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> If you want to plug it in and forget about it, eero is one of the best vendors for that kind of solution.

That has been our experience with a fleet of the original eeros and, for the past year or so, eero 6s. And that's in a relatively large urban home with many devices and lots of nearby networks. Our setup currently uses a wired backhaul, which helps with speed, but the wireless backhaul worked pretty well, too.

Also, for what it's worth, no hardware issues across the 8 or so eeros total (1st gen and 6) that we've had.

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I've been using consumer/home WIFI hardware pretty much from the time it was cheap enough that people started using it broadly (2001?). As the "computer guy" I've also dealt with so many brands I can't even remember them. If they are not garbage when you buy them, use it for a year until the warranty expires.

The Eero is the only wireless hardware I've purchased in my life that was easy to setup and doesn't need to be rebooted every month. Plus, all the pieces in the whole mesh are still working well after the warranty period is over.

I don't think I've had to regularly reboot any of my access points since before I got my first draft N device in...2007?

I'd love to say that I had some weird or crazy network and that was the cause. But it was all the usual stuff. 1 TV, a few phones, a few laptops, a printer, etc. Probably less than 15 devices, some of which were only occasionally active (e.g. printer) at any given time.

it doesn’t need to be rebooted every month because it automatically downloads and installs updates and forces a network reboot without a notification, warning, or the ability to schedule, defer, or opt out.

more than once now, i’ve been up late doing some work and had my whole network drop out without notice or explanation. it turned out to be from the eero doing a update. they say they do this because of liability from security vulnerabilities, or something, but it is supremely annoying.

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