Amazon eero 7 dual-band mesh Wi-Fi 7 router (newest model) – Supports internet plans up to 2.5 Gbps, Coverage up to 6,000 sq. ft., 3-pack

Dependable performance and simple setup
High quality, easy setup. This mesh WiFi system does not have a bunch of deep customization options, but for a dependable, set and forget system, this one is great. I started with two eeros – one for my main router and one in my living room (our house is about 2500 sq. feet). I had Ethernet cabling in my living room, so was able to hard wire connect the 2nd eero to the main one. I recently bought one more eero for our den. The den had pretty weak wireless connectivity and the TV in there kept buffering when streaming. After installing the 3rd eero wirelessly, the TV no longer buffers and WiFi speeds are pretty decent. Adding the 3rd eero was super simple and took literally around 5 minutes. Highly recommend for dependable performance and simple setup.

The basic eeros seem to be the best eeros.
This new eero 7 gives me the raw speed of eero Pro 6 without the incessant latency spikes, and it does so much more efficiently. Using the Wi-Fi heavily doesn’t raise the radio business way high into the busy range in the eero app analytics, unlike with eero Pro 6 which would, because the eero 7 uses less than 15w, whereas the eero Pro 6 came with a brick for over 40w. This is important especially for smaller weirder homes like mine, it’s a split-level layout that always had range and dead spot issues with a single router, so using an eero 6 (non-Pro) 3-Pack was a game changer, while the eero Pro 6 was so overpowered that I had to use MoCa backhaul lest the radios constantly overpower each other making the Wi-Fi nigh unusable.The eero 7 is seemingly the first proper successor to the basic low-power 6, keeping it actually usable in any home while upping the speed significantly.Another important factor in the basic eero 7’s favor is that this entry level model is the high-selling face of the eero brand, while my eero Pro 6 had a strange ongoing issue with repeated hitches every few seconds when doing local network game streaming over the Wi-Fi at any speed over 40mbps, such an issue would be easier to detect and fix on the basic eeros because by having so many more units out in peoples hands they’d get a lot more real-world data and reports about obscure issues to know about and fix them, and they have more incentive to do so because such issues existing in the basic eeros more people have would be much more damaging to the eero brand.It’s not flawless, while I no longer have to limit my local network game streaming speed to 40mbps to avoid constant latency spike hitches, it will still hitch very occasionally, but given I have a LOT of devices connected I don’t really blame it.So that’s the nitty-gritty of why I chose this router and why I’m feeling good with keeping it, now some of the basics that are common to all eeros and why I chose to stick with eero even after a not so great experience with the Pro 6 are, it’s super reliable and easy to use, controlling everything in the app works well, the app is well designed, and I like the eero Plus subscription that gives some extra features (Detailed analytics, network-level ad and threat blocking, dynamic dns), and also includes a 1Password family plan, MalwareBytes Premium for 20 devices, and Guardian VPN, which works well but can only be used on mobile through the eero app, or on macOS or Windows with Guardian’s own app, there is no access for a guardian mobile to share access to the VPN without giving access to the eero settings, nor is there an Apple TV or Fire TV client like PIA VPN has. The ability to assign devices to a profile and pause the Wi-Fi for that profile is really slick, but devices that can change mac address can bypass it and unfortunately there’s no way to automatically block unknown mac addresses from connecting. The setup is really good too, setting up a new network in the app is easy and simple, as is replacing eeros in an existing eero network, that’s really one of the great bits, that when you replace your eeros you can keep the exact same network with all your devices still connecting as if nothing changed.The best part really is the set it and forget nature of eero, it auto-updates overnight and it seems to do so pretty intelligently as it has never kicked me off when I’m using it, and it works really well, the network comes back up automatically and it’s as if nothing happened the next morning, it’s seriously robust, and that robustness and the reliability is really felt, even in the event of a neighborhood wide internet outage eero Plus lets you use your phone’s hotspot to keep the network going.

Great product, although getting it started up was not seamless
Really nice software (once up and running) with the longest support cycle of any manufacturer- get this in 2025 and you shouldn’t need a new router for security reasons until at least 2033 and hopefully longer. So much better than the netgear stuff I had to replace just because software support ended way too soon. Also has solid connectivity and sqm for load management and good warranty support. You do need to enable sqm, which is stupidly off by default.The other dumb thing was the setup sequence. Router went green and then the app threw a completely useless message saying “something went wrong” and saying contact support, which was just a link to a useless faq page. I figured it out on my own- you need to power down the modem and router for 10 minutes to reset the mac address for your isp, as the modem determines your ip address from your router for some reason. After that and enabling sqm, rock solid performance and great range and clear software messaging about status.5 stars as the good here definitely outweighs the bad. Just have your wits about you during setup.