Amazon-owned Eero is updating its mainline mesh routers with Wi-Fi 7 choices within the new Eero 7 and Eero Professional 7 which might be obtainable for preorder now forward of their launch on February twenty sixth. Pricing for the Eero 7 and Eero Professional 7 ranges from $169.99 and $299.99 for single routers to $349.99 and $699.99 for three-packs, respectively.
Eero says these routers can push wi-fi throughput of as much as 1.8Gbps (Eero 7) and three.9Gbps (Eero Professional 7) — if true, that’s greater than sufficient for many peoples’ hardwired web service. Like their Wi-Fi 6 and 6E predecessors, the 2 mesh techniques are primarily distinguished from one another by the variety of bands they’ve and the throughput of their ethernet ports. The cheaper Eero 7 is a dual-band router (2.4GHz and 5GHz) with two 2.5Gbps, self-configuring ethernet ports, whereas the Professional 7 provides a 6GHz band and twin 5Gbps ethernet ports.
These figures aren’t as spectacular because the numbers Eero claims for its first Wi-Fi 7 router, the Eero Max 7, however the brand new routers convey Wi-Fi 7-exclusive options that may nonetheless profit you even in the event you don’t have Wi-Fi 7 units, and at a a lot cheaper price than the Max 7’s virtually $1,360 three-pack value. These options promise to enhance the connection between wi-fi routers by combining a number of bands into one for greater throughput and extra stability (if one is congested or goes down, it’s nonetheless utilizing the opposite one), and providing 320MHz channel bandwidth on the 6GHz band, or double the 160MHz that was the utmost going again to Wi-Fi 5.
Eero VP of software program engineering Rowan Chakoumakos instructed The Verge in a briefing that each the Professional mannequin and commonplace Eero 7 can push as much as a 240MHz sign on the 5GHz band, one thing else that’s solely supported in Wi-Fi 7. Mainly, the wi-fi sign going to an Eero 7 or Professional 7 mesh router ought to have extra throughput than with older Eero techniques, to the advantage of even your older, non-Wi-Fi 7 smartphone, sport console, or laptop computer. It’ll even be a less expensive choice in the event you’ve thought-about the Eero Out of doors 7 however couldn’t convey your self to get the dear Eero Max 7 to combine it with.
Like their predecessors, the brand new Wi-Fi 7 routers work as good dwelling hubs for Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem, with Matter help, a Zigbee radio, and the power to behave as Thread Border Routers. They’re additionally backward suitable with all of Eero’s 10 years’ value of routers and work with Amazon good speaker units like Echo Dots with Eero mesh extender functionality and all older Wi-Fi requirements.
The discharge of those new routers brings Eero’s Wi-Fi 7 choices as much as 4, together with the out of doors Wi-Fi 7 router it introduced in October. The corporate says it can hold promoting the Eero 6, 6 Plus, and Professional 6E, every of which acquired a latest value drop that knocked round $20 off of costs that now vary between $89.99 for a single Eero 6 all the way in which as much as $549.99 for a three-pack of the Eero Professional 6E.
