#Puts an eero router inside its pro

#Puts an eero router inside its pro

The Eero Pro 6E adds the brand new 6GHz band to your home Wi-Fi, providing more space for more devices on your network. All this means the Pro 6E has a slim target audience those with gigabit speeds and who have or might have 6GHz capable devices in the future.

If you’re running under 500mbps, the Eero 6 ($89 to $169) may be more your speed. If you have single gigabit speeds, you’ll want to look at the cheaper Eero 6 Plus ($139 to $299) - a new dual-band (without 6Ghz) gigabit system. So, if you have a multi-gigabit connection, you may want to consider a more powerful router. But, as the price reflects, the Eero Pro 6E is not a pro-level router while it supports incoming wired speeds up to 2.5Gbps, its wireless speeds top out at 1.3Gbps. This is also the first Eero to support faster than gigabit speeds, so if you have a multi-gigabit connection, you can actually use it.

While 6GHz devices are still few and far between, lots of devices can take advantage of the 160MHz channels, and I saw speed boosts on all devices, not just those that could use the new band. The overall increased speed is thanks to the new 6GHz Wi-Fi band and some extra 160MHz channels on the 5GHz band. But I also saw some network drop-offs, which Eero says is an issue around the Thread implementation - a key part of support for the coming smart home standard Matter that Eero has committed to. I saw significantly faster speeds over the previous generation Eero Pro 6 in my tests. As Eero’s latest top-of-the-line mesh Wi-Fi router, the tri-band Eero Pro 6E ($299 to $699) is another leap forward in home Wi-Fi for the company that popularized mesh Wi-Fi systems.