I’ve got a set of BQ16s. HomeKit works great with them. I’ve got concrete floors as well which really impacts the WiFi strength everywhere. Not using Ethernet backhaul either.
Speed of them are fantastic as well. I’ve got 900mb down / 100 up. And the furthest point away from a node, I’m getting 500 down / 100 up on my phone. Everywhere else is 800-900 down.
I’ve actually got 3. 3 floor townhouse, concrete floors and 0 desire to hardwire them as looking to move in the near future.
The 3 units give me coverage and speed everywhere.
I followed the dongknows review and setup of them, seems to have worked well.
My dream previously was to get Eeros. But the moment Amazon bought them I decided not to. I try to limit support (for many reasons) of Amazon, but their approach to privacy is what really put me off. I just can’t believe that at some point, they won’t be logging something that is conveniently shared with another aspect of the conglomerate.
And yeah… I know thats the case with 99% of big companies, but you’ve got to try and pick some battles 😅
I originally had 2 and they worked fine. Floor 1 and 3. But then I realised that hard-wiring in Apple TV, PlayStation etc on floor 2 into a node got me sustained 900mb down and 100mb up (exactly what I pay for) over the node-node connection, was worth it for me.
First went with an Asus Zenwifi BQ16 (2 packs) which provided excellent performance and coverage but later replaced it with ubiquiti UDR7 + UX7 as AP because my home lab required more network features such as local DNS which I didn't want to run on a docker server or use DNS services such as cloudflare.
Both would be an overkill for your bandwidth so you can look at WiFi 6 mesh unless you're going to upgrade your bandwidth in the future which you currently don't need.
You can look at Asus Pro ET12 or BT8 unless you need more then welcome to the Unifi ecosystem
I have 2 ASUS bq16. In a 3 story town house. 1 top floor. 1 bottom floor. I’m getting a 4000mbit back haul connection. And 900mbit WiFi speed throughout my house (on a gigabit line speed)
Powerline is not and mixed depending on your electric ring. And if your upstairs is on a different ring the speed will be awful.
I have ASUS bq16 for mesh AP in a 3 story house. I get 4000mbit backhaul over 3 floors which delivers a solid 800-900mbit WiFi speed on a gigabit line
I have psychic scars from my old Netgear Orbi system that I could never get stable. By contrast I hardly ever look at the Asus. Sometimes I get twitchy that I’m not checking up on it so I do and it is always rock solid. I don’t even regularly reboot. The only issues I’ve had have been from my ISP. Not from the Asus.
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