Lesser routers and mesh gear makes sobbing noises if I try to bring them near it, or maybe that's just my imagination. That extension includes the original external brick wall between the office and the rest of the house, and it's the most effective way to kill Wi-Fi signal short of a power cut I've ever experienced. The other reason I use it for wireless testing is because my home office sits in an extension to the original property. That's my suburban Sydney home, a moderately large 4 bedroom house with a wide enough floorplan to test out most mesh systems. Still, 500Mbps is a nice healthy Internet speed, so to put that to the test, I set up the eero mesh 6 in the same location as every mesh network system we've tested to date here at Finder. Amazon does have a variant of the eero mesh 6 that can handle gigabit speeds, the eero mesh 6 pro, but it doesn't sell it here in Australia.
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You'll probably not see the full 1Gbps out of your NBN connection a great deal, but if you're spending up big to get it, the eero Mesh 6 will leave you wanting. One slight catch here for a smaller proportion of the Australian audience on FTTP NBN, and an even tinier slice of HFC, is that the top throughput of the eero mesh 6 tops out at 500Mbps, half that of a full NBN Home Ultrafast connection. Or at least, that's the promise of the eero mesh 6, same as any other mesh system. Indeed, once it's all set up all you should see is gloriously available Wi-Fi throughout your home or office. The Amazon eero mesh 6 is a Wi-Fi 6 ( 802.11ax/ac/n/g/b if you want to get technical about it) system operating on dual band 2.4Ghz/5Ghz, although in typical operation you won't see two distinct networks. Or in other words, go away, but politely. It's simply not supported, and if you try to access the network via the primary router's IP address on your local network, it'll tell you to get the apps to control eero mesh.
There is a subset that might find the eero mesh 6 a tad frustrating, and that's anyone who would prefer to use a web browser based set-up. However, you may need to get your ISP to kick out your existing connection so it can match up properly, and some ISPs may prefer you to keep their gear in the loop for support calls.Īmazon promises that the eero app offers "frustration-free" set-up, and for most consumers that will be absolutely true. If you're using an NBN connection based on FTTP or HFC, you don't even need an external ISP supplied modem, because the eero mesh 6 will happily accept an incoming ethernet connection from your NBN device on those connection types. Where I've hit issues in the past with slow firmware updates or twitchy mesh acceptance of far-away nodes, I had no such issues at all with the Amazon eero mesh 6. The process is well explained and pairing was fast, even in areas of my test set-up that usually encounter problems.
Set up an eero account, and walk through the set-up for the router node first of all, before adding in any additional extender nodes. I've got to hand it to the Amazon eero team though, because even though it's basically a standard, the eero app (iOS/Android) makes it amazingly simple to get up and running with the eero 6 system. Just about every single mesh networking system on the market today works from an app-led process, because it's the easiest way for everyday consumers to wrap their heads around network configuration.
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