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I'm hopeful this is as solid as the video makes it look. All the points it covers - forgotten passwords, bad coverage, troublesome initial configuration, no eas
by rndmize 12y ago
I'm hopeful this is as solid as the video makes it look. All the points it covers - forgotten passwords, bad coverage, troublesome initial configuration, no easy way to extend a network - are things I've seen people choke on.
I don't really agree with the negativity here; sure it probably doesn't do as much as ubiquiti gear or dd-wrt or whatever, and it may cost more, but I think for the average person these are far outweighed by the "throw another box at it" simplicity.
- MichaelApproved 12y agoPlus, the "cost" of a device is more than what you pay at the store. For many people non-technical people, it includes hiring an IT guy to help them get it setup, spending hours on the phone with support or hours Googling for help. Even if you're a technical person, your time might be more valuable than futzing around with a router. A lot of people are willing to pay a premium for something that just works.
- fpgaminer 12y agoThe tech community is plagued by a fear of the new and unknown. I've seen it time and time again, and it really baffles me. Anyway, yeah these sound neat. I hope more than anything, though, that they have secure firmware. One of the biggest problems faced by the average home is vulnerable router firmware, leaving millions of routers open to exploit for various nefarious purposes.
- hristov 12y agoNo need to be baffled. The start-up graveyards are full of companies that have promised a mesh wireless system and have failed miserably. It is not fear of the unknown, it is a very healthy skepticism towards unsubstantiated marketing claims. Or, in other words -- it is fear of the vaporware. If it all works as advertised, this would be great. But there is no reason to believe these ambitious marketing claims before there is actual product on the shelves.
- lunixbochs 12y agoI really like this. Executed properly, it will solve WiFi issues for medium to large in-home deployments. I think the killer angle is the ease of setup and configurability. The most important tech here to me is the fact it promises to self-update and try its hardest to never stop working. If their marketing is accurate, I'd recommend this in any simple deployment requiring more than one router. (Say, throw it in your parent's large house and trust it will just keep working over time) That said, a current-gen AirPort Express or Extreme covers many of the points here. - You can set it up in seconds from your phone, if you have an iPhone. (Otherwise, you're stuck with OS X, Windows, or the Windows utility on WINE, though there are some okay open-source config utils). - It's going to be pretty much rock solid. They're very good about reacquiring network access, and the firmware is about the cleanest I've ever seen on a router from a technical perspective (the iCloud services are a bit weird, but those are optional). - You really only need one of them to serve single-level homes /apartments where they'll be punching through less than 5-6 walls. - It won't auto-update, but some might consider this a feature. - If you plug a second AirPort in, it asks if you want to extend the first network. That aside, the bandwidth reduction from a multihop mesh would likely make the Eero unsuitable for my needs (I tend to saturate AC, so I just throw more wired access points at the coverage problem to keep my bandwidth up).
- aidenn0 12y agoI lived in a 2 BR condo and couldn't get any AP that would cover all of it. The cable came in on one side of the condo, and I lost about 20dB to each wall; someone suggested from the age of construction that I might have wire-mesh in the plaster.