We moved into a new home last year. It is 5600 sq ft. It is a two-story home with a finished basement.
I have about 100 devices on my network. Ring door bell, Ring camera with light, wifi locks, ipads, iphones, laptops etc. Many of my apple TV’s are wired but 2 of them are on wifi. I have schlage smart locks, rachio wifi controller, sonos speakers.
I have had eero pro 6 and eero pro 6e access points in my home.
Both I and my wife work from home. I have to be on VPN 100% of time and attend team meetings. The wifi performance is not great.
Here was my topology until last November 2024.
ATT Fiber->EeroPro6E(Office front)->managed switch->wired eero pro 6E in family room, wired eero pro 6e basement, wired eero POE mounted on the ceiling in the second floor.
I have an office in the back part of the home where I work. I was having problems being on VPN and Teams. I was connected but the performance was slow.
I mounted another eero Pro6e wired in that office but my laptop would connect with other access points and it did not help me.
My Tesla charger in the garage complained about wifi so I added eero 6 wireless in the garage.
The performance was not great. I opened a support case with eero and they told me that I had too many devices. So I shut down some of the devices.
I purchased my first unifi device. It is a cloud ultramax gateway. It allows me to have two internet providers ( ATT and xFinity). I am running Eero in bridge mode. The wifi performance is still uneven.
Current topology
ATT Fiber and Comcast Xfinity 1 GB connection to Unifi Cloud Gateway max->Eero 6E(Bridge)->managed switch-> 2 wired eero 6E, 1 wired eero POE and 1 wireless Eero 6
I haven’t replaced eero with unifi access points because based on what I read eero wifi performs better than unifi.
I just came to know about alta labs a few hours ago, I have been reading about it. I like what I have read so far.
Route 10 seems too new to me so I will not use it for now. I have no problem with unifi cloud gateway max so I plan to keep it.
I want to replace all of my eero 6e/6 Access Points with 4 Alta Lab Pro6 Access points. I want to use cloud controller.
I will place first Pro6 AP in the front of my home where I get the internet connections.
I need to find the location of my second Pro6 AP. It can go in the middle of my home in family room or the far back corner of my home where my office is.
On second floor eero POE is mounted in the ceiling. I am not sure if I can mount Alta Labs Pro 6 on the ceiling or I can just place it on a table.
In basement I can place pro 6 in the center of the basement.
Do you see any drawback with continuing to use Unifi cloud gateway max as my router and use 4 alta lab pro APs. all these AP’s will be hardwired with 1 GB network.
Will this give me reliable and high performing wifi?
I am in Atlanta. Where can I purchase them?
Let me know if you have any suggestions for me.