Home wifi upgrade. Need suggestions

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.

I also work from home, and I moved into a 4000 sqft home last May. That is when I went the “all Alta” route with the exception of the router, since Route10 wasn’t out yet. My advice on the APs is that less is more, especially with the AP6 Pro. I can almost cover my entire house with a single AP6 Pro. It’s all about placement. I mounted mine on the 2nd floor ceiling, centrally located. You may even consider doing one on each side of the house, on the highest level or even in the attic. I think 4 will be way overkill. My last piece of advice is that mesh should always be a last resort. If you can wire each AP, you will have a much better overall experience, although I will say Alta’s meshing works very well.

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Thanks for your response.

I have UniFi cloud gateway max. It is stable and gives me multi wan failover ability so I will keep it for now
I currently use eero 6e hardwired.
I had already purchased UniFi U) mesh but I did not enable them as I feared that eero had better range.

After reading about Alta products for a few days I feel optimistic that I can replace my access points.
I already placed an order for Alta starter pack that comes with 8 port switch and 2 AP6 pros. I also bought a Poe+ injector.

I want to avoid eero and Alta APs interfering with each other. I also have nearly 100 devices on my network.

Ideally I want to enable Alta AP Pros with same SSID as eeros and turn off the eeros.

I may start with placing eero in my family room where the current eero is placed. It will be hard wired. On the second floor will just place eero on table top for now. If it works well enough I will remove the eero POE from the ceiling and move the second floor AP pro6 to the ceiling. If I have any range issues I will add another AP Pro 6 hardwired in the basement.

This will be entirely dependent on your client devices. They may or may not reconnect without intervention. Safer, smarter client devices will refuse to connect because the AP will have changed and that could indicate a network hijack.

Your best option is to disable the Eero units entirely and replace them all wholesale. Our access points, by default, will make an effort to find open spectrum to utilize. That works fine, but it can’t solve for total overlap from third party AP.

Thanks for your response.

Currently I have 4 eero 6e access points.

Home is 5600 sq feet.
Basement is 2000 sq ft
Main level 2000 sq ft
Second floor 1600 sq ft

Should I start with 3 AP 6 pros?

I have not compared the eero specs with AP 6 Pro specs but I expect the range of AP 6 pro to be better.

Cost is not a concern. Reliable and fast WiFi is the goal.