Oh well, I won’t be renewing.
So, for the backup service, you need to procure your own hotspot? Or, will the eero+ service provide you with backup service in case your main ISP goes down? I’m confused.
Highly pissed off by this move, but not surprised. The $30 for secure was a fair enough price so I paid it. $100 for nothing extra I’d actually use is insulting.
Really don’t want to drop $300+ on a firewalla if they’re about to follow the same business plan as eero. Still seems better than managing a pi-hole, pfsense and some kind of DNS setup, though.
Still hoping Amazeero just keeps ad blocking and DNS as part of the free service. If they’re truly customer obsessed you’d think that would be the outcome. That said seems like they hired some PMs from Google who specialize in cancellations…
So they’re “cable bundling” us after we all cut the cord to get away from bundling…
…… looks like there’s another (eero branded) cord to cut soon.
It’s crazy they feel they can demand this sub price and not even tell us what these “threats” it keeps on detecting are.
When my Eero Secure expires, I will promptly replace my eero 6e then.
Thanks for giving me a reason to upgrade to another hardware eero.
I am just not sure Firewalla will be free (services) for long with their cloud model; although part of me is still intrigued by this product.
Same. The more expensive offering has no value to me.
This is a dumb move and really sours me on the product as a whole.
I used to pay for Secure too, now an expiring subscription. NextDNS does virtually everything I need, with the added benefit that when set up as a profile on my devices, it works everywhere, not just my home network. I get DOH, ad and tracker blocking and detailed analytics so I can see where my devices are pinging. Secure+, now Plus, was never compelling enough.
I bet for most people, Secure is all they need, sad to see it go.
To be fair, $15/year is a 50% off promo price, but eero handed them out often enough that I only recently paid the full $30/year renewal price. Coincidentally, my subscription was renewed yesterday!
This may be the route I will need to take. I was willing to pay a small fee for features that really should have been included with the hardware but with this new “offering” I’m done. My next Wi-Fi mesh system will definitely not be from eero.
Same thing I was thinking. I only have Secure because of my kids. It’s not worth $99/yr when I can buy a Firewalla, which will do loads more, and ROI is 3 years for a purple (1Gbps).
It does a lot more than eero secure, though so I don’t think a straight price comparison makes sense.
No way am I paying $10 a month for base functionality.
That’s where this is going. And then it will be $12, and then it will be $15… New features will be added to the “paid tier” and not the free one, until the free one is useless.
It’s a money squeeze.
any links to a recommended guide by chance?
But beware it’s still a subscription service. It’s free for now like Eero used to be but can they build a longterm business model on “free service and cloud use forever?”
I wish TP-Link would make a router/controller combo unit for their Omada line. You can use their cloud access free now with your hardware controller and add whichever APs suit your topology the best. It would be like a Unifi Dream Machine and APs at a fraction of the cost, since Omada is almost a straight up clone anyway.
I’m running an Amplifi for my parents and while I like it better than Eero it’s almost just as limiting in many ways.
I’m using ASUS’s ZenWifi Pro ET12 mesh Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi speeds up to 11,000 Mbps, user can control Ethernet/wireless backhaul settings, 2.5 Gbps WAN and a 2.5 Gbps LAN, WAN and LAN aggregation, lots of air vents and neither unit gets more than like warm (ambient internal temps hover around 90-100° F, more than 30° cooler than Eero). Excellent built-in cybersecurity, easy to configure via the app, user can control when updates are installed (user sets time for auto updates or can just disable auto update and manually install firmware updates, or downgrade of the firmware is buggy, none of which eero allows), schedule network reboots, etc. I’ve been using it for several months and beats eero’s pants off.
“network insights”…giggles.
Eero is good at wifi but when it comes to firewalls and routers literally anything you use in front of eero will be better.
I did that too, but I needed a techier buddy to set it up. Now that I know my way around it, though, it’s amazing how much more I can see, do and control than I could with just eero alone.
The eeros even seem “snappier” and have fewer drops and issues now that they are bridged.
I might swap out to a better/fancier firewall someday but I’ll never go back to all-in-one “mesh” without a discrete wired box at the front of it all.