Get one of these. https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cloud-gateways-compact
Add this to power access points: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/switching-utility/collections/pro-ultra/products/usw-ultra-60w
Then add a U6 Pro or U7 Pro. https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-flagship
No subscriptions needed. Beautiful interface to manage your entire network. Up to 8 different wifi SSIDs. You can keep your kids on one, iot on another, etc. Set different policies per network.
Unifi is great, but if you rely on wireless mesh backhaul, I think Eero performs better. If your home is wired for Ethernet and you can get the access points where you want them, then Unifi is the better overall system as long as you don’t mind tending to it. Unifi really seems designed for a setup with wired backhaul and ceiling mounted access points, which office buildings usually have and older homes may not.
In my experience, Eero is better in terms of wireless performance, but Unifi was better as a router. I had two Unifi U7 Pros and a Cloud Gateway Ultra. My two Eero Max 7s perform much better with wireless backhaul than Unifi did in comparison. 6ghz performance was also vastly better.
Unifi turned me off with their U7 Pros. They were flakey on launch day, then improved over the course of a year, but then very quickly they released a V2 U7 Pro with internal revisions (i.e., hardware fix) and then another newer variant (U7 XG Pro or something). They took forever to support MLO, and it was not available for mesh backhaul. This was my first Unifi system. Zero complaints about the gateway, features, etc., but wireless wasn’t great in my setup, even after setting up wired backhaul using MOCA adapters.
I use an Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway and have three Ubiquiti U7 Pro nodes on PoE spread throughout the house. It's been fantastic.
Really enjoy the UniFi software as well
A whole home Ubiquiti setup sounds up your alley. If you run Ethernet throughout your house, start with two of something like the U7 Pro or U7 Pro Wall (depending on whether or not you have an easier time mounting to your ceiling versus a gangbox). Feel free to mix and match units, preferably keeping them both at a distance where most devices stay within -70 dBm from each on 5 GHz. If you need more than, say, 4-5 Ethernet ports from a switch and something like a Cloud Gateway Ultra (gigabit only), Cloud Gateway Fiber, or Dream Router 7 (this one includes Wi-Fi, so make of that what you will) is lacking for that, add another UniFi switch of your choice. The “Wall” UniFi APs have Ethernet ports as well.
Do you have gigabit? Faster than gigabit? Have you run Ethernet throughout your home already? Do you currently have fiber or coax, and if the latter, do you have a cable modem already?
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Pro 6 Series
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Easy, reliable, smart home ready; but paid features.
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