Do not buy a router provided by Telekom or Vodafone, IMO they are overpriced and not worth the money.
Do you know if you will have DSL or Fiber?
I can recommend the FRITZ!Box 7530 AX for DSL and the FRITZ!Box 5530 Fiber. I would buy them used on ebay or Kleinanzeigen. There you should get these models for under 120€
If you can wire APs with network cable, that's always the best option. Obviously buy the same type, Ideally with central management, like Unifi for example.
But for many, running the cable is just too tricky.
In a network engineer, but live in an old brick-built house with hardwood floors and plastered walls. So I do use a mesh system in my own house.
My ISP provided a FritzBox AX router, so I bought matching FritzBox mesh repeaters. This means I can make the router Master, and the repeaters all slaves, so I can manage and monitor everything through the router management page.
The mesh repeaters have an Ethernet socket, so in some locations (like my home office) I've got a network switch and some hard-wired networking. Most importantly, to my PC. Gives me a Gigabit connection to my router.
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