Eero bathes your home in super-charged Wi-Fi

If you have cable, then it’s a good bet your Wi-Fi comes courtesy of the cable producer’s incredibly average modem. Most of them are one or two generations behind the latest Wi-Fi technology and they’re pretty much a mystery to most consumers.

You can’t easily replace the modems without a cable company’s help, but what if you could sort of side-step your cable producer’s crummy Wi-Fi and launch a new home network? That’s the idea of Eero, a new home networking system that uses mesh-networking technology to, in essence, flood every corner of your home with 802.11ac Wi-Fi (the latest 5 GHz Wi-Fi standard. It also simultaneously offers 2.4 Ghz for devices that can’t speak 5 GHz). Read more...