What do I need to get/do to bypass eero 6?

413x · 30 Mar 2024 at 21:19

This garbage router is driving my mad.

Devices keep dropping off for no reason.
Early today my lights disconnected and this evening chromecast.

This never happened with the old talk talk router.

Do I need to add something to the eero? I'm not sure how to do that as eero is really locked down?

Or can I just get rid of it and replace it with a router? I don't know much about networking

GregI · 31 Mar 2024 at 09:32

We told you last month just get another router and see how it goes.

413x · 31 Mar 2024 at 11:54

GregI said:
We told you last month just get another router and see how it goes.

I mean how do I do it. Can you buy anything and replace the router?

Or do you need to use some pass through thing?

GregI · 31 Mar 2024 at 12:18

Yes just get another router and plug that into the box on the wall. The eero is not required.

I don't know if YouFibre still require specific MAC addreses or not so you might need to go on support and tell them the MAC address of whatever router you end up getting.

413x · 1 Apr 2024 at 17:37

GregI said:
Yes just get another router and plug that into the box on the wall. The eero is not required.

I don't know if YouFibre still require specific MAC addreses or not so you might need to go on support and tell them the MAC address of whatever router you end up getting.

I'll call them up tomorrow. Wasn't sure with fibre if there were any caveats.

beachBOYken · 2 Apr 2024 at 12:02

413x said:
This garbage router is driving my mad.

Devices keep dropping off for no reason.
Early today my lights disconnected and this evening chromecast.

This never happened with the old talk talk router.

Do I need to add something to the eero? I'm not sure how to do that as eero is really locked down?

Or can I just get rid of it and replace it with a router? I don't know much about networking

Is this an ISP supplied eero?

Perhaps it has different software as I wouldn’t say it’s a garbage router at all, I have 3 x eero pro 6’s dotted around the house and they have been excellent for the past 2 years, mine were not isp supplied though.

413x · 2 Apr 2024 at 12:22

beachBOYken said:
Is this an ISP supplied eero?

Perhaps it has different software as I wouldn’t say it’s a garbage router at all, I have 3 x eero pro 6’s dotted around the house and they have been excellent for the past 2 years, mine were not isp supplied though.

Found them significantly worse than old talk talk router.

No ability to separate 5 and 2.4ghz is a big annoyance due to the slow speeds on 2.4.
Other issue is random drop outs of devices. Which also never happened on old router.

beachBOYken · 2 Apr 2024 at 12:24

413x said:
Found them significantly worse than old talk talk router.

No ability to separate 5 and 2.4ghz is a big annoyance due to the slow speeds on 2.4.
Other issue is random drop outs of devices. Which also never happened on old router.

I find my devices connect fine to 5ghz where available. I think these isp supplied ones have some trash isp configured software on them, think there was a similar topic on here mentioned that.

413x · 2 Apr 2024 at 12:25

beachBOYken said:
I find my devices connect fine to 5ghz where available. I think these isp supplied ones have some trash software on them, think there was a similar topic on here mentioned that.

Yeah can't remember who it was who said their eero had options mine doesn't. Which is fairly annoying