Instant Wi-Fi System

I used amplifi mesh with 4 points for about 8 years and it was still fine. Recently moved to a smaller house and don’t need as much coverage and new provider uses eero. Amplifi went through brick to the outdoor patios. It was terrific. Very much plug and play with no hiccups. I like the eero app for turning off WiFi to teenagers on school nights. :) Miss the amplifi cube for monitoring activity. All that said, I bought the amplifi 8 years ago so it’s probably outdated, but it was muscular enough to get four of us through working and schooling from home through the pandemic and beyond.

Stability issues for certain clients, limits on client number (LOW limits) I have An Amplifi Instant setup just for my kid to not use Deco. It's speed limited, but we are off FiOS 300/300 and on Comcast. The app thing is just annoying. OH. You NEED a Router between ISP modem in bridge mode and Decos or your LAN goes down when the ISP does. Despite the Amplifi Instant being App based, I'd go with a modern one. I really need to get opnWRT working. Then, WiFi is AP only. I wish wifi worked in those rooms

I switched from Amplifi mesh to Linksys mesh several years ago and have been very happy with it. I put a tp-link ER605 switch/router in front of it to provide the vpn connectivity and boost my throughput.

I'm replacing my Amplifi system because Amplifi doesn't seem up to matching our new fiber capabilities. I tried Eero yesterday and it's not configurable to my network's IP scheme. I'm too lazy to reconfigure every device with a static IP. Got Deco this morning and it won't let me change the DNS to my Pi-hole. I also can't find how to create device groups for turning off network connections at specific times. I have an 11 y/o who thinks it's ok to get up in the middle of the night and watch TV all night.

WiFi extenders are better than nothing… but barely. You want a mesh system. And if at all possible you want to give the mesh nodes wired backhaul. Eero, Orbi, Amplifi, etc.

We just bought extra Starlink routers. Despite what I heard here about them I found them quite good, they all mesh together. You can also run a cable from one to another. We have a more complex system with 2 routers in the main house meshed by air (opposite sides of the house on the ground floor and the loft), then ubiquity nano beam, then 2 more routers connected by cable to cover our outbuildings. No problem. We tried amplify as a main router with Starlink router put in bypass mode, and for some reason the speed was less than 1/3-1/2 of what “native” Starlink integration gave us.