[sotojuan]

Hm, was going to purchase one because some of my favorite podcasts, Mac Power Users and ATP, rave about it. I'm not sure how I feel about Eero now.

I don't have any Amazon smart thing and not sure I want one.

[gonehome]

I got a bunch for my parents who have a pretty large house in western new york - they are just okay.

I'd recommend a Ubiquity Access Point, Ubiquity Security Gateway, and a Ubiquity Cloud Key instead. You could add one of their managed switches too if you need more network ports.

They work great, aren't that tough to set up and have better performance.

[furyg3]

Ubiquiti makes a consumer version which I've been using in my house for about two years (AmpliFi). It's quite good and what I recommend to non-techie friends.

[macNchz]

Ubiquiti makes really good stuff–I recently had a great experience setting it up for a 50-person office–but it's not necessarily a replacement for actual mesh wifi since you still need ethernet (and PoE) to hook them up.

My parents house is large, old, allergic to wifi and complicated to wire for ethernet...I set up a mesh network for them last year and it has been a revelation after years of terrible wifi.

[checker]

Technically you don't even need the cloud key if you're feeling cheap!

[hcurtiss]

After installing Ubiquiti products in my workplace and in my wife's parents' house, I put them in the new house we just built. Rock solid tech.

[monochromatic]

Do they do mesh wireless?

[eeeeeeeeeeeee]

Definitely conflicted. I setup my parents with a 3-pod one last year and it works great. I was replacing an aging Airport system.

I specifically avoided the Google one. And I would never buy an Amazon security camera.

[Analemma_]

If you want mesh networking without getting into the Amazon ecosystem, there's still Ubiquiti, which most reviewers claim is as good or better than eero for around the same price. Or you could buy an eero right now while they still have inventory of the non-Alexa'd versions.

[ocdtrekkie]

This is a bad idea, because they could include spyware in future security updates. It's entirely possible for them to backport antifeatures into existing products.

[msh]

Or amplifi which is ubiquitys product line for home users.

[wmf]

Buy it now before they add a microphone to it? But it may go on an incredible journey.

[MBCook]

Do you want them watching all your network traffic?

Not having a microphone doesn’t allay my fears.

[munk-a]

Amazon tends to ungracefully sunset products that don't support their current marketing needs, so it's not going to be like an early gen TiVo that just keeps doing it's thing, I'd assume by the time the acquisition has been announced Amazon already has their fingers all through the firmware.

[JohnFen]

> I'm not sure how I feel about Eero now.

I know how I feel about it: it ensures that I won't be buying anything from Eero.

[macintux]

I have the same qualms. It’s disappointing, I need something to replace my aging Airport infrastructure.

[tunesmith]

Yeah, I'm stuck with the same thoughts now. Eero was what I was going to use since they were independent. It's just that Airport is still currently good enough for my needs. There's Ubiquiti but it seems like configuration overkill.

[noir_lord]

Similar.

I’m deeply distrusting of big tech companies generally though.

[baroffoos]

Distrusting big companies in general makes sense. They only care about endless profit growth.

[yreg]

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