Your eero comes with a clever app that pairs devices with profiles. This means you can set up different accounts for different people– just like you do on Netflix.  

Amazon’s eero Pro 6E router is a super smart bit of kit. It gives you the fastest Wi-Fi speeds all around your home, and can keep 100+ devices connected without breaking a sweat.  

Plus, the eero app makes everything super easy to set up – and this is where you can create profiles to manage internet access for everyone at home. Here are 3 simple ways you can use them.  

Your eero has lots of handy parental control options – from blocking domains to balancing screen time. When you set up a family profile, you can create internet access schedules, pause kids’ internet access at bedtime and set aside digital-free family or homework time.  

Just as a reminder, you may still have to keep an eye on their internet activity when they switch to 4G or 5G.  

WFH is great for many of us – but sometimes, it can be tough to actually switch off at the end of the day. When you create an eero profile with just your work devices added, you can set a schedule to pause the internet on those devices when you finish work. So you can walk the dog, do a yoga session and try out that new recipe you’ve been eyeing up.  

3. Not too hot, not too cold, but juuuust right. 

Are your teens a bit trigger-happy with the thermostat? You can take back control of your living room’s temperature and mood by adding smart heating and lighting devices to a separate eero profile.  

Alexa, make the living room temperature just the way I like it. 

Profiles are just one of many features of your eero  - we’ve written more about them here.  

3 ways eero profiles make your life easier 

From kids’ screentime to logging off work, your eero keeps you in control of devices without even having to think about it. 

Your very own content blocking super eero

Gambling, adult content, deep fakes…it’s not just cat videos that can be seriously addictive online. That’s why the eero router we provide at Cuckoo has a number of built-in safety features to block and restrict the internet nasties.

Holding out for an eero (and its security features)

When you join our flock, we’ll give you a free super smart eero Pro 6E worth £249.99 This little white box of tricks really packs a punch and will have your home broadband working smoothly at up to 900Mbps.

It can keep over 100 devices connected without breaking a sweat and if you have dead spots, you can simply add more eeros to create a powerful mesh network throughout your home.

But the eero isn't just about power. It also comes with a comforting range of security features, including the ability to block content from devices.

Read on to find out three easy ways to block content and keep you and your loved ones safe.

1.    It’s all under (parental) control

Who knows what your kids are looking at when they’re on the internet in their rooms? As the online world changes fast, it’s hard to know how to keep up. 

One way to take back control is through the eero. All you have to do is set up a family profile on the eero app. Then open the ‘discover’ tab, open ‘parental controls’ and select ‘filter templates’. Choose from pre-school, pre-teen, teen and adult. You can then customise the settings as much as you like.

If you don’t want them spending all their time on TikTok (or any app), with eero you can simply block it from their profiles.

And this isn’t just a good trick for keeping children safe. If you’ve got your own teeny problem with Vinted, want absolute control of the heating controls (MOO HA HA!) or just don’t want to see the football scores on BBC Sport, app blocking comes in handy for grown-ups too.

Once you’ve set up your profiles, choose ‘block apps’ from the profile section and go wild.

If the whining gets too loud, you can unblock apps again any time. It’s a good option if you simply want to give them a pause from social media or dish out a punishment more effective than being ‘grounded’.

With the eero app, you can also block websites you’d rather they didn't visit. Just like blocking apps, it’s easy to build a list of offenders that you want to ban.

More security features than you can shake a stick at

These days, we store so much of our lives online. And access to this should be in the hands of one person only. You. That’s why eero’s packed with additional security features for your protection.

Keep all your family’s devices safe from online threats like phishing and viruses. Just switch on ‘Advanced security’ from the ‘Discover’ tab in your eero app.

If you’ve had enough of annoying ads from Google and Facebook (not ours, obviously), switch on ‘Ad Blocking’ from the ‘Discover’ tab in your eero app.

To keep a beady eye on how well your filters and security measures are doing and how many threats have been neutralised, check out the ‘Activity Centre’.

Kill those dead spots with an extra eero (or 4)

Our fast, fair, feel-good full fibre broadband comes with one free eero Pro 6E router worth £249.99. If you have dead spots where the signal is dodgy, you can add up to three more eero’s for just £7 a month each. Using TrueMesh technology, they’ll work together intelligently to spread Wi-Fi all over your home. 

Whether it’s catching up with mates, getting your hits on TikTok or finally mastering that ‘double under’ jump rope trick, we all love a bit of internet. But it also has a dark side. Luckily, the same bit of kit that gets you online can also help keep you safe from it.

Three ways to block content with eero

If you have a dead spot, you can also connect multiple eeros together to create a mesh network to carry a strong signal into every corner of your home. There are no boring booklets or complicated steps to get you set up. It all starts with the eero app. 

Once you’ve downloaded it, you can run everything from your smartphone. Just follow the simple instructions and you’re good to go. 

From parental controls to smart home integration, the eero is bursting with features. Here are our top five… 

If somebody needs the Wi-Fi code, you don’t have to scribble it on a Post-it note or give them that funny little plastic card from the back of your router. With the eero app, you can share the details with one click. 

But when you share your Wi-Fi, you’re actually sharing your entire network. If you’d rather keep things a bit more secure, you can create a guest network with a separate log-in. 

Guest networks are a useful way to control what your visitors can access and for how long. With the added bonus of making you feel all techy. All you have to do is: 

2. Separate profiles for separate folks 

Profiles is a handy feature to help you control your network and all the devices on it. You can create different profiles for different users by following the simple steps below. Then you can add specific devices to a profile, set usage schedules and even pause the internet.  

