Optimize for Conferencing and Gaming (formerly Smart Queue Management)
Optimize for Conferencing and Gaming, formerly known as Smart Queue Management (SQM), intelligently shapes how wifi traffic is queued to reduce latency and limit the amount of bandwidth certain devices use. For busy networks, this can improve the quality of voice, video calls, and online gaming.
Optimize for Conferencing and Gaming makes the most difference with wifi activities that require high bandwidth and low latency. For example, when you’re streaming 4K video while also browsing the web or playing a video game. While Optimize for Conferencing and Gaming ensures every device still has bandwidth access, you may see slower performance on certain devices.
Optimize for Conferencing and Gaming requires an eero network not placed in bridge mode. Learn more.
Local DNS Caching
We use names, like eero.com, to surf the web. Computers instead rely on numbers. DNS turns domain names into IP addresses—similar to how phone books used to map business names to phone numbers. Local DNS caching stores this information at the network-level, speeding up page loads and providing a faster internet experience.
This feature requires an eero network not placed in bridge mode. Learn more.
WPA3
Get added security for connected devices that support the WPA3 standard—the latest in wifi encryption. By enabling WPA3, eero can also transition any devices that do not support WPA3 to instead use the WPA2 standard. Certain devices may not be capable of backward compatibility and won’t be able to connect if WPA3 is turned on. To determine whether a device uses the WPA3 standard, check its details in the eero app.
For more information on WPA3, please see this article dedicated to WPA3.