I live in a 200 sq ft studio and I've had issues with interference with 2.4 GHz Ubiquity equipment and various other routers (probably due to having too many ne

I live in a 200 sq ft studio and I've had issues with interference with 2.4 GHz Ubiquity equipment and various other routers (probably due to having too many neighbors within range) -- switching to a $200 Apple Airport Extreme with "more antennas" made most of my problems go away. However, seeing better performance 5 GHz 802.11 n/ac requires you to have both a good router and a good laptop -- my experience is that unless your users/family blindly uses Macbooks, they won't see any improvement from a $200 router because their 2-3 year old $500 Windows laptop only has a 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz-only 1x1.