Eero’s new product takes Wi-Fi beyond your walls

Mesh Wi-Fi pioneer Eero is tackling a caller frontier: the outdoors. Today, the Amazon-owned institution announced the Eero Outdoor 7. Starting astatine $349.99, the dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 entree point boasts an IP66 standing and tin supply up to 15,000 quadrate feet of outdoor sum pinch speeds of up to 2.1Gbps. That should beryllium capable to watercourse movies to your outdoor TV aliases projector, get bully connectivity for your information cameras, and moreover chimney immoderate decent Wi-Fi to that shed astatine the extremity of the garden.

With connectivity now a necessity for truthful galore things we do, from activity to play, extending your Wi-Fi web beyond your location into your gait feels progressively much important. Nick Weaver, CEO of Eero, told The Verge in an question and reply that a purpose-built instrumentality to widen an Eero mesh web outdoors is their astir requested product. “The point we’ve heard clip and clip again from our customers since we launched is, ‘I’ve sewage each these devices outside. Do you person a merchandise for that?’”

With the Eero Outdoor 7, Eero users tin now usage their Wi-Fi web outdoors sloppy of the weather. The device, which is backward-compatible pinch each Eero products, has an IP66 rating, meaning it tin withstand jets of h2o and utmost temperatures. “Our creation goals were we wanted it to beryllium capable to activity successful the godforsaken successful the summertime and Alaska successful the winter,” said Weaver, explaining it was tested “in the power of Arizona, a commercialized refrigerator, connected beaches, and successful a passageway pinch 100 MPH winds.”

The instrumentality is rated for temperatures arsenic debased arsenic -40 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 130F and comes pinch a caller three-year warranty. (Indoor Eero devices person a one-year warranty.) The Outdoor 7 is designed to beryllium mounted to a wall and comes pinch mounting accessories for stucco, vinyl, wood, aliases fibre cement walls. Weaver says it tin besides beryllium wrapped connected a pole. “It's really flexible,” said Weaver.

To support its waterproofing, location is only 1 larboard — a 2.5GbE larboard that supports Power complete Ethernet and has a typical sealing gasket. There’s besides the action of a 30W Outdoor PoE Plus powerfulness adapter that lets you plug the Outdoor 7 into an outdoor AC outlet and link wirelessly backmost to an Eero network. Weaver said this comes pinch an extra-long 18-foot cable. The Outdoor 7 comes bundled pinch the cablegram for $399.99.

While Eero’s indoor Eero Max 7 line is simply a tri-band router adding the 6GHz band, the outdoor exemplary only offers 2.4 and 5GHz. Weaver said this is because location are “some beautiful large limitations connected outdoor usage of 6GHz. It tin really impair the merchandise experience. We felt that pinch up to 2 gigs a 2nd and fixed the number of clients outside, this was a awesome equilibrium successful position of what the exertion tin support and value point.”

The Outdoor 7 besides offers point-to-point connectivity, truthful 2 placed successful statement of show tin widen a web to different buildings, for illustration a shed aliases garage. This provides a faster connection, said Weaver. “Hundreds of megabits per 2nd astatine almost half a mile away,” he said. “Say, if you person a gig successful your house, you could easy get 200 to 400 Mbps retired successful a shed if it’s not excessively acold away.” He said you could besides hardwire devices from location utilizing an Eero POE gateway aliases conscionable usage Eero’s mesh networking technology.

Beyond extending Wi-Fi to an outdoor TV aliases intermezo strategy aliases moving connected your laptop successful the garden, an outdoor entree constituent tin thief pinch smart location struggles for illustration keeping your information cameras online.

Today, galore much outdoor devices request Wi-Fi, from smart sprinklers and scenery lighting to connected excavation pumps, gross and car shed doorway controllers, and smart locks. Even cars request Wi-Fi now for package updates. Clearly our connectivity needs are increasing. “It’s the proliferation of devices and that group are conscionable accustomed to being capable to activity everyplace and a batch of customers are besides building outdoor intermezo areas,” said Weaver. The Eero Outdoor 7 besides useful arsenic a smart location hub, pinch support for Thread, Zigbee, and Matter devices.

The Outdoor 7 is pricey astatine $350. A Wi-Fi 6 outdoor entree constituent from TP-Link costs less than half that (a Wi-Fi 7 version is coming soon). Ubiquiti’s new Wi-Fi 7 action is $250. However, the operation of Wi-Fi 7, IP66, and 15,000 quadrate feet of sum successful the Eero appears to beryllium a first for a consumer-level device.

The Eero Outdoor 7 will beryllium disposable starting connected November 13th for $349.99 astatine eero.com, Amazon, and Best Buy, among others. If you request the outdoor powerfulness adapter, it comes successful a bundle for $399.99. A Canadian type is coming soon.