Eero uses “largest consumer mesh network dataset” to boost Wi-Fi performance

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Eero—the mesh Wi-Fi router company that hit the market early last year—has announced a major update for its little white boxes. The company has come up with a new software wrinkle it calls "TrueMesh technology," which should boost the performance of its devices' mesh Wi-Fi networks. The company is also adding support for some handy Amazon Alexa voice commands.

TrueMesh is a redesign of Eero's mesh technology "from the ground up," to "understand and navigate a network’s topology in real-time." From the start, Eero has pitched itself as a "cloud-based" mesh router—"anonymized performance and diagnostic data" is collected from all Eero customers and used to make the performance of the system better. Now that the Eero has been on the market for almost two years, the company says it has compiled "the largest-ever consumer mesh network dataset" with "hundreds of millions of data points." With all this aggregate data Eero can tweak the router's settings and boost performance.