How to best setup a 12 unit apartment

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Hello all, i am new to ALTA Labs;

I am working on a 12 plex apartment complex - 3 separate buildings with 4 units each.
At the main building i will have a 5GB circuit come in via Fiber/SFP. I have purchased a ALTA LABS ROUTE10 and am waiting for delivery.

From the router i plan to configure port 1 LAN to go to a ALTA LABS S8-POE to serve BUILDING 1, port 2 LAN to go to another ALTA LABS S8-POE for building 2, and port 3 LAN to go to another ALTA LABS S8-POE for building 3.

I was planning to put one ALTA LABS AP6W in each unit which is connected directly to the S8-POE serving that building. (total 12 access points, 3 switches, 1 router)

I need some feedback on interference if we might have any issue with 4 access points in the same building. The units are only 700 sq ft but they will have separation between walls and 2 units will be upstairs while 2 will be downstairs.

Does anyone see any issue with this? I want to isolate all traffic to whatever is connected to each access point

Are we able to do any kind of dynamic bandwidth allocation so not 1 user can use up all the speed? Ideally if the network is empty one user can have as much as they want, but as the network fills up each user gets throttled more and more.

I have never configured VLAN, is this a case for this or the AP can isolate traffic itself?

Thanks for all the advice, looking forward to testing out the new ALTA hardware which should come in the next few days!

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What is the distance from building one to building three? Data closet to data closet?

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Roughly 125ft from closer to closet

I have conduit in the ground and was planning on running a direct burial cat6 between the router in building 1 and the switch in 3

From there I will connect the 4 APs that support #3

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Besides for wifi, are there any plans for wired drops per unit?

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I was considering running a cat6 from the access point back to a living room where a potential TV or gaming box might go, but i am not 100% and that is optional if it complicates the network. I think the access point has a port that can handle this correct?

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This is all contingent on the project budget. Personally I wouldn’t advise to do it that way from both an operational and aesthetics perspective.

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Makes more sense to run fiber between buildings vs copper. You may want to rethink hardware (switches) for device connectivity.

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