Casey Liss:

However, a few years back, Eero fell victim to every corporation’s favorite thing: recurring revenue. Eero started quietly pushing Eero Plus, a subscription service that I was largely uninterested in.

Honestly, I was preparing for some shit hitting the fan much earlier after Amazon's acquisition. Eero has solved one very real problem for me—my work office in my bedroom is in the exact opposite place to my main router. The signal has to go through entire flat, with some thick doors, concrete walls and turns on the way. The fact that it works at all is a miracle of modern technology (at least to me), and the fact that it works really, really well just took it to another level.

I did have small hiccups with Eero here and there—it doesn't work that well with VNET jails in FreeBSD, for example. Something bizarre was happening there where connection was getting lost after couple of days of normal working—only reboot was able to restore it a functional state.

But having all that crap with Eero Plus getting shoved in my face, I just decided at some point to introduce proper firewall in my household. Something I can highly recommend to anyone up to the task and motivated enough. I have all of my networking visibility in there and my Eero has been demoted to a single thing that it does best—to provide reliable and strong WiFi signal in my entire flat. And it still does it very well.