Amazon-owned Eero is updating its mainline mesh routers pinch Wi-Fi 7 options successful the caller Eero 7 and Eero Pro 7 that are disposable for preorder now up of their motorboat connected February 26th. Pricing for the Eero 7 and Eero Pro 7 ranges from $169.99 and $299.99 for azygous routers to $349.99 and $699.99 for three-packs, respectively.
Eero says these routers tin push wireless throughput of up to 1.8Gbps (Eero 7) and 3.9Gbps (Eero Pro 7) — if true, that’s much than capable for astir peoples’ hardwired net service. Like their Wi-Fi 6 and 6E predecessors, the 2 mesh systems are chiefly distinguished from each different by the number of bands they person and the throughput of their ethernet ports. The cheaper Eero 7 is simply a dual-band router (2.4GHz and 5GHz) pinch 2 2.5Gbps, self-configuring ethernet ports, while the Pro 7 adds a 6GHz set and dual 5Gbps ethernet ports.
Those figures aren’t arsenic awesome arsenic the numbers Eero claims for its first Wi-Fi 7 router, the Eero Max 7, but the caller routers bring Wi-Fi 7-exclusive features that tin still use you moreover if you don’t person Wi-Fi 7 devices, and astatine a overmuch little value than the Max 7’s almost $1,360 three-pack price. Those features committedness to amended the relationship betwixt wireless routers by combining aggregate bands into 1 for higher throughput and much stableness (if 1 is congested aliases goes down, it’s still utilizing the different one), and offering 320MHz transmission bandwidth connected the 6GHz band, aliases double the 160MHz that was the maximum going backmost to Wi-Fi 5.
Eero VP of package engineering Rowan Chakoumakos told The Verge in a briefing that some the Pro exemplary and modular Eero 7 tin push up to a 240MHz awesome connected the 5GHz band, thing other that’s only supported successful Wi-Fi 7. Basically, the wireless awesome going to an Eero 7 aliases Pro 7 mesh router should person much throughput than pinch older Eero systems, to the use of moreover your older, non-Wi-Fi 7 smartphone, crippled console, aliases laptop. It’ll besides beryllium a cheaper action if you’ve considered the Eero Outdoor 7 but couldn’t bring yourself to get the pricey Eero Max 7 to merge it with.
Like their predecessors, the caller Wi-Fi 7 routers activity arsenic smart location hubs for Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem, pinch Matter support, a Zigbee radio, and the expertise to enactment arsenic Thread Border Routers. They’re besides backward compatible pinch each of Eero’s 10 years’ worthy of routers and activity pinch Amazon smart speaker devices for illustration Echo Dots pinch Eero mesh extender capability and each older Wi-Fi standards.
The merchandise of these caller routers brings Eero’s Wi-Fi 7 options up to four, including the outdoor Wi-Fi 7 router it announced successful October. The institution says it will support trading the Eero 6, 6 Plus, and Pro 6E, each of which sewage a caller value driblet that knocked astir $20 disconnected of prices that now scope betwixt $89.99 for a azygous Eero 6 each the measurement up to $549.99 for a three-pack of the Eero Pro 6E.