I’m a home networking newbie and would appreciate any advice folks have. I got my house wired for ethernet, but have some areas I was hoping to improve the wifi for my mobile devices with a wired backhaul setup.
I tried looking through the posts here and it seems like most folks don’t recommend going with the mesh systems as it’s paying a premium for a wireless backhaul that I wouldn’t be using. It also sounds like I shouldn’t use any random access points as handoffs between them may not work efficiently. That said, what devices do folks recommend? I saw ubiquity come up a couple times, but wasn’t sure if there were cheaper and/or better options?
Any old router that you have lying around the house, or can be picked up locally secondhand for no or minimal cost can probably be put in access point mode.
I don’t see the question as "what do I need’, but “how do I make it work with what I’ve got”.
The access point I have in my garden office, for example, is an old TPLink AX50, which has done it’s time as a router and is now an access point. Nothing wrong with it.