I have the same complaint about eero's devices, and unfortunately this seems to be the trend. I actually have concerns about their privacy policies.

Other brands of equipment seem to be OK at the moment, at least they provide relatively "advanced" settings...

And for most people, just plug and forget. I would recommend the “wireless” mesh system to most people instead of the AC-AP network system over PoE (called wired mesh?).

Edited by Otuuu (Wed 21-May-25 20:51:02)

I used to use the black BT discs (they have two different types of disks and if I remember correctly the black ones are the ones that can directly extend a home hub 2).

When they are all setup on the same wifi then they all share the same SSID (network name for anyone uninitiated). Moving between is seamless. The only thing I find with BT home discs or Eero is that sometimes a device will hang on to the last point it was connected to even when you have moved to another one being nearer - I think if you then stress it and start trying to use more data then it seems to switch to the strongest point.

In general the BT ones were ok but I moved to Eero as I wanted Wifi 6 to give me a bit more speed (and it does). I do regret moving to Eero due to the aforementioned annual fee (don't remember Amazon making it obvious before I bought them that some features are paywalled). At the moment though it is too expensive to switch as if I was going to switch I would go to wifi 7 and the proper wifi 7 devices are crazy expensive still.

If the network name i.e. SSID and passwords are the same for all the Access Points (AP's) then you can roam about. The other proviso is the client device also plays a part in this as well, so it's not just the AP's. I use 3 Omada EAP AP's and can wander around the property with roaming. All my non roaming smart devices, e.g. car charger, can be "locked" to a specific AP. The Omada app on the mobile is good in this respect for controlling client devices. In my opinion it is this management part of the solution that is the most important as it makes life a lot easier.

Sorry this is a side question, with 3 Omada AP's how are you managing to fit in the channels/channel width. I have just two currently, one on channel 1 (20Mhz width) and 100 (80Mhz width) and the other on channel 11 (40Mhz width) and 48 (80Mhz width) and have no more frequency room for another AP unless I am misunderstanding something. Channels 120, 124, 128 are for weather radar so I have excluded them.

They are using 11 & 36 , 6 & 40 and 1 & 44. Everything is set to Auto and managed by the OC200 controller.

In reply to a post by Adduxi:

They are using 11 & 36 , 6 & 40 and 1 & 44. Everything is set to Auto and managed by the OC200 controller.

Thanks for coming back, that makes sense now, all your channel widths must be running at 20Mhz for that to work.

Sorry to the OP for jumping in like this.