Question on Purple installation with eero router
To be upfront - I've very little experience with any sort of networking hardware. I wanted to install a Purple for more security, but I've been going over the installation guides and I don't know which is applicable.
My outside cable comes directly into the eero, and goes out of the eero via WiFi.
I'm afraid of messing with the eero settings without knowing which configuration I've got.
Does it sound like I would be doing a router replacement? I haven't tested yet, but I'm thinking that the incoming cable needs to go into the eero first.
The other eero guides make it sound like the eeros are and always were just WiFi adapters or a WiFi mesh (not a router). All schematics seem to show Internet > Firewalla > eero ....
I'm assuming 'Internet' refers to router and 'eero' would be a WiFi adapter? I don't see one that matches a combination eero router and adapter. (I probably just don't know what I'm looking for).
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What you ultimately want is this:
Modem --> Firewalla in router mode --> Eero in bridge mode.
To make thing easy, what you can do is this first
Modem -> Firewalla in router mode -> Eero in router mode (you don't change anything from you have, just move the wires over to firewalla)
If above work well, and you don't see devices under firewalla, you can move eero to bridge mode after you are comfortable.
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