It's designed to plug directly into an outlet – it turns out many people, Weaver says, positioned their 1st-gen models in places wires might be in-conducive to safety, like corridors or stairs – and even has a sly motivator for you to keep it out and visible. Inside, there's dual-band WiFi, Thread, and Bluetooth support. There's also a new eero Beacon, half the size but promising around 30-percent more power than the original router. The 2nd-gen eero is only half of the equation, however. That's something eero believes its new routers will address, opening the floodgates in the process. While the primary use for the technology might currently be device-to-device intercommunication, according to the eero CEO that's mainly because nobody has wanted to make a dedicated bridge yet. Thread connections all use IPv6, and they're all encrypted by default. Why Thread, and not other existing IoT standards like ZigBee or Z-Wave? According to Weaver, it again comes down to security and convenience. That rating puts it in the middle of the pack of tri-band Wi-Fi 6 mesh. There's triband WiFi – adding a second 5 GHz radio – with support for broadcasting on all three wireless bands simultaneously indeed, eero claims it's potentially twice as fast, wirelessly, as the 1st-gen router. The Eero Pro 6 is rated as an AX4200 system, which is an obtuse way of describing what its peak networking speeds are. ![]() Completely rebuilt with all-new hardware, eero says the new router is more than twice as powerful as its predecessor. ![]() On the back, there are two gigabit ethernet ports – they can auto-detect whether they're plugged into your modem, or a networked device – but power is now supplied via a USB-C port. It sticks with the external industrial design of the old model, a vaguely-pillowy white box, though the silver eero logo is now raised. I sat down with Nick Weaver, eero CEO and co-founder, to find out more.įamiliar, at least from the outside, is the new 2nd-generation eero. What's eero to do? Turns out, the answer to that is not only develop two new router models, complete with entirely new hardware, but begin the evolution of eero as an ecosystem and platform, an OS for the whole home.
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