I was using an expensive Asus router for a year but it couldn't cover my house due to the walls I believe. The house is only 1,074 sqft, I picked up Eero three pack and it does cover the entire house but for $500 it seems a bit expensive.

I was looking at the maybe using 1 Hap AC as a router and 3 Hap AC Lite in each room?

Meshes cut you bandwidth in half with each hop. PowerLAN with some MikroTiks as access point may be a better solution.

I'd build a DAS with the AC lite's using a router of ones choosing for the head. RF Elements makes a nice little ceiling enclosure to put the hap inside of (run the cat5 in the attic and limit the wall penetrations for network drops if applicable). Use something like a Wifi-Texas PoE injector Netonix WISP Switch for PoE if not interested in a 750P for a router.


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Gotta love that marketing... I am getting asked about mesh all the time now. I keep explaining the 1/2 throughput... all they hear???
"4 bars everywhere"

I'd build a DAS with the AC lite's using a router of ones choosing for the head. RF Elements makes a nice little ceiling enclosure to put the hap inside of (run the cat5 in the attic and limit the wall penetrations for network drops if applicable). Use something like a Wifi-Texas PoE injector Netonix WISP Switch for PoE if not interested in a 750P for a router.


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I was looking at the maybe using 1 Hap AC as a router and 3 Hap AC Lite in each room?

It can work. And You can get reasonable (for repeater) performance if wireless link between mesh nodes (Hap AC) is perfect.
But 2 dBi antenna in hAP ac not look good for perfect long range (relative) links.

Try with 2 hAP ac for start. It cheap enough.
You always can add PowerLine or other wired link.

Meshes cut you bandwidth in half with each hop. PowerLAN with some MikroTiks as access point may be a better solution.

Not two times per each hop (8 times for 3 hops). For Single band mesh, in times of number of hops+1 (4 times slower for 3 hops).
Or for Dual band mesh in times of number of hops (3 times for 3 hops).

But some wired solution preferable.