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  • If you want “solid Wi-Fi performance”, go with a prosumer setup such as Ubiquiti UniFi or TP-Link Omada. You would wire APs as needed to provide coverage in the house. Anything less - including mesh, and wiring mesh, is going to be less than what you stated you want. The only advantage to wiring mesh (which makes it not mesh) is the management of the network (and both UniFi and Omada are centrally managed when you have the requisite controller. To me, it’s pointless to be spending money on a system that where you’re going to disable the whole reason it’s marketed - the mesh (which is wirelessly uplinking). Cabling access points and wiring as many of your devices as possible is where the best performance and reliability comes from.

    Wifi 6 only helps with client devices that are wifi 6 compatible (or for mesh wireless backhauling that is also wifi 6 compliant). It does not help any previous (wifi 5, wifi4 etc.) client protocols. However - wifi 6 is becoming ubiquitous and you may not be saving much money by looking for wifi 5 deals. Or, in other words - it doesn’t hurt to have wifi 6 devices.



  • Yes, each switch has the upstream port connected to your router. Unused ports are not a waste.

    IF you have gigabit ethernet ports on everything, there is no real bottleneck. You won’t saturate - i.e. fill the connection - because you don’t run everything at full blast at the same time. Most home devices take VERY little bandwidth. Even your streaming devices are relatively low. If you have something that is higher bandwidth you could put it directly on a router port, but it’s not likely you will notice much.