But, very few devices can use 6GHz yet it’s largely limited to a few high-end smartphones and gaming laptops. With its ability to support 160MHz of bandwidth, 6E’s 6GHz band let’s traffic drive along your network at its top speeds. Not to be confused with Wi-Fi 6 (which was more of an incremental upgrade), Wi-Fi 6E adds a whole new frequency band. A tri-band mesh router, it adds this new band to the existing 2.4 and 5GHz bands we’re all familiar with. The Eero Pro 6E aims to fix this by taking advantage of the new 6GHz Wi-Fi band. The Pro 6E download speeds were two to six times faster With so many devices competing for coverage, it’s easy to make a mesh Wi-Fi system sweat some megabits, dragging down your network and causing real pain. Be it laptops, robot vacuums, televisions, wireless speakers, smart bulbs, or a smart plug or two, most of us have multiple Wi-Fi-dependent devices in our homes. Since Wi-Fi has become so ubiquitous and the smart home has proliferated, we’ve loaded up our networks with gadgets and gizmos galore in every corner of the house. With mesh, instead of having to camp out in front of your modem to get a strong enough signal to FaceTime on your iPad, you could make video calls from the comfort of your bed.įast forward to today, and the Eero Pro 6E looks to tackle the next home Wi-Fi problem congestion. As one of the earliest consumer mesh routers, Eero offered a simple solution to the complicated problem of home networking. Six years ago, Eero launched its first mesh Wi-Fi system with the promise of fixing home Wi-Fi. 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.
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