ericben

1.  If your Eero is your router then yes.

2.  Search Eero docs its simple process in the app.  But then you need some device to act as your router since in bridge mode the Eero's are no longer a router.

3.  Search Circle docs, they should have a set up process.

danredwing 

That should work.  That is one solution to the Circle issue, get an inexpensive router with 3+ ports and use the Eero units in bridge mode.

skyfranks I had sort of given up, but then an email about this thread brought me back and I started reading and this solution gave me some inspiration to try again.  

Eero hasn't been completely straight forward for me with Centurylink as you have to run it in Bridge mode, but after a few weeks of fiddling, it seemed to settle in and I'm now getting fast reliable speed all over my house. 

danredwing Well, this just goes from bad to worse. I put my eero's in bridge mode and then it said there was an update. 40 minutes later it still says it's downloading the update. What a joke. So buggy.

skyfranks Is your Circle connected? If so, make sure to go into the Device list and set all your eeros to Unmanaged.

skyfranks You should have the wifi completely turned off on your Fios router. The eeros are handling the wifi instead. Keeping the wireless on your Fios router on will just cause interference.

And the eeros don't do anything special as far as routing. Any modern wireless router would do the routing just as well. You just need to turn the wifi off on it so it doesn't interfere with the eeros.

weaves Fine. However, even if I pay for Eero plus you can't give me the functionality Circle can. I have an 11 year old I need robust filtering and time access options for. Also, you say you are optimizing for performance? Odd that since I put my Eero's in bridge mode, my stability and speed has improved. Even my work computer, which requires the use of VPN, has stopped getting booted every few minutes. That seems to indicate something else is not right in Eero's routing capabilities. This experience has been frustrating with no real resolution.

weaves If this really is the issue, then improve your service.  You offer eero plus, which I'm sure most of us wouldn't mind paying for if it had even HALF of the functionality of the Circle device.

We have all spent HUNDREDS of dollars on both devices to give us the functionality we're looking for only to be told by Circle that it's a problem with the eero and told by eero that it's a problem with the Circle.  Why don't you (as the CEO of a company we all love) actually put the task on your team to come up with a solution instead of continually blaming the other device.  Get creative.  You have a great product.  Find a way to work with lance_circle and either integrate their technology into your own product or come up with a better solution that you can monetize.  Eero Plus just isn't it for Circle users.

weaves Thanks for pointing this out. I'm using Circle on my greater than 100Mbps connection because for the devices I'm monitoring I don't care that much about maximum speed. (I mainly time limit my kids' access to video streaming sites.) If you set certain devices or categories to "Unmanaged," that traffic doesn't go through Circle, so it can achieve full network performance and isn't slowed down at all by Circle. Only the managed devices are affected. Please see this link for detailed analysis of when traffic is intercepted by Circle. I'm not saying this isn't a problem with Circle, just that it isn't a big deal for quite a few use cases.

I'm able to get Circle working properly by putting my eeros in bridged mode and connecting the Circle directly to my router/firewall and not to the eeros. I frankly wish eero had better parental controls because I absolutely love my eeros otherwise. Unfortunately, there is no way to manage and set time limits with eero Plus, since you're just using DNS-based blocking. I was hoping that eero would provide something that would be the class of the category, just as eero is the class of the wireless mesh category. Integrating Circle would have been far, far superior to the parental controls currently available though eero Plus.

weaves All I need, to consider Eero Plus a great solution, is whitelist, blacklist, and time-limit capabilities. Without that it's dead-in-the-water. Just curious if you guys have these things on the product roadmap? My kids are growing up and I need a solution before they've moved out. =)

MuteMosquito No, it's not and they aren't even trying to resolve it so don't set fire to your money. I'm still planning on trying to get off of eero again when I have some time. My eeros have been nothing but a set of issues even with Circle out of the equation. I won't be investing another dime into this system.

MuteMosquito It hasn't been resolved and is still an issue with gen 2 eeros, as well. However, if you have another router you can use, you can put the eeros in bridge mode and use them only for their wireless mesh and not for routing. Then you'd connect the Circle directly to the other router and NOT to the eeros, and it should work (at least it does for me). 

raminf  raminf  your 100Mbps connection will limit you t that speed if in the direct path.  Circle around poisons your traffic through one connection so it might be an issues if you are pushing over 100Mbps.

Nnyan Thanks, I sort of expected it might be.

But my understanding is Circle uses ARP spoofing so it'll likely slow things down during address lookup. Once the connection has been established the Circle should no longer be involved and things should run at the router's max speed. If that's an incorrect assumption then I need to revisit the whole network.

The Airport box isn't the fastest, but that's what the eeros replaced and I had sitting around. I've also disabled the wifi part of the Airport since that's what the eeros are for. Once the Sonic fiber service comes in I'll look for something wired-only and faster.