Ditch the M4 and M5s, deprecating tech of Wifi5.

for your speed of 800mbps, you should be considering wifi6 routers.

For so many devices that you are using at home ,i would suggest to use either TpLink or Asus, their firmware has options to manually adjust connection preference of 2.4/5Ghz and signal source selection for the mesh .

For tp link,I can recommend you to take Deco X50 and above.


Asus wise , no idea. but as long WiFi 6 should be fine.

As for the fiberhome Sr1041y which is AX1800, i would suggest to keep it and remain it as a satellite node and if possible hard wire it, so that whatever device at home connects to it, you will still be able to see from your deco app, if you are using Decos, for Asus am not sure if the UI will be able to do so, but for sure can mesh.

Here's an example of my app showing me what devices is connected to my FiberHome SR1041F node when I backhaul it with ethernet.


But if I use wireless backhaul, I can only see the fiberhome node, but not the devices.

So do consider also using ethernet cable as your option to wire backhaul to ground floor.

with a budget of 1k and selling off the m5s m4s, it shouldn't be a problem for you.

or you can instead choose to sell off the fiberhome and remain the m5 and m4, but you have mixed of wifi5 and 6 at home.

maybe remain the m5 or m4 at places that you do not need high speed at all times, just enough for basic functions like IoT.

triband, i dont really recommend unless you want to go full wireless backhaul, but your budget of 1k wouldn't be sufficient as you may need at least 3 or 4 nodes for it work.