Echo speakers can now be Eero mesh Wi-Fi extenders
by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy from The Verge - All Posts on (#645GZ)
Echo speakers will join the newest Echo Dot speakers as Eero Wi-Fi range extenders for an Eero. If you've been eyeing your Echo smart speaker for a while now and wondering if it could do something more than just play music or set a timer for your toast, I have good news. Amazon is turning it into an extender for your Eero mesh Wi-Fi network.
The capability to push your Wi-Fi a few hundred feet further around your home and make it easier to connect smart home devices like outdoor cameras and that streaming media stick in the spare bedroom is a feature of Amazon's new Echo Dot and Echo Dot with Clock speakers, announced today.
But the feature is also coming to the fourth-gen Echo speakers on October 20th and to all fourth-gen Echo Dot models via a software update in the coming months," Nick Weaver, CEO and co-founder of Eero, told T...