The Eero 6 mesh wifi router gives me fast, reliable internet access anywhere in my home or yard, and it’s easy enough for anyone to set up.

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Sun-starved remote workers like me would much rather toil on spreadsheets outside now that summer has come to the northern hemisphere. But wifi seldom cooperates in the great outdoors. Zoom meetings stutter, pages take ages to load, and eventually you’re back inside a grey room just to be able to Slack coworkers.

This was my situation four years ago, but I solved it with the Eero 6, a wifi router that replaced my old black box and now blankets my house and yard in fast, reliable wifi, without dead zones. It can also help extend your internet connection across multiple floors in a house, or overcome interference caused by the thick walls you’d find in an apartment building.