#EERO VS APPLE AIRPORT FULL#

Or you could pick up Apple’s cheapest 2TB Time Capsule and a pair of Airport Express base stations for about $499, and get everything Eero offers and wireless backups for your Macs. The total is $250, half the price of three Eeros. For example, you could get the highly-rated TP-Link Archer C7 for about $90, and throw in a couple of range extenders for $80 apiece. That’s twice the price of many cheap but highly-rated routers available on Amazon. Eero is $199 for a single box, and $499 for a pack of three. However, this is only a problem if you can’t use your cellphone’s connection instead. If your home Internet is down, you might not be able to access the settings in the app. If your neighbor is using the same channel, it might cause interference.Įero relies on an internet connection to access its settings. It can’t hop around channels like other routers. There are a couple of quirks worth mentioning. So far, no glitches, stuttering, pixelated pictures, or the need to restart anything.

#EERO VS APPLE AIRPORT FULL#

There have been plenty of evenings when we’re running everything at full pelt - two Apple TVs streaming HD video, XBox games, music playing through Sonos, and simultaneous iCloud and Dropbox syncs running in both directions. Streaming the highest-quality 4K HD video only requires a 25 Mbps connection. That’s plenty of bandwidth for the whole house.

Wireless network speeds are tricky, depending on myriad factors like the modem’s speed and time of day, interference from neighbors’ networks, the number of devices connected and what they are up to.īut in general, the Eero network has maintained speeds of about 160 Mbps, with about 30 devices connected at any one time. When I was done, the app tested the network’s speed: a cool 220 Mbps down, and 12 Mbps up. Fixes and updates are pushed automatically from the cloud. The system is “self-fixing,” adjusting stuff like bandwidth and interference and adjusting itself automatically. And when I say controlled, I mean monitored. The network is controlled via the well-laid out app.

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