How complicated do you want it? You can do unifi like the other response suggests for a flexible system you can customize. For something more plug and play I’m really liking the Tp-link deco 10000 or 11000. It has WiFi 7 and the speeds and stability has been great
I’ve been using Exetel paired with my TP-Link Deco Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6E Router and it’s been great. Feel free to use my referral code for $1 off your bill if signing up 😊 cheers
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I’ve been using Exetel paired with my TP-Link Deco Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6E Router and it’s been great. Feel free to use my referral code for $1 off your bill if signing up 😊 cheers
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Same experience, my Deco 6E mesh system running well w/ 4 satellites total through my house and garage.
I came from a Netgear single router and would have loved to have stayed with that brand, but the TP-Link cost was half what I would have spent on Netgear mesh.
Unpopular opinion: I did the ubqiuiti rabbit hole and it’s not worth it. They don’t update their hardware fast enough. When things failed it was a pain in the ass to get back up. I’d have to reboot the whole system more.
I put in a deco system at my sisters and was amazed how much faster it was than my network. I ripped out every one of the ubiquiti boxes, put in 2.5 gig managed switches, got deco 6e, pfsense router and have far less issues and money & time spent. Running them as just ap’s is great and I only need two now versus 3 ap’s with ubquity. I was able to upgrade my internet past the 1 gig to 3 gig plan now that I could actually hit those speeds. I have close to 70 devices on the network between iot, hosts and a nas. I can easily get over a gig on my phone now to the net and transfer files internally far faster. Save your money and time. Don’t go ubuiqiti. 20 year network admin here.
TP Link Deco 6e and Deco 7 have worked very well for us in two homes. The Deco app is very intuitive and easy to use. One of them (Deco 6e) has 26 components on it.
This link is to a post I made a few days ago about a feature to look for when shopping for mesh WiFi systems. Lots of dissenting opinions about the advice. But the indisputable fact is that I had connection issues with five components and the ability to manually select the WiFi band fixed them and they stayed fixed. Good luck!
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/s/L5Owua2okN
I also have two deco 6e units, that are hard wired together. They work very well with my 25+ Sonos devices. The only problem I’ve had with them is that around 2 - 2.5 years an Ethernet port died on one of them. Then a month or so later the same thing happened to the other one. I already had a large switch plugged into it so it’s not the end of the world for me. The good thing is any port can be used for in/out automatically. I still recommend them even with the ports that died since they go on sale often and are pretty reasonably priced.
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