Wps Button Eero

The five mesh routers that do not support wps are eero.

Wps button eero. Especially in the iot ecosystem. At this moment press and hold the wps button on the router for a couple of seconds. Device with wps and says wi fi protected setup allows you to.

Wps has security issues. If your router does not. Your network must use wi fi protected access wpa or wpa2 security and your router must support wps.

However there are a number of wps only client devices out there. Google eero luma and plume are some router brands that might not support wps. My printer canon pixma mx492 only supports wps connection.

You can also connect your printer wirelessly. Operating systems that support wps. Eero does not support wifi protected setup wps as it has well documented security issues.

Eero doesn t support wep wpa or wps as these protocols are known to be insecure. To push a wps button on a wi fi device to connect it to the network. Select wi fi protected setup select push button and then select start.

So putting security considerations aside there is no reason eero couldn t add support for push button wps via a firmware update. We also do not support older encryption standards like wep wpa or wpa2 tkip. A lot of newer wifi systems e g eero do not support wps which i generally think is a good thing.