Eero homeowners rejoice. Or at the very least rejoice when you additionally personal Amazon Echo audio system. So long as they’re fourth-gen or later, they’ll quickly grow to be extenders to your mesh Wi-Fi system.
Amazon is including the Echo 4 and Echo Dot 4 to its Eero Constructed-in program, which permits them to behave as mesh Wi-Fi extenders.
It received’t be fairly pretty much as good as shopping for an precise Eero extender, however you’ll be able to nonetheless count on every Echo so as to add round 1,000 sq. toes (93m²) of Wi-Fi protection with speeds of as much as 100Mbps.
That’s greater than sufficient for streaming 4K video or HD video calls, even when it’s less than the giddy heights of the newest Eero gadgets.
And when you personal fairly a number of of them already, that’s a worthwhile free improve.
The newly introduced Echo Dot 5 vary helps Eero Constructed-in out of the field, however free software program updates for the Echo 4 and Echo Dot 4 will allow the function quickly.
For Echo 4 homeowners, there’s already a date to stay up for: 20 October.
In case you have an Echo Dot 4 (together with the model with built-in clock), Amazon says to count on it in “the approaching months”.
With a view to profit, you’ll want so as to add the appropriate Echo gadgets within the Eero app, which should be linked to your Amazon account. The truth is, whether it is already linked, the Eero app will routinely detect Echo gadgets in your Wi-Fi community and make then extenders with out you doing something in any respect.
One limitation is that you would be able to’t use Echo Dots in a stereo pair as extenders as a result of their Wi-Fi is already getting used for syncing audio: you need to select between that function and mesh Wi-Fi.