Not to be that guy, but...
If you want multiple SSIDs, roaming, daily neighbor scanning and auto channel selection, etc, but don't like to spend hours tinkering with your equipment beyond the physical setup, then Ubiquiti UniFi equipment is great.
I stopped recommending UniFi around 2020 (several of their best engineers had left, and they made some dumb choices), but IMO they're back to being a decent choice. And I appreciate that they're become a one-stop solution for all home/SOHO as well as mid size enterprise IT needs.
Ubiquity would have added another zero (at least) to the price here and bring cloud features I very determinedly did not want to have in the first place (check the original post at https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/09/14/1630).
This wasn't hours of tweaking. Well, over almost a year, maybe two hours, but no more than that.
Unifi doesn't have any cloud requirements that I know of. But yes they are more expensive than the hardware you've got, at $100 per AP.
For my needs unifi was worth it to not have to deal with OpenWRT again, or worse, stock firmware on consumer APs.
Yep exactly. This stuff quickly falls into “choose your battles” for me, and I’d rather just offload the issue
As long as you're happy with having your home wi-fi potentially controlled by the cloud...