New Modem and Router

[Wrathe]

Nothing CPU-dependent. I'm talking about antenna usage. Remember, decoupled infrastructure--access points aren't doing any routing.

The long-range access point I previously recommended to cover a larger house, plus outdoor space, has fewer antennae than Ubiquiti's other products. If someone is concerned with wifi congestion, their models with more antennae would be my recommendation instead of the one that is optimized for range.

Gotcha, ya if you have a heavy Wi-Fi load, I know going Tri-Band is great. The Netgear I had was really bottlenecked at the CPU mark, it just couldn't keep up w/ the amount of traffic going through; even w/ the advanced features turned off.

ASUS (just to stay consistent w/ what I have) pushes AIMesh if you need AP's, and yes, I would totally back those via Hardwire if at all possible. Echoing a degraded signal just gives you a really reliable degraded signal, lol. With that said, my old Airport Extremes work fine for extending the ASUS still as well. I actually kept a few around just for remote speakers.

Thanks for filling that in, I've never really looked at Ubiquiti, I might check them out when it's time to upgrade my central switch. I have a Netgear that's been running forever in my basement ceiling (had it wired for LAN parties). LOL, it's a rack mounted switch we mounted in between some joists.