Looking for advice on best setup\

I have a two story home, about 3000sq ft (~ 2K up / 1K down).

Modem is upstairs along an exterior wall in our office.

Currently, I have a Airport Extreme connected to the modem upstairs, and have an Airport Express connect to it via ethernet downstairs.
- Both Apple devices run in bridge mode because I have IP addresses reserved for specific devices in my media room.
- I also have a Nest camera (important to note due to my questions)
- Wondering if I should just leave my current setup wired as is, and leave the Nest connected to that network so it is not using bandwidth from the new Eero Network.
At the same time I have purchased a new Eero Pro 3 pack.
- If I leave the existing network setup, I would setup the Eero wirelessly. (1 up / 2 down)
- If I sunset the existing network, I could connect two Eeros via ethernet, and the 3rd would also be downstairs wirelessly.
- Should I consider pulling existing network, setting up the Eero and use the Apple devices in bridge mode within the Eero network?

Thanks for any feedback. Much appreciated.

- petercw2
- 7 yrs ago
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edit: that SHOULD read 2k DOWNstairs and 1k Upstairs.
- cMoo92
- 7 yrs ago
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I wouldn’t recommend leaving the Airport devices running. I would remove those and only have the eeros. You can add IP reservations for devices in the eero app so that won’t be a problem. And hardwiring as many of the eeros as possible will always be the best choice...but it’s not required.

Having the Nest camera on the same network won’t make a bit of difference. They actually don’t use all that much bandwidth. I have two of the cameras on my eero network.

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