News Eero launches new Wi-Fi 7 mesh routers starting at $169

[Admin]

Eero's latest Wi-Fi 7 mesh routers get a steep price cut compared to the already-launched Eero Max 7

Eero launches new Wi-Fi 7 mesh routers starting at $169 : Read more

 

[bill001g]

What a scam. The key reason wifi6e and wifi7 can run faster is that they can use 160 or even 320mhz radio channel in the case if wifi7. You have massive issues using 160mhz radio bands on 5ghz and there is no way to run 320mhz.

They just want to pretend this is wifi7. Sure it might use the more dense data encodings but these tend to work very poorly if you are not in the same room as the router.

Not having support for the 6ghz radio band makes this almost telling a lie to call it wifi7.

 

[Blastomonas]

Who are Eero? Sounds like one of those Knock off companies on Amazon. The ones that sound like some Chinese dude got hold of an English dictionary and just mashed some random words together..

 

[txfeinbergs]

Who are Eero? Sounds like one of those Knock off companies on Amazon. The ones that sound like some Chinese dude got hold of an English dictionary and just mashed some random words together..

Eero has been around for over 10 years and was started as an independent AMERICAN company. Amazon did buy them out. You might want to do some research before making fact-lacking comments. Their products are very highly rated (and MUCH better than TP-Link which is pretty much crap and is a Chinese company).

 

[HideOut]

What a scam. The key reason wifi6e and wifi7 can run faster is that they can use 160 or even 320mhz radio channel in the case if wifi7. You have massive issues using 160mhz radio bands on 5ghz and there is no way to run 320mhz.

They just want to pretend this is wifi7. Sure it might use the more dense data encodings but these tend to work very poorly if you are not in the same room as the router.

Not having support for the 6ghz radio band makes this almost telling a lie to call it wifi7.

Yep, but if you click on the link toms hardware gets a cut!

At least the $299 one is more a real WiFi 7 setup. Finally not $700

 

[Blastomonas]

Eero has been around for over 10 years and was started as an independent AMERICAN company. Amazon did buy them out. You might want to do some research before making fact-lacking comments. Their products are very highly rated (and MUCH better than TP-Link which is pretty much crap and is a Chinese company).

Chill your beans. Twas a jest. However, they have very limited international recognition. They are no Netgear or Asus.

For the record, I wouldn't touch Tp-link.

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

What a scam. The key reason wifi6e and wifi7 can run faster is that they can use 160 or even 320mhz radio channel in the case if wifi7. You have massive issues using 160mhz radio bands on 5ghz and there is no way to run 320mhz.

They just want to pretend this is wifi7. Sure it might use the more dense data encodings but these tend to work very poorly if you are not in the same room as the router.

Not having support for the 6ghz radio band makes this almost telling a lie to call it wifi7.

The article clearly says the Eero Pro 7 is tri-band (2.4, 5, & 6GHz). Why do you say it doesn't have support for 6GHz?

 

[TJ Hooker]

The article clearly says the Eero Pro 7 is tri-band (2.4, 5, & 6GHz). Why do you say it doesn't have support for 6GHz?

Further down in the article:
"That’s where the Eero 7 comes in, with a starting price of just $169. Of course, there are plenty of compromises to achieve that low price. While the Eero Max 7 and Eero Pro 7 are tri-band solutions, the Eero 7 is a dual-band router (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz). You miss out on the performance-laced 6 GHz band [...]"

 

[bill001g]

The article clearly says the Eero Pro 7 is tri-band (2.4, 5, & 6GHz). Why do you say it doesn't have support for 6GHz?

This type of comment is exactly why I say it is a scam. They are intentionally deceptive advertising a low price but assuming people are not going to read the fine print. They see wifi7 and think all devices are that say that are the same.

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

This type of comment is exactly why I say it is a scam. They are intentionally deceptive advertising a low price but assuming people are not going to read the fine print. They see wifi7 and think all devices are that say that are the same.

Then you must have really been peeved at AT&T calling their 4G network "5Ge". 😱😉

Well, at least the dual-band model is priced the lowest. Those who might really care & actually need the
6GHz band, they'll know the difference between the base Eero 7 and the Pro/Max models. I do agree with you, though - I don't like it when companies add certain branding to devices that don't really have all of the specs.

 

[bill001g]

You would be surprised how many times I talked about the cell industry names. I think it was tmobile that started it. Everyone else was calling it 4g-lte advanced. ATT had actual 5G nodes and could easily do 1gbit but it did not penatrate walls. Nothing really new. Took many years before customers learned the difference between 4g and 4g-lte.

The problem with a dual band wifi7 router is you really should be comparing it to a wifi5 802.11ac router you can get for $50 now days. The key feature is the ability to run the wider radio bands which is almost impossible to do because of all the regulation on use of the restricted radio bands on 5ghz. So you basically run 80mhz radio band which is the same as wifi5.

Sure in theory you can use QAM4096 data encoding but it has even more issue than QAM1024 that wifi6 tried to use. It only really works in the same room.

So even though they call it a dual band wifi7 router what it really compares with in true function is a $50 wifi5 router.