[askiiart]

> like Eero

I would like to wholeheartedly un-recommend getting an Eero. Eero broke port forwarding in an update and didn't fix it for a while, with no ability to roll it back myself. You can't control your updates at all. Eero had functionality as basic as port forwarding break for days and just left their customers entirely in the dark about it. Now I just use my Eeros in bridge mode and have a router running OPNsense, which works great, despite just being a computer I found off the curb with a networking card slapped in it.

I'm not the kind of Linux whose uncompromising priority is to be able to control every single corner of my computer, even at the expense of ease-of-use. I know that using proprietary software that's easier at the cost of fewer options is totally valid for most people. But if a product just breaks core functionality like that, with no way to fix it besides waiting for Amazon to get their shit together, then I could hardly recommend it to the most tech-illeterate people I know, much less to the HN crowd.