Hello,

I, too, am stuck with a bunch of Eero nodes that make decisions about as well a high schooler who's had their head in the Jack Daniel's punch bowl a bit too long at the after prom party. I am well beyond the return window. That's my bad. I figured I could make it work. I figured wrong - this forum validates that !. Not being able to assign separate SSIDs is bad enough, but not being able to change channels is downright inexcusable. Now the price, that's just salt in the wound. Apparently, the Eero devs went a bit overboard with the whole dumbing down thing. I have a ton of IOT devices & security cameras, to which I am now at the mercy of a poorly designed autonomous system. Point in case: Pre Eero, I had 10 ~ 12 various Echo smart speakers (Everywhere Group) which I had assigned to the 5 GHz band for better lossless audio bandwidth & less 2.4GHz congestion. Well, apparently Eero thought that was a bad idea, and assigned all of them to the 2.4GHz band. All of my Eeros are Ethernet hardwired, and they do provide a strong, stable signal, just not the signal I want. Right now, My system is rocking channel 1; my preferred channel, and everything is running smoothly. That could all change overnight, as it often switches to channel 5; the most congested channel in my neighborhood. I have no idea what the whole channel 1 or 11 thing is about. Mine has always only been on 1 or 5. When it switches to channel 5, my FHD cameras are only stable in 360p - horrible in SD & 1080p. A few of my smart speakers also start intermittently losing Wi-Fi connection.

Folks, It would appear our only hope is that someone, like the devs @ Android Central, comes up with a hack or workaround for these shortcomings. There is no way the Eero team is unaware of the many dissatisfied customers, & why, after all these years. They are sitting on their hands, and as best as I can tell, will continue to do so until someone takes the initiative to file a class action suit. Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting that, but in this litigious world, given the costs of these systems, it's just a matter of time.