Amazon is turning your Alexa smart speaker into a Wi-Fi extender
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Amazon has announced that its new Alexa-powered Echo smart speakers will help boost your home’s Wi-Fi signal strength. A few of its older Echo models will also get the feature.
At the Amazon Launch Event in September 2022, the retail and device giant unveiled a new feature called Eero in Echo, which should help its best smart speakers get even better by acting as Wi-Fi extenders.
New Echo devices, such as the recently announced Amazon Echo Dot (5th generation), as well as the older Amazon Echo (2020) and Amazon Echo Dot (2020), can now help boost the Wi-Fi signal in your home by being part of your Eero mesh WiFi installation.
Mesh Wi-Fi systems integrate with your home’s existing Wi-Fi router for better coverage throughout your home, and generally outperform traditional extenders to ensure you get good internet speeds in larger properties.
Looks like you’ll still need some Eero Wi-Fi extenders from Amazon, like the Eero Home Wi-Fi System. But if you have some of Amazon’s latest smart speakers, it should hopefully be a lot cheaper to get full mesh Wi-Fi coverage throughout your home.
Now that the new Amazon Echo devices have been announced, we expect older models, such as Amazon Echo (2020) and Amazon Echo Dot (2020), to be discounted during the upcoming Amazon Prime Day 2 sale in October. If our suspicion is correct, you should be able to pick up these older Eero-compatible smart speakers for a discounted price and create a budget-friendly mesh WiFi setup.
Alternatively, if you just can’t wait, check out the best Amazon Echo deals available right now and give your Wi-Fi signal an instant boost.