The challenge with dismissing the ‘elitist numpties’ (and I may be one myself) is that generally they’ve been there, done that etc. and they can read a spec sheet and sort the possibly nice wheat from the obviously ropey chaff. You might not like how
@Avalon posted what he did, but the kernel of what he posted is correct.
Cable > Wired Access Point > Mesh > Powerline
What the sales spiel of the various mesh systems don’t tell you is they all based on one of a couple of chipsets and, in the real world, they all perform similarly. People will always recommend the one they have used successfully, so you get many and varied recommendations, which is, in itself, confusing. And the thing is, most of these systems do a job. Most people are happy with their mesh and they’re not wrong to recommend what has made them happy. And it’s only the elite numpties who really love to pick apart the differences and find the ones that they, personally, think are least rubbish.
The Huawei system is interesting because Huawei have been cut off from the likes of Broadcom and Qualcomm and Intel so they’re now building their own chipsets and they’re probably quite good if their other products are anything to go by. So I’m going to buy one and test it. If it’s poo then I’ll report that. If it’s not then I’ll report that too.
And whatever you do, please don’t spend £600 on Orbi. It’s just patently early adopter tax and in 6 months time you’ll be able to buy something MUCH better for less than half that.