Unless you've got a huge house you don't actually need to drop two thousand dollars on networking gear. I'm covering a three bedroom house using one of Ubiquiti

Unless you've got a huge house you don't actually need to drop two thousand dollars on networking gear. I'm covering a three bedroom house using one of Ubiquiti's cheapest AC capable access points and the EdgeRouter-X, the whole lot cost me about £120 which is in the ballpark of a consumer router with wireless, yet massively more capable and reliable. Since installing it I've been able to just stop thinking about my home network. It just takes whatever we throw at it, and the wifi is plenty fast enough to stream HD video to the TV.