Speeds are quick – no doubt – but not quite as fast as expected and the features aren’t particularly comprehensive. The markers indicate the test positions, and the signal strength at each.Īt this price, much is expected of a mesh Wi-Fi system and it’s hard not to be slightly disappointed by the Eero Pro 6. A scale of yellow/green shows good signal strength running to dark blue which represents a weak signal. NetSpot Android app, then imported into NetSpot Pro on Windows. Again, no details are available beyond the graphics.īelow is a coverage map, created with the After setting up the system, the signal icons initially showed as relatively low in the app, but since then have reported full strength. Mesh Wi-Fi systems tend to struggle because of various metal beams in the house, but the Eero 6 Pros did better than most. The second node was placed roughly in the middle of the house, and the third in a corner room upstairs that I use as a home office. The Eero Pro 6 may not be the absolute fastest Wi-Fi 6 mesh system, but it’ll feel like a major upgrade if you’re coming from a single ISP router or even an older Wi-Fi 5 dual-band mesh system.įor testing, I set up the first node in the corner of my home, plugged into a BT Smart Hub 2 router. You’d rightly expect great performance at this price, and in some ways you get it. But there are also separate Blocked and Allowed lists where you can manually grant and deny access to specific websites.Īd blocking can also be enabled universally for all connected devices, not just your kids’, and Eero Secure also includes router-level security to help prevent malware infecting any connected device by blocking access to dangerous websites, historical usage data, so you can see how much data has been downloaded, how many threats have been blocked, how many scans performed and how many content filters applied. When using web filtering, there are four categories: Pre-school, Pre-teen, Teenager and Adult. It’s not as good as using Qustodio or Apple Screen time to block apps on the devices themselves, and it doesn’t let you block apps at certain times: you either block them for a specific profile or don’t. Blocking is achieved by preventing access to all known domains (web services and websites) that are associated with that app. You can then enable explicit content filters (for websites) and block apps. You need to first give permission in the Alexa app for each device that can be controlled in this way. With Eero being an Amazon company and there being integration with Alexa, once you’ve enabled the Eero skill in the Alexa app you can ask Alexa (on your phone or Echo speaker) to turn the guest Wi-Fi network on and off, pause Wi-Fi on specific devices (requires Eero Secure) and also find things, such as phones. Thread support will likely come into its own when products using the new Matter smart home standard become commonplace. You can use Thread and Zigbee simultaneously, though. There’s also support for Thread devices, such as smart locks, fans, thermostats and others, but this is disabled by default. That allows you to control compatible lights, plugs, switches and other gadgets in the Alexa app and by speaking to Alexa.Įffectively, there’s the same device support as you get with the smart hub built into certain Amazon Echo and Echo Show devices. With a Zigbee hub built into each Eero Pro 6 router, you can easily connect Zigbee devices to Alexa.
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