eero max 7 - no port forwarding

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or is it all eero's? there's quite a few threads about it. no matter what and whichever port number i set it (checking if it's reserved or not from online articles), can't get it to work with or without firewall rules. seems many complain about this and share the eero just fails to fix it. oddly i registered for community to ask and after 4 days, still nada on my registration. i tried calling them yesterday but after 30 mins of waiting, i gave up. this was different from netgear and my orbi though i'm usually pretty self sufficient and prefer online communities and researching online to fix stuff.

what is weird is that i tried another network restart yesterday. there is no desktop browser support and one has to use the mobile app, and only the mobile app. i cannot restart it after changing again the port forward config. what i realized is that the way the restart seems to be isn't local but rather its sent up to eero and then sent down. i highly suspect this is the case because on the greeting when i called, they shared they are experiencing issues and cannot add new devices. this is a no no for me on top of mobile only.

some pluses though like many vids out there. all 3 are routers so you can start with anything. it worked well with an eero wifi extension since it's still a tad weak in the driveway when the nearest satellite is maybe 60 ft away (but near the window) and just around the garage corner. setup is very easy but the mobile app is a pita and you cannot save configuration when assigning IPs and other stuff. great for those with very basic needs and i consider port forwarding basic but it failed there miserably. after a week of trying, i gave up. oddly i got it to work one night at 1230am but in the morning it didn't work again using online tools like can you see me to check if the port is open.

strange though that the SO's machine is connecting to the wifi extender in the garage and crossing the wall vs. the one in the living room where it just crosses a door.

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Port forwarding is bad. Bots scour the internet looking for open ports and try to gain entry to your network.

One problem with routers aimed at the consumer market is the inability to access basic router functions. Sometimes mesh systems load balance in a way that makes no sense. Eero is basically plug and play designed for any moron to setup their own mesh network.

I use Unifi systems that give me more control than my ability, but it is also very easy to tweak. I only open two ports, one as a trap and the other that uses an external port that routes to a different internal port. A hacker can see the external port, but would need to guess the internal port number, which would take thousands of attempts. Their IP subnet gets blocked after one attempt, so assuming the external and internal ports are the same gets them blocked before they can try multiple ports.

Scour the internet to see if Eero has a back door that you can access locally. Cloud interaction is also creepy and gets totally screwed up when systems go down like the recent Crowdstrike outage.

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P... the other that uses an external port that routes to a different internal port. A hacker can see the external port, but would need to guess the internal port number, which would take thousands of attempts. Their IP subnet gets blocked after one attempt, so assuming the external and internal ports are the same gets them blocked before they can try multiple port.

the eero did have that feature - external and internal ports. when i realized there's a dependency on their system to do a proper restart, that's a no go. oddly none of the reviews cover that as a negative and loss of control.

[OlderThanDirt]

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oh i did that. i also did it in sequence when restarting, or more like re-plugging in (router, satellites 1x1 + the wifi extender last).

but i wasn't sure if it was "saving" config changes I did because i did it the old fashion way. btw, i can't tell if it saved configs. didn't see an option to backup or restore configs. i dislike returning even so for big ticket items. it just became a pita to deal with. i don't mind posting in communities for 4 days after and i still can't post? meh.. it indicated something about their support capability.

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