Eero’s new product takes Wi-Fi beyond your walls

Mesh Wi-Fi pioneer Eero is tackling a caller frontier: the outdoors. Today, the Amazon-owned institution announced the Eero Outdoor 7. Starting astatine $349.99, the dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 entree point boasts an IP66 standing and tin supply up to 15,000 quadrate feet of outdoor sum with speeds of up to 2.1Gbps. That should beryllium capable to watercourse movies to your outdoor TV oregon projector, get bully connectivity for your information cameras, and adjacent funnel immoderate decent Wi-Fi to that shed astatine the extremity of the garden.

With connectivity present a necessity for truthful galore things we do, from enactment to play, extending your Wi-Fi web beyond your location into your gait feels progressively much important. Nick Weaver, CEO of Eero, told The Verge in an interrogation that a purpose-built instrumentality to widen an Eero mesh web outdoors is their astir requested product. “The happening we’ve heard clip and clip again from our customers since we launched is, ‘I’ve got each these devices outside. Do you person a merchandise for that?’”

With the Eero Outdoor 7, Eero users tin present usage their Wi-Fi web outdoors careless of the weather. The device, which is backward-compatible with each Eero products, has an IP66 rating, meaning it tin withstand jets of h2o and utmost temperatures. “Our plan goals were we wanted it to beryllium capable to enactment successful the godforsaken successful the summertime and Alaska successful the winter,” said Weaver, explaining it was tested “in the vigor of Arizona, a commercialized refrigerator, connected beaches, and successful a passageway with 100 MPH winds.”

The instrumentality is rated for temperatures arsenic debased arsenic -40 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 130F and comes with a caller three-year warranty. (Indoor Eero devices person a one-year warranty.) The Outdoor 7 is designed to beryllium mounted to a partition and comes with mounting accessories for stucco, vinyl, wood, oregon fibre cement walls. Weaver says it tin besides beryllium wrapped connected a pole. “It's truly flexible,” said Weaver.

To support its waterproofing, determination is lone 1 larboard — a 2.5GbE larboard that supports Power implicit Ethernet and has a peculiar sealing gasket. There’s besides the enactment of a 30W Outdoor PoE Plus powerfulness adapter that lets you plug the Outdoor 7 into an outdoor AC outlet and link wirelessly backmost to an Eero network. Weaver said this comes with an extra-long 18-foot cable. The Outdoor 7 comes bundled with the cablegram for $399.99.

While Eero’s indoor Eero Max 7 line is simply a tri-band router adding the 6GHz band, the outdoor exemplary lone offers 2.4 and 5GHz. Weaver said this is due to the fact that determination are “some beauteous large limitations connected outdoor usage of 6GHz. It tin truly impair the merchandise experience. We felt that with up to 2 gigs a 2nd and fixed the fig of clients outside, this was a large equilibrium successful presumption of what the exertion tin enactment and terms point.”

The Outdoor 7 besides offers point-to-point connectivity, truthful 2 placed successful enactment of show tin widen a web to different buildings, similar a shed oregon garage. This provides a faster connection, said Weaver. “Hundreds of megabits per 2nd astatine astir fractional a mile away,” helium said. “Say, if you person a gig successful your house, you could easy get 200 to 400 Mbps retired successful a shed if it’s not excessively acold away.” He said you could besides hardwire devices from determination utilizing an Eero POE gateway oregon conscionable usage Eero’s mesh networking technology.

Beyond extending Wi-Fi to an outdoor TV oregon amusement strategy oregon moving connected your laptop successful the garden, an outdoor entree constituent tin assistance with astute location struggles similar keeping your information cameras online.

Today, galore much outdoor devices request Wi-Fi, from astute sprinklers and scenery lighting to connected excavation pumps, gross and store doorway controllers, and astute locks. Even cars request Wi-Fi present for bundle updates. Clearly our connectivity needs are increasing. “It’s the proliferation of devices and that radical are conscionable accustomed to being capable to enactment everyplace and a batch of customers are besides gathering outdoor amusement areas,” said Weaver. The Eero Outdoor 7 besides works arsenic a astute location hub, with enactment for Thread, Zigbee, and Matter devices.

The Outdoor 7 is pricey astatine $350. A Wi-Fi 6 outdoor entree constituent from TP-Link costs less than fractional that (a Wi-Fi 7 version is coming soon). Ubiquiti’s new Wi-Fi 7 enactment is $250. However, the operation of Wi-Fi 7, IP66, and 15,000 quadrate feet of sum successful the Eero appears to beryllium a archetypal for a consumer-level device.

The Eero Outdoor 7 volition beryllium disposable starting connected November 13th for $349.99 astatine eero.com, Amazon, and Best Buy, among others. If you request the outdoor powerfulness adapter, it comes successful a bundle for $399.99. A Canadian mentation is coming soon.