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I used two of these to upgrade from 3 previous-generation Eero Pro devices. I have a gigabit connection at home, and I'm starting to get Wifi 6 devices, so I was excited to have the latest from Eero, which I've purchased not only for myself, but for several relatives and friends over the past few years. This upgrade is fine, but not great, and I'm starting to get frustrated by the limitation of Eero's software. My setup is one Eero Pro 6 as the gateway, a second Eero Pro 6 that is ethernet-connected to a desktop computer, and a last-ten Eero Pro to add coverage in the farthest part of my apartment. According to Eero, this last one shouldn't be necessary in my 1000 square foot, single- floor apartment, but it is. The range technically reaches to the bedroom, but speeds are abysmal, dropping from ~500Mbps on a wifi 6 device to ~50Mbps. With the last-ten Eero Pro, they're at 150Mbps, which is fine. But the point is the "range" that Eero quotes doesn't account for declines in speed, which very well may mean you need more devices than you expect. My second issue is with the device I have connected to my desktop via ethernet. With this setup, the (non-Wifi 6) desktop jumped from ~500Mbps to ~800Mbps, which is great. The issue is that it screws up the connections and speed of all the wireless devices in the area. A phone or laptop would normally connect to the gateway Eero, and be able to pull 500Mbps (on Wifi6), but because the desktop is "too close" to the gateway, if the phone or laptop connects to that node instead, it only pulls 150Mbps. If Eero would listen to their customers and allow for the ability to turn off wifi, just using a device as a mesh ethernet bridge, this would solve the problem. It could also be solved by allowing users to manually "prefer" certain nodes for certain devices. Or for the Eero system to just be smart enough to know to always prefer the gateway, which will always be faster than a node. Users have been asking for these options and upgrades for years, but Eero declines to provide them. Eero is still great for an easy no-hassle setup. I'll probably keep it for my parents. But if you want *any* kind of control or optimization, which you very well may with Wifi 6, you probably want to look at other options.