Each device can only be added to one profile so think about the best way to allocate them. To get started:  

📱  Open the Home tab in the eero app 

From there you can get really creative. Our short blogs will tell you how. 

3. Keep kids safe with parental controls 

Keeping your kids safe online is every parent’s nightmare. eero Secure makes it a little bit easier. Whether they’re browsing, gaming or streaming videos, advanced content filtering means you can block harmful content easily.  

You can also create family profiles (see above) which let you set pauses on your children’s devices and block inappropriate apps. 

📱 Open your eero app and head to the discover section

👤 Tap on a profile you would like to setup content filters for. 

🔏 Select a filter level that fits your profile's needs. 

🤓 Review what settings will be filtered by default for the filter level selected. 

✅ Tap on “Apply” to confirm the filter level. 

Internet Backup is the feature we hope you’ll never have to use. It means your network can instantly switch to a mobile hotspot if your broadband fails. So you can carry on streaming, gaming and video calling until the outage is over. All you have to do is:  

📱 Open your eero app. Click Internet and then eero Internet Backup 

🌐 Make sure your backup network’s available (if you’re using a mobile hotspot, make sure it’s turned on), then click Add backup network 

🔍 Click Search networks and then your backup network when it appears 

⛓ You can add up to 8 backup networks 

If you have an internet dead spot in your home, eero Built-in can help. Because it turns some Echo devices into Wi-Fi extenders, helping you extend your network coverage in just a few clicks.  

To make it work, you’ll need a compatible eero gateway device and a compatible Echo device. And you have to link your eero and Amazon accounts. Then: 

🔘 Click on Amazon Connected Home and connect to Amazon 

🔑 Enter your Amazon sign-in credentials 

Switch to Cuckoo and you’ll get a free super smart eero worth £249.99 as standard. 

Depending on how big your home is, you can add more eero’s for just £7 a month each to create an intelligent TrueMesh network that works in every room. 

The eero Pro 6E router is built for speed. And security. And reliability. And simplicity. And, well, everything you ever wanted your router to be. It can keep over 100 devices connected without breaking a sweat. So you can stream, game and WFH at the same time.   

5 ways to supercharge your broadband with eero

Thanks to the latest eero Pro 6E router included with all our broadband packages, we're able to make mesh Wi-Fi is available to all our customers. So in this guide we’ll explain what it is and how to get the most out of it.

It’s pretty simple really. Mesh Wi-Fi extends a reliable broadband connection to the areas of your home where the signal is poor. Instead of relying on just one router to transmit the signal, it uses several of them, dotted around the building. (The additional routers are sometimes called nodes). 

They ‘talk’ to each other to create a network (or mesh) and give you and your family fast, reliable coverage wherever you are. It’s perfect for larger homes, offices or buildings with lots of rooms and walls. 

By using a number of individually powered routers rather than just one. They connect together, transmitting and receiving data to create a strong, seamless Wi-Fi network a bit like a  spider’s web in every part of the building. Including all the hard-to-reach bits. The clever thing is your phone, tablet or laptop barely notices  the difference in signal strength as you move between them and you can stay connected as you go

Compared to using a single router, mesh Wi-Fi is better in lots of ways:

●	Faster average device speeds compared to traditional Wi-Fi extenders or powerline adapters  

●	Increased reliability – if one router drops out, the others can try and find another path

●	It’s easy to add routers to expand the mesh network to create wider coverage

●	Extends coverage without reducing bandwidth, unlike existing Wi-Fi range extenders

●	Only one router needs to be wired – the others can connect wirelessly

Of course, you have to buy the additional routers and they need their own power sockets but overall, it’s well worth it. 

Unless you’ve upgraded recently, your router probably doesn’t have mesh capability. You’ll need one that can broadcast signal on multiple channels in an intelligent way. 

Or you could simply switch to Cuckoo, as we only supply the latest  mesh-capable eero Pro 6E routers. The eero is cleverly designed to work as a main router or as a mesh Wi-Fi extender. The main one is included in your initial price . You can then add as many additional eeros as you need and control the whole thing from an easy-to-use smartphone app. 

This all depends on your home: how big it is, what it’s built with, the layout of the rooms and what’s in them. All these things affect where to place your routers and how well they’ll perform. This shows how to do it and, er, how not to. 

Every router is roughly the same distance from the others. So they can both connect easily and the signal can find the easiest path back to the main router. Which means fast, reliable broadband all over your home. 

The router on the second floor is too far from the main router. So the link between them will be weaker and slower which could cause dropouts. If the router on the first floor fails, the weakest link becomes the only link.

●	Make sure the distance between routers is more or less equal, and as short as possible

●	Think about where any other equipment is that might interfere with the connection  (like a microwave)

●	Check the building materials used in your home – solid brick or stone will seriously reduce the distance your Wi-Fi signal can travel

This all depends on the size and layout of your home.

An average two-bedroom house will normally need one to two routers, so you can put one on each side of the building. If you own a larger three-bedroom home, you’ll probably need two to three routers.

When you‘ve set them up, test each room to see how fast the Wi-Fi speed is, including downloads and uploads.  It doesn’t take long and our previous guide will show you how. If it’s a bit slow or completely drops out in a certain spot, try moving the closest router. Or add an extra one. It’s that easy.

Buffering  in the boxroom? Dead spot in the dining room? Laa..aa..agg  on the lawn? We’ve all been there. When your so-called home Wi-Fi doesn’t reach every corner of your home, let alone the garden. But help is at hand. And it’s called mesh Wi-Fi. 

3 ways eero profiles make your life easier

First off… what’s an eero?

1. Control your kids’ internet use

2. Log off – for real

3. Not too hot, not too cold, but juuuust right.

Find out what else your eero can do

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