Apple is now selling Amazon's three-piece Eero kit directly from Apple.com to customers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
As we've reported previously, the three-piece Eero kit—specifically, the redesigned version released after the Amazon acquisition—should be on anybody's short list when considering new Wi-Fi gear. Eero can't quite hang with Plume on the absolute busiest, toughest multi-system performance test—but it comes far closer than any other consumer kit we've tested, and it does so without Plume's unpopular ongoing subscription fees.
On paper, the base Eero kit doesn't look very impressive—it only offers dual-band radios and no Wi-Fi 6. The secret lies in its TrueMesh firmware, which dynamically adapts Eero's backhaul topology to the changing needs of the network on a moment-to-moment basis. In practice, Eero's dynamic management allows it to outperform some systems with much beefier hardware—particularly when its lower cost means putting in three access points to a higher-cost competitor's two.
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