UniFi Dream Wall (UDW)

Run Cat6 not CCA to every room, 3-4 cables for APs to do POE, 3-4 Ubiquiti APs, and then you can use a Ubiquiti Dream Wall (UDW) which is a router/POE switch/AP all in one. You can buy an additional power supply for the UDW for redundant power and place the UDW in one of the AP spots centrally located in order to reduce the cable length to each location. Mount your APs to the ceiling in their respective locations and POE them with the UDW. Ubiquiti also has a site survey tool, WiFiman, as well as a floorplan tool to assist you in AP placement for best coverage estimate. I would make sure to put your UDW on a UPS so that you have that protection as well as uptime. When you run your Cat6 make sure you pull a pull wire through with it for possible future use.

Function split 👍👍👍 One Unifi Cloud Gateway Fibre, along with a U7-Pro hanging from the ceiling being powered off the CGF's POE+ port.

I’ve tried to two or three of the Internet console based units, and have come back to my choice for business, unifi. The reason I made the jump from the Amazon EERO to the unify was an increase in speed from one gig to two gig. Wanted to take advantage of the increased throughput I have on the switch to fiber, and so I went with the 2.5 gig unify options. I would strongly recommend you get something that has an Internet based command and control for things like remote configuration, automatic updates and content filtering. We have a kid so it’s crucial for us to do the filtering. You can also do simple things like IDSIPS and other more advanced monitoring with these devices. In my experience, they are supported for a long long time, so the investment pays off in usable lifetime.

+1 for Ubiquiti if you want something simple enough that works out of the box with nice GUI and dashboards but also allows you to tinker. Their cloud gateways are a great place to start.

You could do one Asus router then run a cable across basement and do another Asus router in AI MESH mode. Or id setup Ubiquiti cloud gateway (any of the 3) and u7 lite then a cat 6 across basement to another u7 lite. You could test one nice asus router in the middle of the house basement or maybe the Ubiquiti Gateway with 1 U7 Pro or something in the middle and always have the option to add another of each too.