I have 4 direct wired eero PRO 6 units and a lot of IOT devices.
I need to access some of my machines/Docker Containers remotly.
Everyone is saying to use a wireguard VPN. I see that eero has one but not sure if it will give me full remote access to my network from my windows 11 laptop, or my iPhone so I can manage my docker containers (portainer), Raspberry PI5, and home server.
Check out tailscale. It’s wireguard-based and a good fit for this use case.
This is much harder to do with Eero versus an alternative like Ubiquiti. Eero’s VPN (Guardian) option does not provide VPN access back to your network. It drops you off to one of the VPN’s POPs. Plus, I’ve had issues with Guardian on my devices compared to WireGuard.
Ubiquiti, for example, uses WireGuard and will provide VPN access back to your home network. You might be able to use one of the newly released Ubiquiti gateways to front-end your network to provide VPN access and then port-forward through your Eero to your devices.
Another option is to host a VPN server inside your network and port forward to the VPN server inside your network.
The Ubiquiti solution is much cleaner approach for this. Eero is really not designed to do this and would require some tweaking to make it work.
Recomendations on a Ubiquiti router/wifi? I keep thinking it might be time to move away from eero. also does Ubiquiti have an app?
Candidly, if you are looking to do more complex configurations beyond what Eero does natively, it is probably best to make the move to something else. The general move in that case is to Ubiquiti. I switch back and forth between Eero and Ubiquiti setups.
The easiest setup to replace what you’re doing today would be a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE and (4) U6 Pro APs. The UDM-SE provides PoE for the APs. I wouldn’t upgrade or spend the money on the U6 Enterprise or U7 Pro’s.
Alternatively, there is a new Cloud Gateway Ultra (no PoE) that you could pair with their new Ultra switch (8-port PoE). I just don’t know if the UCG-Ultra support the VPN like the UDM-SE does. You’re looking at $260 then versus $500 for the UDM-SE alone. But then again, the UDM-SE has other functionality for expansion and growth. And runs the other non-network apps.