At my old house, my three-node Eero mesh system worked okay for 150Mbps internet. When I built my new house with 1,200Mbps service, I assumed the same mesh systems would scale up. It didn't. Devices dropped connections constantly, speeds fluctuated wildly, and my family complained daily about buffering. The mesh nodes couldn't keep up with our faster internet, the bigger footprint of my new house.

I ended up upgrading to an Ubiquiti system with hardwired access points (APs). I just should have done it sooner. My network went from something I tolerated to something I actually trust. Once I planned to crimp my own Ethernet cables for my basement project, I knew the Eero wasn't going to cut it much longer.

My mesh system worked fine until it didn't

Three nodes couldn't handle the new house

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