 Moving on Jordan writes I'm getting gigabit fiber installed next week. Welcome to the club, man The only the only bad part about this club is I there's there's no current option of going up and You can only move down from here. You can check it anytime. You like what you can never leave You're never gonna want to leave you're never gonna want to leave. That's right. Yeah It's moving on that's not what it's this is really about though He says I currently use the Eero pro the 802.11 ac version and I'm somewhat happy with them I previously used a Synology RT 2600 and liked it but switched to the Eero for the simplicity so fair I bought the new Wi-Fi 6 Synology router with plans to use that for my new fiber connection But my fiber provider frontier provides to Eero pro 6 units and this has me torn I don't need mesh for coverage in my home I just want the fastest and most reliable network possible. Can you compare and contrast the two options? I Can I have all of them here? In fact, I've been testing the new Eero pro 6 ease as well and So my setup changes all the time because I test things all the time however When I'm in default mode like after I'm done testing something when everything goes back to quote-unquote normal here and I guess it's not the TMO towers east anymore John. Maybe it's the MGG towers north But here in MGG towers north the default setup is the Synology router now the RT 6600 aX and but with its Wi-Fi off and Now the Eero pro 6e Throughout the house to provide my mesh. So the Eero is in bridge mode and the Synology is doing the routing This is I know there are many of you out there that actually do the same thing and there's a good reason for it Right because the the Eero is By far and away the best Wi-Fi mesh Foremost it's not like it's hard to say that one thing is best for all especially when it comes to wireless but certainly foremost and The Synology router allows me all the flexibility that I want in a router including all the features that I want like an inbound VPN and Using different What do they call the VLANs right all of that stuff which I'm now using some because I'm crazy and the port forwarding and the tracking and You know the reporting all of that stuff is fantastic on the Synology router It's a little nerdy, but the web interface actually takes some of that nerdiness and and and makes it a little bit comfortable I choose to put the Eero on bridge mode like I said and and use it as my Wi-Fi But for most people I Recommend especially people who need mesh now Jordan You're in a weird position because you you say you don't need mesh. I'm gonna explain why you might but for most people Most folks need mesh and so my easy recommendation is Eero Certainly the Eero Pro the 802.11 AC version works great the Wi-Fi 6 version the Eero Pro 6e is spectacular and I like it a lot because it will use that six gigahertz channel for Backhaul as well as front haul and since our iPhones 14 do not have a Six gigahertz Wi-Fi chip in them that means that our homes are not cluttered with client devices using six gigahertz I actually see this as a good thing. I know it seems strange, but Being able to use the six gigahertz Spectrum and leave that free for the backhaul between your Eero devices That is gonna be key and it's like it's not gonna last forever They we will get six gigahertz on our client devices There are already many out there that have it but our iPhones don't have it our Macs don't have it So those of us in Apple land get this sort of constrained Version of of actually a pretty good world if you go with like a the Eero Pro 6e and The user interface for the Eero routers is in the whole Eero mesh is simple It lets you do many things Including you know the port forwarding and all of that stuff that you wouldn't want to do or need to do It doesn't do VPN or anything like that, but it it certainly Is a it's a it's a very capable interface and and there's a reason that the Eero sits You know up there at the top of my my mesh list there are there are the mesh world is evolving all the time So stay tuned for any more information that may or may not be coming from various mesh vendors But at the moment the Eero Pro 6e is absolutely my favorite of these and for good reason So which should you get Jordan because you're in a home where you say that you Need you don't need mesh and you already have the Synology I think he said he could return it and You get the Eero 6e for free. It's a Let me say this about Homes that don't need mesh one nice thing about a mesh system is you get Wi-Fi bandwidth to each mesh point separately so if you've got a lot of people streaming even if you don't need mesh for coverage you might like to have mesh for simultaneous streaming bandwidth and a lot of folks have found that to be a Great benefit of mesh even if you can reach the the router from all points in your home So I you know I still lean towards most homes needing mesh now Would you need three units? Maybe not maybe a two-pack would be enough, which just sounds like is what they're sending you Jordan so I I don't know that I would want to be I Don't know that I would want to have my own Wi-Fi setup that wasn't mesh in today's world Regardless of the size of the home unless it was just me there Then if the size of the home meant the coverage was okay, then I'd probably be alright But otherwise with multiple people in the house, there's a benefit to having mesh So I think I would lean towards the the era although obviously I love the Synology router It is the thing that routes my home. So I've seen Pete and John Leaning in sorry Pete. Go ahead. Yeah, so you answered my question before I could ask it I'm going, you know, do I get the two? Do I get the three? You know that sort of thing and then but then the other thing is Especially if you've been a cable cutter and you're now using DirectCV stream YouTube TV Any of those you're gonna want that extra bandwidth Right, right, you know, you're trying to stream TV and someone's trying to use a computer Someone's gaming, you know, I got a teenager gaming Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, and that can make a big difference to have that, you know, sort of, you know Not on an overloaded Wi-Fi circuit. Yeah, it's a lot Jordan. You just cost me 600 bucks