Hello guys,

the wifi at my parents house sucks and I’m tired of:
Mum: “Son why is the wifi not working?”
Me: “What AP are you connected to?”
Mum: *confused*
so I want to upgrade it, but I’m not sure what to buy yet.

Situation:

• 2 Story house(brick walls) roughly rectangle shaped with basement and large Garden
• rougly 170 m^2 Living Area and 800 m^2 Garden
• ISP Router in top story with wires going to: 2* same floor, ground floor and basement
• we have two old TP-Link Routers/Aps which are 100Mbit/s and don’t have firmware for an AP Mode (I hate these fuckers)
• bad wifi coverage in kitchen, living room and literally no wifi outside

could do / need:

• I need LAN for PCs, Printers etc at all the named positions too (can’t use the one connection for an AP only)
• Wifi should be broadcasted as one SSID
• I could probably host a controller on TrueNas Scale or on a Ubuntu VM if needed
• would be cool if I could redirect dns requets to my pihole (but thats pretty standard right?)
• obviously 1 Gbit/s Hardware
• as cheap as possible but as expensive as needed

would appreciate any help