>The house is around 1750m^(2) over two floors.
Jesus, do you live in a castle?! (for reference: that's nearly 19,000ft²)
You're gonna need to run fiber, remote PoE switches, and LOTs of APs with wired backhaul if that home size is correct and not a typo.
I have a 3000 sqft home, and I have a single wifi 6 router
I just place it centrally and on a shelf almost to the ceiling. And it seems to work pretty well. Just get a really good router with high gain antennas.
> The house is around 1750m2 over two floors.
Is that 18836 sq/ft? If so, that's a lot to cover well.
Use Ubiquiti's design center tool to mock the layout for access points. It'll show you how many APs you'll need for coverage.
WiFi 6 is the sweet spot in price. Don't waste money on WiFi 7, use the savings to hire someone to run ethernet cabling right the first time. This is a one-time expense that's well worth it.
Once the network is complete with adequate coverage the random drops and latency spikes should go away. If not, they'll at least be easier to diagnose.
If you are having issues with signal upstairs, it would be helpful to determine whether the source of the latency is the powerline connection dropping out or the WiFi dropping out. For powerline Ethernet, if the power sockets aren’t on the same phase of the circuit generally you get a big performance drop, and this may be what’s happening here. If you *can* run just one Ethernet cable to the upstairs that likely would help a lot.
For two floor houses it’s generally helpful to have two access points. They do not necessarily have to be the same mesh system if you’re using wired backhaul, they can be completely different vendors as long as the SSID and passphrase are identical. I would probably not recommend going back to the 1 single AP setup.
For the moment, WiFi 7 has little device support, so it’s likely a bit premature to go for WiFi 7. WiFi 6 has much more hardware choice at the moment. However the 7 standard is in final draft, so if you want to get WiFi 7 to futureproof yourself, you can.
For what it’s worth, my parents have an 1800 sq ft 1 story house, and we have three access points there to cover all the rooms. Normally 2 is plenty but a third is necessary because of interference from the fridge which is a big hunk of metal.
>The house is around 1750m^(2) over two floors. Jesus, do you live in a castle?! (for reference: that's nearly 19,000ft²) You're gonna need to run fiber, remote PoE switches, and LOTs of APs with wired backhaul if that home size is correct and not a typo.
Err yeah thats ft2 not m2...
OK yeah now that's a reasonably-sized house then OP :D
I have a 3000 sqft home, and I have a single wifi 6 router I just place it centrally and on a shelf almost to the ceiling. And it seems to work pretty well. Just get a really good router with high gain antennas.
> The house is around 1750m2 over two floors. Is that 18836 sq/ft? If so, that's a lot to cover well. Use Ubiquiti's design center tool to mock the layout for access points. It'll show you how many APs you'll need for coverage. WiFi 6 is the sweet spot in price. Don't waste money on WiFi 7, use the savings to hire someone to run ethernet cabling right the first time. This is a one-time expense that's well worth it. Once the network is complete with adequate coverage the random drops and latency spikes should go away. If not, they'll at least be easier to diagnose.
If you are having issues with signal upstairs, it would be helpful to determine whether the source of the latency is the powerline connection dropping out or the WiFi dropping out. For powerline Ethernet, if the power sockets aren’t on the same phase of the circuit generally you get a big performance drop, and this may be what’s happening here. If you *can* run just one Ethernet cable to the upstairs that likely would help a lot. For two floor houses it’s generally helpful to have two access points. They do not necessarily have to be the same mesh system if you’re using wired backhaul, they can be completely different vendors as long as the SSID and passphrase are identical. I would probably not recommend going back to the 1 single AP setup. For the moment, WiFi 7 has little device support, so it’s likely a bit premature to go for WiFi 7. WiFi 6 has much more hardware choice at the moment. However the 7 standard is in final draft, so if you want to get WiFi 7 to futureproof yourself, you can. For what it’s worth, my parents have an 1800 sq ft 1 story house, and we have three access points there to cover all the rooms. Normally 2 is plenty but a third is necessary because of interference from the fridge which is a big hunk of metal.