U6 Mesh Pro

If you have Ethernet access in every room and assuming they all lead back to a central point where your BGW 320 is, you could have a main switch connect everything. Edit: Also assuming cabling is good/will support Gbit speeds. And/Or wireless AP(s). I like the UniFi Pro 6 with a CloudKey+ and POE switch.

Initial setup was just simply using my phone with their app to Bluetooth setup the cloud key. Then you just go through the app or web interface to adopt the AP’s and whatever else you may have. Firmware updates are automatic which is nice. WiFi has been stable. I did check the channels to find the least busy one and turned off auto optimize since it seems to put you back on the busiest channels. I recently added another AP after we moved. Roaming between the two is pretty seamless. Logs are nice.

I use 2 U6 Meshes specifically for their tabletop form factor and the number of 5GHz spatial streams. When I first set them up, they were both meshed and everything was fine. Interference was a bit high. I've got one wired now and it happens to do most of the heavy lifting in my house. The second one is meshed to the first and performs well but typically there are less than 10 devices connected to it. FYI the U6 Mesh APs do get hot to the touch.

Oh, I mean they operated completely fine as meshed units. I have been very happy with them. I have plans to run POE to the second one but haven't had the time and the priority is low since they operate just fine for home networking as mesh units. To be clear, any of Unifi's APs can work as a meshed device as long as you are getting power to it using a POE AC Adapter. 20/20 hindsight, it was super easy to run POE for the one on my first floor and I wish I had gone with a U6 In-Wall because I now have a need for additional ports.

It’s not that UniFi is a bad mesh system. It’s that if you’re already resorting to mesh instead of wired backhaul, IMO there are better solutions that are easier to use and cost less. Eero is widely known as basically a completely bulletproof mesh system. High throughput, excellent range, incredibly easy setup. There’s a reason a lot of fiber ISPs are starting to provide Eeros - they’re great and continue to be great even above the 1Gbps WAN mark. The advantage of Ubiquiti systems is that they perform extremely well, even better than Eero because there’s less latency and no bandwidth loss per hop, but that advantage comes only when wired. Once you go mesh, you get all the downsides of a typical mesh connection but you also have the increased complexity of the UI interface versus something like Eero or Orbi. And also increased cost - a UDR7 plus two U6 Mesh’s, for example, is $740 plus you need PoE injectors for the Mesh’s, so make that $750 at a minimum. And that’s an extremely basic mesh network designed for every single mesh node to be placed literally anywhere just like an Eero or Orbi system - no wall mount APs with weird rear facing dead zones or APs that require a ceiling mount so you might as well have run Ethernet in the first place. You can get three Eero Pro 7’s that blow that UI setup out of the water performance wise for $549, and you get dual 5GbE ports on each endpoint to support probably as fast a connection as anyone using mesh Wi-Fi will want for the next few years at least. UniFi is great. But if you’re using it in mesh, you’re giving up a lot of its advantages compared to simpler and more proven mesh-first systems.

Okay, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I've set up both UI mesh systems and Eero systems and what you're saying is just not accurate. Ubiquiti is absolutely NOT plug-and-play. There's a lot of settings that are preconfigured by Eero (like channels, bandwidth, security, etc) that you have to manually configure on a UI system or you won't get the same performance. In addition, the Ubiquiti interface locks some settings behind the desktop interface and won't let you adjust them in the mobile app. Eero is a mobile app-first UI - it's simpler, but also doesn't ever require you to go out to desktop. On top of all that, any Eero can be the base router node, which is not the case for Ubiquiti unless you're using all UX7's. But if you're using three UX7's, then if you take a look at the [Rtings testing for the UX7 versus the (now $50 cheaper) Eero Pro 7](https://www.rtings.com/router/tools/compare/eero-pro-7-vs-unifi-express-7/94825/96633), you'll notice the UX7 absolutely eats beans compared to the Eero on range so you might as well buy the Eero for best performance.

Disagree. It is well supported and works with the same caveats as any wireless mesh system. There are products e.g. U6-Mesh that are designed specifically with wireless mesh in mind.

It has "Mesh" right in the name :) Seriously though, IMO the antenna radiation pattern is more favorable for mesh Wifi than ceiling-mounted access points and the 4x4 MIMO on the 5GHz band allows some degree of beam forming to provide better connection the other access point. I have tried using both a U6-LR and a U6-Mesh in a wireless backhaul mode and the U6-Mesh performed remarkably better. I was a bit surprised by this. YMMV

Any Ubiquiti Access Point and most of their wifi-enabled gateways can be used as wireless mesh clients, and Ubiquiti mesh works really well. I'm personally using 3 "Ubiquiti U6-Mesh" units in my house (I bought them for the form factor, any Unifi Access Point will work), 1 as my primary Access Point and 2 as wireless mesh clients to provide wired network connectivity to remote areas of my house. My firewall / router is a Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra and I'm using its built-in Network app to manage my access points. At one end of my house I have the access point (U6-Mesh) plugged into and powered by a smart managed Netgear PoE Ethernet switch, with my server and a printer connected via wire to the Ethernet switch. This setup is connected via mesh to my main Access Point. At the other end of my house I have a similar setup with a U6-Mesh and Netgear PoE switch, with my primary desktop PC connected via wire to the switch, and this setup is also connected via mesh to my primary Access Point. You could also do something as simple as computer <---> PoE Injector <---> Ubiquiti Access Point. My setup works perfectly for my application. I don't use the endpoint mesh U6-Mesh units as wifi repeaters and they are only providing the mesh backhaul to the primary Access Point using their 5GHz radios. Throughput from server to PC to server is great. VLAN tagging works over Unifi mesh and I have a couple of virtual machines running on my server that are on the tagged VLAN networks. Ubiquiti is a really nice cost effective solution if you need wireless mesh / bridging.