{"id":121079,"date":"2025-09-05T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121079\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:18:06","slug":"eeros-signal-is-a-cellular-safety-net-for-your-wi-fi-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121079\/","title":{"rendered":"Eero\u2019s Signal is a cellular safety net for your Wi-Fi network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The new Eero Signal could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was dealing with regular internet outages at my home last year. See, Signal automatically detects when your internet goes down and switches your whole Wi-Fi network over to a cellular connection to minimize disruption. Sure, when I\u2019d suddenly see a \u201cSlack is trying to connect\u201d message, I could pull out my phone and hop on the hotspot, but that only brought my laptop back online. My TVs, the computer in my studio, my kid\u2019s iPad, these all stayed connected to the now useless router.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Eero Signal comes in two versions: a 4G LTE model for $99.99 and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/13\/24269370\/at-t-t-mobile-redcap-5g-explained-iot-devices-coming-soon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5G RedCap<\/a> one for $199.99. But you\u2019ll also need an Eero Plus subscription ($9.99 a month, or $99.99 a year), which gets you 10 GB of backup data per year. If your wired internet is particularly unreliable, it might be worth considering an upgrade to Eero Plus 100, which gets you 100GB of backup data for $199.99.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">All of this is only useful to you if you\u2019ve bought into the whole (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/9\/20\/23882163\/amazon-eero-max-7-wi-fi-router-mesh-price-release-date\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rather pricey<\/a>) Eero ecosystem. Otherwise, you might need to stick to your phone\u2019s hotspot when the next storm takes out a telephone pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Eero Signal could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was dealing with regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9539,64,63,237,203,44,1996,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-121079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-5g","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}