UbiQuiti Cloud Gateway Max - advice pls.

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Hi again everyone,

I have posted a few times on this part of the forum recently as I am about to make the move to City Fibre (IDNet) with a 1200 Mbps connection.

Having considered a few routers from the likes of Asus, Netgear and TP-Link, I am now looking at a Ubiquiti solution.

The Cloud Gateway Max looks good as this has both 2.5G WAN and LAN ports, my PC is in the same room and will be connected to it by Ethernet. Then I would like to hook up a Wi-Fi access point in the same room and I hope this will be strong enough to provide a workable Wi-Fi signal to the rest of the house. It's a four bedroom house and I would like a minimum of 200 Mbps if possible upstairs for web browsing / video streaming etc.

Does this sounds like a better solution than the routers above? Where I would like some advice is in the Wi-Fi arena. Should I go for a mesh capable access point just in case it's needed? I don't really want to wire stuff up around the house. However, I was thinking of getting a wall mounted access point and mounting it up high in the same room as the gateway. I'm guessing a switch with PoE out will also be needed?

Any advice would be appreciated, as I've said in earlier posts, I am not a networking expert (although I do know some stuff) happy to learn more though and I don't mind tweaking etc.

Thanks.
 
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It's a decent router. However to have a single AP in the house, you're better off mounting it on the upstairs ceiling, ideally powered by a switch in the loft. If it's a new build you will have a soil stack somewhere which runs directly from downstairs toilet to the loft you can feed a cable in (not the pipe itself, but the plasterboard box).
 
As above or put a hole in the wall and run the cable up the outside of the house. Mine are all hidden behind gutter down pipes so you can’t see them.

In any case all ubiquity access points mesh, ideally you want a 4x4 access points if you are meshing because meshing halves their throughout.

They are also powered by POE, you’ll need a POE switch or an injector to do the job.
 
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All UniFi APs are ‘mesh’ capable, but I along with many others will recommend a hard wired AP for maximum bandwidth capacity.
 
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