Eero Pro 6Es and Firewalla Gold SE
Hi all,
I just upgrade my home network. I used to have 4 Eero Pros + Eero Beacon. Coverage throughout the house and outside was great. WiFi speeds were great. I had no issues but still wanted to upgrade because I am about to set up a second a network at a second location and I wanted a VPN between my home and that location. But that's a task for another day.
I have a fiber modem and pay for 1Gbit up and down.
I bought the Firewalla Gold SE and 5 x Eero Pro 6Es.
I followed all the advice on the topology I could find...
Fiber optic modem -> Firewalla (router mode) -> Eero Pro 6E -> home switch -> other Eero Pro 6Es, switches, and devices.
The Eeros are in Bridge mode.
The devices that are wired via the Eeros or directly on the switches that are connected to the single Eero Pro 6E connected to Firewalla all work great and get great speeds.
The WiFi performance is really bad. I just tested and got 2Mbits down/up on my laptop. I could get 400Mbit down/up on the laptop. Many of my smarthome devices lost their connection. My Ring house alarm loses its connection. My WiFi situation has definitely regressed.
I called Eero support. They advised me to move the Eeros back to Gateway mode and remove Firewalla.
What is the community's advice? Is there some configuration on the Firewalla that I might have missed? As I mentioned, Firewalla is on Router mode, as per the relevant guidance.
thank you
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I have the exact same setup, except 4 eero Pro 6E's. Otherwise it's the same, gigabit fiber, and eero's are in bridge mode. I'm really happy with my performace. I can get 300+ Mbps on wifi pretty much anywhere in my house, some spots can be double that.
I doubt that the Firewalla has anything to do with it. But eero probably wants you to remove all variables to test. One thing I found is that eero's are sensitive to placement, and you can have too many eero's. Maybe try having only one eero connected to your Firewalla box and do a wifi speedtest from the Firewalla app. Then add your other eero's back, one by one.
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thanks! It's good to know that the same set up works.
I am going to combine both of your advices. I am going to completely reset the eeros and delete the eero network. There might be configuration settings that have remained in the network as i evolved it from its previous state and its previous devices. Then add the eeros one at a time.
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Yeah. Indeed. Very strange.
Few hours ago, I deleted the eero network and added each Eero Pro 6E one at a time.
So far, it's good. I can get ~600Mbits down/up from my iPhone 15 over WiFi when I am relatively close to one of the eeros. The network seems to be stable and performing as I would have expected.
I am going to monitor the situation for a few days before I declare success.
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so... it seems that the performance of the WiFi deteriorated again :(
I am in the same room as one of the wired eeros and i get 1mbit/s on my iPad and laptop.
Bill... are all your eeros connected to the same switch? I have smaller switches connected to the house's main ethernet switch. Some of the satellite eeros are connected to the smaller switches while some others are connected directly to the main switch. I can't see how the switches might cause an issue but before trying to remove them from the equation, i thought of asking.
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