Eero's latest mesh extender brings Wi-Fi to the great outdoors

In a nutshell: Mesh Wi-Fi master Eero has introduced a merchandise designed to grow sum beyond your 4 walls and into nan awesome outdoors. Outdoor 7 is nan company's first instrumentality specifically designed to run successful nan unpredictable conditions extracurricular your home. It boasts an IP66 standing – meaning it tin guidelines up to powerful jets of h2o – and tin run successful temperatures ranging from 130 degrees Fahrenheit down to -40F.

Eero tested nan instrumentality crossed a scope of real-world and simulated harsh environments specified arsenic successful Arizona and astatine nan beach, arsenic good arsenic successful a commercialized refrigerator and a passageway pinch 100 mph winds.

Outdoor 7 includes a 2.5GbE larboard for Power-over-Ethernet. There's besides an optional 30W Outdoor Poe+ adapter, truthful you tin plug nan portion into immoderate outdoor AC outlet and link wirelessly to your Eero network.

As for range, nan institution claims a azygous portion tin broad up to 15,000 quadrate feet pinch Wi-Fi astatine speeds up to 2.1Gbps. Those pinch larger properties tin usage aggregate Outdoor 7 devices to create a point-to-point relationship for moreover greater coverage. It besides doubles arsenic a smart location hub and is compatible pinch Matter, Thread, and Zigbee devices.

A weatherproof entree constituent could beryllium useful successful a assortment of situations, allowing users to easy support outdoor devices for illustration speakers and information cameras connected. Eero said early testers utilized Outdoor 7 to get sum from their location to a beach, and from an flat down to nan thoroughfare below. I could besides spot them being useful connected hunting land.

Eero was founded successful nan mid 2010s but sewage disconnected to a rocky start, starring to Amazon purchase nan institution successful early 2019. Terms of nan woody were not made nationalist though leaked documents show Amazon paid $97 million for nan company.

Eero's Outdoor 7 goes connected waste November 13, and comes backed by a 3 twelvemonth warranty. It will group you backmost $349.99 (or $399.99 bundled pinch nan 30W PoE+ adapter). Look for it connected Eero's website, Amazon, aliases astatine your section Best Buy.