Setup three more Eero 6 devices yesterday so I now have a fully working Mesh network. Have to say Amazon have made it very simple to add nodes, simply switch on, add via the App and away you go. All the locations I picked (limited as you need a power socket near by) reported as being suitable.
Taking any device (phone / laptop) to different rooms is seamless with network connection maintained, just moving to a different node for the strongest signal. You can't force a device to connect to a specific Eero node as far as I can tell, and whilst this may be a problem for some I have no issues with it at present.
Wi-fi speed before the upgrade to full fibre was generally around 50-55Mbps on my laptop in when in the lounge, but only when connected to the hotspot router in the kitchen and not the gateway router in our study.
With the mesh network the speed does seem to vary quite considerably depending on time of day/devices connected etc, but the minimum I am seeing in the lounge is 70Mbps whilst early this morning came in consistently at 130+Mbps (no one else was up that early 😊 ).
Haven't noticed any dropped connections so far which we often had with the previous non-Eero setup so thats a great plus point too.
I have now removed the home plugs I used for the TV and simply connected it to the Wi-Fi. Will be testing this out this evening watching an ice-hockey livestream game to see if its stable (we occasionally had dropped connections with the home plugs which is annoying when watching live sport!).
Whilst not cheap, this mesh system is also not hugely expensive (I paid £170 for a three Eero 6 device bundle and smaller properties might not require more than 2 or 3) and I am pretty pleased at present and as long as the performance is stable it is well worth it for us !
