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Hi, I'm Leonard Keaney with Cult of Mac and I'm here to talk about the Eero
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The Eero is this great little new WiFi hub that comes not as one unit but in a pack of
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three and this is like one of the first products that I've reviewed for a long time that works
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great and was super easy to set up and is even better than my old trusty Apple Airport
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that I've been using for years. So I've been using Apple's Airport products for years, this is a time capsule 3GB, it's
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super easy to use and it does backups which I love so we have a couple of computers backing
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up to this and it's been like headache free. The trouble is we put it in the middle of the house and we only get coverage in like
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two or three rooms, we can't get coverage at the back of the house, we can't get coverage at the front of the house, the kids get spotty foot coverage in the bedrooms and this is
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not a big house, it's like a thousand square foot San Francisco house, very small, two bedroom but we've always had headaches with it and I've tried everything
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I've bought Apple Airport Express hubs and put those in different parts of the house
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to extend the network and they would work for a bit but then they would go glitchy and
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I've also always had, you know I seem to be constantly restarting this thing and resetting the network and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and it's just flaky
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So I've always had headaches with it and I've even actually ended up buying another Wi-Fi
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hub from Google, the Google Arm hub and set that up, connected by Ethernet but then I
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had to run two networks because I couldn't, the Arm hub doesn't extend the network
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So it's always been a headache, I've always had a headache here and it seems crazy because it's in a small house but I guess we're in the middle of San Francisco so there's a lot
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of other networks here and there's always been headaches. So this pack of three costs $500 which is not cheap, that's considerably expensive especially
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when you can get routers for less than $100 but you can also buy them individually so
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they're about $200 individually and you can always add more so this three will cover
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they say cover the average property and I saw, they don't give square footage but I
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saw people saying that they covered like a square, 3,000 square foot house so you can
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always add more, add an extra $200. So it's not cheap but you know Wi-Fi is so essential these days that I think it's probably
