero Max 7’s used off some dude on FB marketplace. They were both in perfect condition.

I feel like I got a great price. Might add a 3rd, but not sure I really need it. I had 3 eero pro’s that I replaced with these Max 7’s.

3,000 sq foot house. Only thing I’d like to improve at this point is my wifi outside in my back yard. It’s not bad, but not great. So maybe at some point I’ll add an outdoor unit.

I'm not very literate in these types of things, but I'm trying to learn. I'm curious if instead of buying an extender and a router node, I could buy two router nodes and have it work the same way? I'm asking because it seems the 6 extender does not have any ethernet ports on it but the router has two.

Hello. I recently switched to frontier fiber and it came with an eero 7 pro. We have a large home with lots of devices so I bought a two pack of Eero 7s to go with the main unit. Things were great for a few days until the 5ghz decided it wanted to use DFS channels exclusively and a wide 240mhz worth of it. Well a lot of my 5ghz devices stopped connecting and were forced to the much slower and crowded 2.4ghz.

I was able to reset the back and get it to re select a different channel and it worked for about another week. Then it did it again. So I called Eero and the only solution was to turn on a “compatibility” mode from their end which would restrict my 5ghz band. Well my devices are connecting again but now I’ve lost “band/client” steering and a lot of my devices are not connecting to the closest point and now it’s causing more issues because devices are now super sticky to the point they originally connect to.

Any advice would be appreciated I honestly feel like I just wasted $240 on devices that aren’t quite what I was expecting. I wish Eero support could lock in my 5ghz channel without taking away other modern features just as “client:band” steering.

I may have to call them and have them turn it off and just figure out a way to start hardwiring some of these 5ghz devices (Rokus/gaming systems). Super disappointed. I was impressed with the performance of the routers but the customization/support is severely lacking.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I have a Eero pro 6E (triband). I love it. But I need to add two more to extend my range -larger house. So now I’m thinking of buying the new Eero 7 (dual band) and getting the three pack. Now I know the Pro 6E uses the 6mhz band for to communicate with the other Eero Pro 6Es -if I choose to stay with what I have. But in a residential home, do I really need the triband? I have (maybe) 40 WiFi assets. Maybe the Pro triband series is only needed in a commercial environment?

Currently my eero network is connected via Wi-Fi. I get very good speeds close to gateway eero but much slower by other units. The gateway is a pro 6 and then I have a mix of pro 6 and 5. The gateway is connected to a switch in the loft but other Eeros are not wired to the switch yet. The gateway is not that close to router but is of course wired to it. I want to add another eero next to router. This will then be wired to original gateway. Does the connection to the switch have to come from gateway eero or can the original gateway remain as the supply to switch.
Hope that makes sense
Currently router - gateway - switch
New router- new gateway - old gateway - switch
Will this work ok?

After getting full fibre installed when I moved into my new place, I’m not getting that good WiFi signal throughout the property and I’m only in a one bedroom bungalow. I’ve been told that I should look at going mesh WiFi setup so was looking at the eero pro 7 router but heard due Vodafone it’s a night to setup… are there other mesh WiFi routers I should look at?? I’d like to get rid of Vodafone’s router.

So, we had 3 pack of units running for a while, then suddenly the main one in the closet that has wires throughout the house died. No lights. We went and grabbed another room one, and it was red of course due to it being down, and went to plug it in, and it never powered back up. No matter what plug or adapter we used. We had one more left and got it, and it powered up and is holding the house on one eero right now. Just can't reach to outdoor cameras well. eero support said too bad, buy a new one. It makes no sense how we lost two units like this suddenly when they were working! Does anyone else know or seen this? I will try to do a hard reset on them tomorrow, but per what she told me, she tried this already.

Hi. I’m not able to run Ethernet to my backyard. Is it worth using the outdoor? Would it be just another wireless node? It would be fairly difficult to get Ethernet outside. Thanks!

Reddit didn’t have the answer!

I live in a 3-story townhouse. Fios ONT is in the bottom floor and is connected to a Firewalla Gold. Office is on the middle floor. Had 3 Pros, one on each floor, operating in Bridge mode, connected wirelessly. Took advantage of the Prime Day deal and got a 3-pack of Pro 7s. I replaced all 3 Pros with the 3 new Pro 7s, all in the same locations.

It's been nothing but a headache.

Office computer is constantly switching between eeros and frequencies. Sometimes it connects to the basement @ 2.4 Ghz. Sometimes it connects to the upstairs @ 5 Ghz. Sometimes it connects to the one on the same floor (which is literally 10 feet away, unobstructed) @ 6 Ghz. Office computer is always changing and when it does, Teams calls often dump and I have to rejoin. All the other devices seem to be constantly switching as well.

Any idea what the heck is going on and how I get a stable and reliable network? It just seems NUTS that the 7 Pros are worse than the Pros!

I have a network of 3 eero 6 Pros. One is wired backhaul to the gateway and the other wireless. This week, I started noticing popups on my computers saying that the computer names are already in use on the network, and an ever-increasing number gets appended to the host name (e.g. Mac mini (873)). None of my devices actually have duplicate names but it is affecting everything from HomePods to my printer.

I have reset the computer names back to the original (e.g. Mac mini) but within a short time they get changed again. Restarting the network has not helped. Changing DNS settings did not help.

I am using the latest eero software 7.15.1. Before I call eero support, I am wondering if this happening to anyone else? TIA for any advice

I have likely the most common work laptop: the Lenovo Carbon X1 think pad.

I have many 6es throughout the house and I have an outdoor 7.

It is impossible to get the laptop to connect to the 7. I have even turned all 6es off and couldn’t get it to connect to the 7.

I am an attorney at a large firm that works with medical records so my computer has quite a bit of things on it I am sure I don’t understand. Except that when I called eero support, they said that my Lenovo couldn’t connect to a 7 because it doesn’t recognize the band and can only connect to the 6e. I can’t believe that is possible (most common laptop in america can’t connect to an outdoor 7?) and I must have misunderstood.

Has anyone else ran into this issue and/or have solutions?