An excuse to buy an eero system. DM me @nsweaves if you have questions...

It's awesome to see all the discussion here regarding eero and mesh networking as a whole!

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We have thousands of happy Apple customers. Plus, if you already use a Time Capsule for backing up your data or an Airport Express for Airplay, you can bridge these to an eero network so you can continue to use these features that may be essential to your current home network.

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Lack of Airport improvement was one of the biggest reasons why we started eero.

I was curious until I looked at your website and found that it's 1) US only and 2) requires not only a smartphone but a US phone number to set up.

I mean really, this is the kind of thing you can/should be able to log into from a web page, why does this all have to be locked behind an app?

That's precisely what we're doing at eero. We have engineers focused on each part of the stack (wireless firmware + drivers, core OS, application layer, mobile, cloud, and data) and are pouring our efforts into a single sku. It's time that people had the network they deserve...especially since they run our homes.

You can quickly flash the device with an OpenWRT build. Pushing an update to our site shortly that has some of the details. Look for the Developers tab soon.

@kalessin Nick the Co-founder and CEO of eero here. You're totally correct about 5 GHz - it doesn't get through walls particularly well. That's where having a distributed mesh versus one router is really helpful. By placing a few of our units through your home we're typically able to have 5GHz links between our devices and 5 GHz links out to clients.

Does each unit have 2 radios (e.g. 2x 5ghz radios)? Trunking and communicating with clients with one radio would give you less than half of the normal bandwidth, which is why lots of wireless meshes trunk on a different frequency (though I'd prefer the option of trunking via Ethernet). Unless wifi chipsets have become very clever in the past few years, it seems like this wouldn't allow max throughout.

Yes, we have 2 x 5 GHz. You can also use the gigabit ports as well.

The spec sheet claims "Dual WiFi radios" as well as "Simultaneous 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless". This tells me you're probably using a pair of dual-mode 2.4GHz/5GHz radios if you can act in dual-5GHz mode.

Assuming this radio setup:

Do you dedicate one of the radios to the mesh communication?

If so, does this mean you have a non-simultaneous dual-band 2.4/5 on the other radio for client devices?

Do you intelligently switch the mesh radio between 2.4GHz and 5GHz on a per-access point basis based on what gives the best ratio of packet loss to bandwidth to the surrounding mesh nodes?

How many antennas do you have per radio/band?

That's good to know. I don't feel like my original question was answered though: why the Eero repeater would get a better signal than another good WiFi solution at the same location? How do you get a strong signal to repeat from?

Any plans to power the device over Ethernet (PoE) for those with existing network infrastructure?

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Currently Exchange email only, but Gmail support is nearly done.