Wed Jun 02, 2021 12:20 am
Always optimistic :-) , but this was what I did read in OP's request ... "in order to connect devices to hAP's ethernet ports" . OP might think something else, but the text was "wifi uplink, ethernet downlink". So I only commented based on that information. Using "station" here is only one of the possibilities. (Troublesome "station pseudo bridge" for avoiding the NAT and being accessible from the rest of the LAN , is a known slippery slope (eg problems with DHCP requests)).
hAP Lite is a €20 device with only 2.4GHz WLAN and 100 Mbps interfaces. 2.4GHz is indeed the bottleneck as we all know, but with 2S connection and 144Mbps interface rate it will perform well for a 50/60 Mbps ISP connection. Streaming video's starts at 5Mbps. (I only have 50 Mbps from my ISP, and they are my bottleneck, even if I go through the hAP-Lite, dual NAT)