Amazon Brings Eero Mesh Wi-Fi To ISPs (zdnet.com) 28
Amazon's Eero mesh networking company is introducing Eero for Service Providers. "This is an all-new hardware and software offering designed to help internet service providers (ISPs) meet customers' increasing demands for exceptional home Wi-Fi," writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via ZDNet. "This is not just a bundling of a selection of Eero Wi-Fi mesh routers with your existing internet service. It also includes remote network management for your ISP and security and privacy management tools for you." From the report: The bundle starts, of course, with the routers. Besides offering Eero's existing whole-home mesh Wi-Fi systems to customers, ISPs will also get access to the all-new Eero 6 series. These come with Wi-Fi 6. This new Wi-Fi technology supports faster speeds and more simultaneously connected devices. Eero claims that this is its fastest Wi-Fi network yet. There are two models: Eero Pro 6 and Eero 6. These new devices also come with a built-in Zigbee smart home hub. This IEEE 802.15.4 personal-area network standard Internet of Things (IoT) hub lets you manage compatible IoT devices on your networks. This way you don't need a separate Zigbee hub.
For ISPs, Eero Insight builds on Eero's existing Remote Network Management software. This combines monitoring user history to predict and address customer problems before they change from annoyances to real problems. It also includes network monitoring tools such as a network topology viewer, historical speed tests and bandwidth usage, RF diagnostics, alerts, audit logs, outage detection, fleet analysis, and network health. For users, all this should mean a more reliable internet connection and that's always good news.
For ISPs, Eero Insight builds on Eero's existing Remote Network Management software. This combines monitoring user history to predict and address customer problems before they change from annoyances to real problems. It also includes network monitoring tools such as a network topology viewer, historical speed tests and bandwidth usage, RF diagnostics, alerts, audit logs, outage detection, fleet analysis, and network health. For users, all this should mean a more reliable internet connection and that's always good news.
no thanks (Score:5, Insightful)
The best way to do home wifi is to get as far away from anything your ISP offers as possible. I've now converted half a dozen friends and colleagues to pfsense/ubiquiti unifi combination.
some ISP force you to rent there gateway (Score:2)
some ISP force you to rent there gateway like
ATT
Comcast in some areas
https://www.xfinity.com/suppor... [xfinity.com]
Others
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Yea, but they can't stop you from disabling their wifi features and setting up your own actually secure one behind theirs.
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Even with AT&T you can use true bridge mode if you use Pfsense: https://github.com/MonkWho/pfa... [github.com]
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Don't they require handing over DHCP access to them for that? I'd rather keep my static configuration so some barely literate foreigner can't break it at 6am bi-weekly, thanks.
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Comcast also likes to turn on that public wifi hot (Score:2)
Comcast also likes to turn on that public wifi hot spot even after you trun it off.
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AT&T does also.
Definately no thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
ISP on my side of the network? Wow, that's great for privacy and security!
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Yea, my thoughts exactly. What they've invented is mesh networking with an insecurable corporate back-door. No thanks.
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And this one is a double whammy, since you're both picking up the ISP's device as well as an Amazon-owned one.
I bought a Nest Thermostat back before Google bought them out, and it went from being a plucky upstart with a rapidly advancing, frequently updated device to a stagnating product line that showed no meaningful movement for the better part of the next several years. Really, the biggest change since the buyout was when everyone got an email last year or so telling them that their Nest accounts would b
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It's a thermostat! Why exactly does it need new and more features every three weeks?
Because there are still so many more meaningful features that they could have, obviously.
Thermostats had been a stagnant product category for decades. Their industrial designs were dated, their user experiences were notoriously terrible, and there had been advancements in the last few decades that could enable significant improvements to their primary functionality. They were ripe for disruption.
Nest swooped in out of nowhere and started showing the industry all of the things that they should have been doin
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Which ones do you recommend for non technical users then?
When my ISP was charging for modems (Score:3)
I bought my own and in less than a year, it paid for itself. It took another 3 years before they started giving out "free modems" which were cheap and apparently die pretty often.
The only downside was that they changed the password and "managed it" for me.
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Get its cable modem without its router then.
"Exceptional home WiFi"? (Score:2)
WTF is that? Does it cook you dinner and walk your dog? Or is it just regular WiFi with a ton of marketing BS added?
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WTF is that? Does it cook you dinner and walk your dog? Or is it just regular WiFi with a ton of marketing BS added?
Even a great router gives crappy wifi when it has to compete with 30 other accesspoints for channels and bandwidth. The more people use mesh networking, the worse it'll get for everyone else.
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Lucky me, I'm buying my house, and friends and I wired it for internet years ago, even the patio - which came in handy when I turned most of the patio into an enclosed games room.
Wifi? Yeah, I have it, so my gaming buddies can connect their laptops every Friday night. Me? Ethernet all the way, thanks. Mobile uses data plan, doesn't use wifi either.
I'm sure that for many others wifi is all they can have, so... best wishes for them.
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A good mesh system can make things better for everyone. If you have a mesh system with an access point in short range and they use wired backhaul to reach the internet, then you end up using up way less of the EM spectrum. Devices can send data with a much lower power signal and still get the message across because they are close to the access point. As we switch to more advanced WiFi technologies, the interference will actually get smaller. With 5 GHz you get 23 non-overlapping channels. And with the shor
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I fully agree that "a good mesh system can make things better for everyone", but the vast majority of consumer mesh systems are bad.
Most home WiFi mesh routers fail to support most of the "23 non-overlapping channels", and many amp up the radios for "greatest performance". All this leads to heavily saturated airwaves, which in turn leads to more people buying lousy products.
The most popular Eeros models are limited in this way.
A load Of Crap (Score:1)