Thoughts on the Eero 7 Max (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

Happy Tuesday, Ron!

Any diagnostic updates? Your situation is really intriguing. If I lived closer I'd probably be knocking on your door.

John, if only. Would love to hang with you.

The situation is this...

Despite not getting close to the WiFi speeds I had expected from this terribly expensive system, I am going to end up keeping it.

As I mentioned above, Eero support was able to see my system while I was on the phone with them and reported that I had a lot of noise in all of the rooms the nodes were placed in. There is no getting around it. My home has speakers and televisions everywhere. These things affect signal output.

On a WiFi 7 device (iPhone 7), near an Eero node, I get download speeds of 538 Mbps
WiFi 6 (which I have the most devices for) drops down to 401 Mbps
WiFi 5 drops down to 187 Mbps

This is pretty disgraceful for incoming Wifi of 1GB

However, the bigger picture is that the Wifi 7 and 6 speeds are significantly faster than what I had previously, almost a 300 Mbps gain in areas away from the Eero nodes.

I have done nothing but read reviews of the Eero Max 7 as well as the previously owned TP-Link Deco BE85. Getting 1GB wireless speed is possible. You have a few people that obtain it. There are also a lot of other people that complain they can't exceed speeds of 350 Mbps on their WiFi 5 and 6 devices. I think, in those cases, it's related to signal noise.

I hope that as I continue to upgrade Mac hardware that has the WiFi 7 spec, my wireless speeds will greatly improve thanks to the Eero system I just purchased.

 

[John Dirk]

John, if only. Would love to hang with you.

The situation is this...

Despite not getting close to the WiFi speeds I had expected from this terribly expensive system, I am going to end up keeping it.

As I mentioned above, Eero support was able to see my system while I was on the phone with them and reported that I had a lot of noise in all of the rooms the nodes were placed in. There is no getting around it. My home has speakers and televisions everywhere. These things affect signal output.

On a WiFi 7 device (iPhone 7), near an Eero node, I get download speeds of 538 Mbps
WiFi 6 (which I have the most devices for) drops down to 401 Mbps
WiFi 5 drops down to 187 Mbps

This is pretty disgraceful for incoming Wifi of 1GB

However, the bigger picture is that the Wifi 7 and 6 speeds are significantly faster than what I had previously, almost a 300 Mbps gain in areas away from the Eero nodes.

I have done nothing but read reviews of the Eero Max 7 as well as the previously owned TP-Link Deco BE85. Getting 1GB wireless speed is possible. You have a few people that obtain it. There are also a lot of other people that complain they can't exceed speeds of 350 Mbps on their WiFi 5 and 6 devices. I think, in those cases, it's related to signal noise.

I hope that as I continue to upgrade Mac hardware that has the WiFi 7 spec, my wireless speeds will greatly improve thanks to the Eero system I just purchased.

Thanks for the update!

I knew you were keeping the Eero system and, given the fact we now have pretty solid proof it is in no way responsible for your degraded performance, it's a decision I can understand. In your position, however, the scientist in me would simply have to know the root cause.

Using my iPhone 15 Pro Max, I'm getting speeds in excess of 900Mbps near my Deco X5000 [Wifi 6] nodes and an average of 700Mbps pretty much anywhere in my house so, yes, you're absolutely correct about what is possible.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

WOW!


I am going to look like a fool here because I have been doing it all wrong

I have been complaining about inferior wireless download speeds, and it turns out it was the networks I was connecting to when doing the Speed Tests


For all my speed tests related to the first post review, I used a local hub as my testing location. I reasoned that the closest hub would be the fastest.

Wrong!

I changed the test location to a New York server 26 miles away and what you see above is my wireless speed.

I was able to achieve:

928Mbps on a WiFi 7 device (iPhone 16 Pro Max)
680Mbps on a WiFi 6 device (M4 iPad Pro)
580Mbps on a WiFi 5 device (M1 Macbook Pro)


...and that was pretty much throughout the entire house

So, it seems that I finally achieved what I have always wanted: 1GB WiFi speeds (or close to) throughout the house

Of course, the WiFi tests aren’t always consistent, but they’ve made me realize that this Max 7 mesh system is incredibly capable.

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