Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi

Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by lisper on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:23PM (#8991655)

If you're willing to do a little bit of configuration work you can accomplish the same thing with TPLink WR702N micro routers for $20 each.

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Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by cdawzrd on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:28PM (#8991704)

Well, not quite the same thing... the TP-Link product is 2.4GHz only, which is kind of a big deal these days. Support in DD-WRT and Tomato for 5GHz and 802.11ac protocols is somewhat shaky today (on some devices at least), but hopefully will improve.

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Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by lisper on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:58PM (#8991903)

Why is 5GHz a "big deal" rather than a "nice to have" (but no big deal if you don't)?

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Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by lunixbochs on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @01:10PM (#8991990)

2.4GHz has three non-overlapping channels. At max bandwidth, it has one non-overlapping channel.

5GHz has twenty-one non-overlapping channels.

In an apartment building, where you're pretty much guaranteed to be in close proximity of at least a few other active routers, 5GHz is a big deal.

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Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by aidenn0 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @01:24PM (#8992118)

Heck, I live in a detached home and have 14 visible networks from my living room.

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Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by lisper on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @01:25PM (#8992132)

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

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Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by mlrtime on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:26PM (#8991674)

Any details there? wrt or does it work out of the box?

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Re:Eero – Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi by weaves on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:39PM (#8991788)

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.

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