Last year I ditched Verizon’s “dumpster router” for an Eero 6 Plus, and it was a big improvement—until it wasn’t. After almost a year of random disconnects, smart home devices being weird, and way too many customer service calls, I finally admitted my smart home wasn’t the problem… my network was. In this video I kick Eero to the curb and move to the TP-Link Deco BE67 (Wi‑Fi 7) and walk through the very specific, one-to-one reasons I switched—because they’re the same pain points you’ll hit once your smart home starts growing. The biggest wake-up call was speed, but not internet speed—local network speed. Eero’s 1Gb ports became a bottleneck the second I started leaning on my NAS (Plex, Homebridge, and yes, the Home Assistant install “by accident”). Deco’s 10Gb WAN + 2.5Gb LAN let me actually use my 2.5Gb NAS and a 2.5Gb switch, so file transfers immediately jumped to about 2.5x what I was seeing before. Then there’s the smart home quality-of-life stuff: picking a preferred node, forcing 2.4GHz for picky devices, and not having to play the “temporarily disable 5GHz” game just to add a 2.4-only light. If you’re not going full UniFi, this is the kind of foundation that makes everything else in your smart home feel better.