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How long until the adblocking, privacy features (Eero Plus) go away now? I'm guessing it will just slowly start getting glitchier until they pull it due to "low consumer demand".

As an Eero customer and owner of zero commercial eavesdropping hubs, I'm not happy about this.

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Just swap it out with Google Wifi. Oh wait...

Ubiquiti and Netgear are still out there with decent consumer mesh kits... for now...

Ubiquiti's consumer stuff is kind of bad (AmpliFi). I like their small business grade gear however (Unifi, and EdgeMax). Definitely wouldn't recommend it to most consumers however, it is Prosumer/Enthusiast level or above.

Why is AmpliFi bad? I'd honestly like to hear.

I had one of the early models of the AmpliFi. It was generally pretty solid. We have a really old house with a lot of brick and plaster and it did well at filling the house with wifi when other routers came up short. We got gigabit internet and it just sort of collapsed. I think newer versions are better equipped for that speed but ours couldn't seem to get past 100 mbps.

I thought their support was really good though. The main issue I have with it is that, for some reason, they were unable to identify my model number as being an older version that didn't support gigabit. They were super helpful but could have saved us both some time if they just paid closer attention to the model number.

I opted for the Netgear Orbi; good reviews and satellites capable of up to ~800 mbps in ideal situations.

Too complex to beat their easy-to-use competition (e.g. Google WiFi) and too simple to beat their feature rich competition (themselves in Unifi, Orbi, Asus, etc). Essentially the worst of both worlds. Plus the price is high without justification.

Why would I recommend AmpliFi over any of the half dozen alternatives on the market? Reality is that I simply wouldn't, and this coming from someone who loves Unifi/EdgeMax.

They also shipped a clearly not-ready product which took months to patch, not cool.

While the Netgear Orbi has been far from perfect, it was a good step up for us with multiple floors and a lot of nearby WiFi congestion. Seems like they've worked out a fair number of earlier growing pains around keeping the mesh... well... meshed.

I had nothing but non-stop pain with the NetGear Orbi system. Even the most recent firmware was constantly dropping satellites and the Apple TV. It was one of the most aggravating products I've ever purchased. The firmware is also complete junk. For example it has a QoS tab that simply shows a link to a 3rd party speed test service... that's not what quality of service means. The whole system is like that.

I finally threw in the towel and bought a few of the new Synology Mesh routers.

As they say... YMMV...

What are your thoughts on the Synology overall?

I just replaced a middle-tier Netgear consumer router that enraged me so much that I've resolved to never ever buy another of their products.

Asus seems nice.

I switched to TP-Link Decos a few months ago, 2 with wired backhauls and 1 with just wifi. Seems to work fine, haven't had problems with handoff.

What happens when Amazon bans you from price checking in their store... I mean your living room. Whoops.

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You can run Pi-hole on the side.

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