You seem unable to read the question/read the room. OP has a £100 budget. Deco X55 got them halfway to a mesh system. Of course my answer is wrong if the right answer is:
P.S. you said you don't know consumer gear that well - X55 has ethernet backhaul and will move OP one step closer to your utopia.
For a moment, it almost felt like you'd forgotten which one of us gave poor quality advice, got upset when it was pointed out, tried to argue about it, failed miserably, then when op came back as predicted and said it didn't work, didn't own it, but tried to double down and go over budget by 50%, then accused the person who gave decent advice with obvious justification of not being able to read the room and being unfamiliar with consumer grade hardware.
I mean, can you actually imagine being
that person
@Drake5 i'm sorry you were given poor advice, sometimes people who should know better make the mistake of telling you what worked for them in the situation they have, rather than trying to understand what will give you the best outcome in yours. If you can return the AX55, that would allow you to get a pair of Deco X20's (£109.99) or X50's (£139.99), unfortunately they were on offer recently and aren't quite as cheap today. The other alternative is you exceed your budget by 50% as suggested by the person who got you into this mess. Good luck with whatever option you choose, but both should provide very similar end results, other than to your bank balance.
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