I have bought a new house that is much larger than our current one. Currently I use a Netgear Nighthawk R6350 that covers the current 1200sqft ranch nicely from a central point in my basement. The new house is 3700sqft with a full basement and partial second floor in a bad cell reception area. I will be adding a cell booster but in my experience they are temperamental at best so a good wifi setup will be needed. The house was built in 2004 and from the few glances at the innards of it it doesn't appear to have much if any network or phone lines. We do Roku and Fire TV on all of our TV's and I have been getting into the smart home lighting thing.
I like the idea of doing a Ubiquiti setup but the price gouging for the basics or unavailability directly from Ubiquiti is off putting for what I think I need. I may do it eventually when they are not suffering from the chip shortage but in the mean time I am looking at using Netgear equipment. Short term I am thinking about using the Nighthawk mesh system. Has anyone used this or have an opinion on it?
I like the idea of doing a Ubiquiti setup but the price gouging for the basics or unavailability directly from Ubiquiti is off putting for what I think I need. I may do it eventually when they are not suffering from the chip shortage but in the mean time I am looking at using Netgear equipment. Short term I am thinking about using the Nighthawk mesh system. Has anyone used this or have an opinion on it?