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Eero announces a wifi 7 router (10Gbps ports)

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2 10Gbps ports and 2 2.5 Gbps ports!


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Wi-Fi 7 Tri-band concurrent 2:4:4 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) with support for 240 MHz channels in 5 GHz and 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz; compatible with older Wi-Fi standards. Quad-core A73 processor, 2GB RAM, 4GB flash storage. The company says it can cover 2,500 square feet per router or up to 7,500 square feet with a three-pack.

£599.99 for a 1 pack, £1,149.99 2 pack and £1,699.99 for a 3 pack. Likely £399.99, £799.99 and £1,199.99 respectively come black friday.

Availability "soon".
 
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Now if only there was a bandwidth guzzling device that uses wifi 7. :)
Samsung's next S series is rumoured to do just that .
 
Some ISPs are using eero 6 series routers alongside their FTTP packages, such as TalkTalk, so it will be interesting to see if any of those players decide to adopt these too.
 
Some ISPs are using eero 6 series routers alongside their FTTP packages, such as TalkTalk, so it will be interesting to see if any of those players decide to adopt these too.
giganet is using the eero 6pro series, wifi6e.
 
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Vodafone uses wifi 6e too. And EE have a wifi 7 router in the works .
 
There is no switching capacity specified in the Amazon specs which is suspicious:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CF33N7WW

Switching capacity is the maximum amount of data that can be throughput between the switch interface processor (or interface card) and the data bus and is measured in Gbit/s.

Twice the sum of all port capacity ports should be less than the switch capacity to achieve full duplex non-blocking switching. 2x 2.5Gb and 2x 10Gb means 25 Gb x 2 = 50Gb + the wireless interfaces.
 
Why are they so expensive? You'd think it would just be a new version of the chipset to support Wifi7. Therefore why are they 3x the price of the current Wifi 6E Eero's? £600 for a router is an insane price.

I bought Xiaomi's Wifi 7 router for £145 from Aliexpress. The Wifi 6E version was £100. So again why is it £600 for this router?
 
Why are they so expensive? You'd think it would just be a new version of the chipset to support Wifi7. Therefore why are they 3x the price of the current Wifi 6E Eero's? £600 for a router is an insane price.

I bought Xiaomi's Wifi 7 router for £145 from Aliexpress. The Wifi 6E version was £100. So again why is it £600 for this router?
the EU/UK prices = expensive. China = cheap.
 
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the EU/UK prices = expensive. China = cheap.
UE/UK prices = real prices. China = subsidised prices to kill competitors and take over a market segment

I would be very wary of buying critical networking equipment from a Chinese company (note that is dfifferent than made in China by a western). The government can compel any Chinese company to do anything they want, like deploy malware or spy for China. There is no rule of law in China, just the rule of the Communist party. So yeah Xiaomi's router from Aliexpress is cheap but can you trust it?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...tic-chips-compete-with-us-sources-2022-12-13/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...on-into-chinese-electric-vehicles-2023-09-13/
 
So again why is it £600 for this router?
The eero has Wifi7 and 2x 2.5 Gb ports and 2x 10Gb ports so it's not apples to apples with the Xiaomi. The ASUS RT-AX89X has dual 10Gb ports (and 8x 1Gb ports) for ~£360 but no 2.5Gb ports and no Wifi 7.
 
Does that include shipping and import duties?
Yes it did. Only thing it didn't have was a British plug. Had to buy that separately. You need a 4.0mmx1.7mm DC Barrel adapter for it. I just bought a 5.5mmx2.1mm mains power and an adapter to turn it to 4.0mm
 
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As said in op the £599 price is just so they can put it on offer. The current pro 6 is £200 but you can get that for under £100. It's on sale more than it's not. The same will happen here.
 
As said in op the £599 price is just so they can put it on offer. The current pro 6 is £200 but you can get that for under £100. It's on sale more than it's not. The same will happen here.
ye as time goes by and no one is buying the wif7 router because of the huge price, it will drop.
 

The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not

Magicians, management, and marketing depend on misdirection. A deception that doesn't quite qualify as a lie, it implies something they want you to believe while drawing attention away from questions that would destroy that perception. It's worth learning how to spot these as they highlight exactly the questions you should be asking


PS: See also EE's recent WiFi7 announcement
 
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