Kitting out your home with Wi-Fi 6E mesh routers and how you can become a YouTube star.

New eero Pro 6E proves how home mesh networks continue to improve

We’ve all got more devices in our homes using wireless connections to the interwebs. Mobile phones, game systems, smart speakers, tablets, streaming devices, smart TVs, thermostats, light bulbs …

When it comes to being happy at home, and not screaming at your siblings to get off the Wi-Fi because your professor keeps freezing during the lecture, there are two things to keep in mind.

The first is how many devices are connected to the network. The second is your distance from the main router.

Mesh networks are designed to help with both of these things, and they keep getting better. Take, for example, the two new mesh systems from Amazon’s Eero.

Both systems work on the new Wi-Fi 6E standard, which enables better wireless traffic in places where there are lots of devices connecting (“dense environments”).

The Eero Pro 6E is a tri-band device, which means it operates on three different wireless frequencies, and has been designed to support high-speed fibre internet connections.

The Eero 6+ operates on two wireless frequencies (dual-band) and can support gigabit internet connections.

These mesh systems are dead-easy to set up using a smartphone app, and they will connect to older Eero devices you might have. And they all work together to expand the mesh net that is created.

We’ve been using the Eero Pro 6E for a couple of weeks and are getting download speeds over Wi-Fi that rival what we get over a hard line. And as more devices that are in our homes support the Wi-Fi 6E standard, this system is the one that is more future proofed than others.

And with three Eero Pro 6E mesh routers, you can cover 6,000 square feet of real estate. When you move from one area to another, you get handed off seamlessly so you don’t suddenly get a dropped signal.

Eero also supports home automation, because each Eero device is also a smart home hub.

Eero Pro 6E is available in a three-pack for $999 and a single device is $429. This seems expensive, but is almost half as much as some other Wi-Fi 6E mesh systems available.

The Eero 6+ is available in a three-pack for $429 and a single device is $199.

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