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I wish this wasn't a sponsored video because I think there's more natural options for AirPort replacements than the Asus products shown. eero for example "feels" much more like AirPort - simple, inoffensive designs that can fit in to a house's decor with simple app-based setup that you're not supposed to need to touch again afterwards at a much lower price than Asus' offerings.
ASUS has products similar to eero with a more sedate design. The zen series comes in a range of shapes and isn’t tied to amazon.
Yeah I have an eero 6 pro 3 pack with HomeKit secure router. As much as I like eero, just having to log in with my Amazon account irks me to no end. And it tries to sell you on echo and Alexa stuff at every screen during set up.
What bothers me is that even if you buy (own) echo devices, it still puts that crap in your face all the time. Same for the Ring app. Crappy nuisance atop otherwise decent software
Also the content to advertisement ratio is ridiculous.
Eero is awesome
I wish it's not a sponsored video as well but FWIW I looked hard into this half a year ago and decided that ASUS is probably still the best lineup in terms of being consumer friendly and privacy focused.
For example, eero requires an internet connection to use which to me is anti-privacy and very anti-Apple, which has usually focused on making their products workable without mandatory internet connections (e.g. no mandatory iCloud signins unlike Windows 11, etc).
ASUS routers also allow you to mix-and-match routers of different models for use in a mesh network whereas a lot of the other mesh routers require you to use only from the same lineup, which means you have to replace all your routers wholesale if you later on want to get new routers.
(I'm not sponsored by ASUS. Just summarizing what I concluded on when upgrading routers for my parents)