eero Pro 6 Wi-Fi 6 units are currently 20% off on Amazon. Not the cheapest it's been, but a reasonable discount for anyone in the market for a mesh router.
eero Pro 6 1 Pack $351
eero Pro 6 3 Pack $799
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I suppose if you can take advantage of the gigabit speeds and need the extended range, it may be worth it. Most people would probably not notice the difference with the normal cheaper eero though.
From what I could see online the Pro has a better range as well which was the main reason for me getting one. I'm keen to just have one unit do my relatively small house than go the mesh option with multiple.
Just a heads up, if such things are important to you, on eero routers you need a subscription to access parental controls and some other generally basic security settings (from memory it's like $50 a year), which made it a no-buy for me.
Yeah, great point. I'm not keen for that stuff yet, but imagine it would be useful in the future.
Any reason why?
how do these compare to rt-ax3000 in aimesh
Contemplating getting a dedicated mesh or buy 2 D-Link Wi-Fi routers which can be used like a mesh as well. Anyone sees any advantage of 1 over the other. I know I can't use 2 routers as Mesh with TP-Link Archer. But a friend had this setup with 2 D-Link routers, and the 2 routers connected via Ethernet.
If the Dlinks can be setup in a mesh configuration there may not be a lot of difference other than ease of use / configuration.
I swapped out my gear for TP-Link M9's last year and haven't looked back, super easy to setup and configure, you can basically have it up and running in about 10 minutes from unboxing. Also no need for an ethernet backhaul or anything.
I don't understand these unless you got gigabit nbn.
I've got 3x M5's in a 270m2 2-story all brick and concrete house with ethernet back haul. Every corner of every room, including the additional outdoors areas get rock solid 100mbs.
Heavy LAN loads, file transfers, quick access to NAS hard drives, etc are good use cases
I guess in my case every single static item that uses the internet in the house is connected via Ethernet, through a series of gigabit switches and the gigabit backhaul on the M5's. Fair enough if you're using WiFi for that.
That's my setup at home, cables and switches everywhere.
Is the Pro version useful to the general consumer? It doesn't see worth the extra cost. Particularly given that if you buy something for less than $300 that you can tax deduct the portion that you use for work (i.e. if one of the units feeds WiFi to your WFH area) in a single year.