Hold on, buddy. > You can barely use a single 5Ghz router to serve a 70m^2 home at acceptable performance. Of course you can't. Compared to 2.4GHz, 5GHz barel

Hold on, buddy. > You can barely use a single 5Ghz router to serve a 70m^2 home at acceptable performance. Of course you can't. Compared to 2.4GHz, 5GHz barely passes through walls, and it is actually a good thing. My rule of thumb for 5GHz is to have access point every other room and to lower transmit power so that they don't in the way of each other. In effect, there are 3 APs in my 160m^2, two storey flat. I get easily minimum 400-500MBit/s on AC with multiple users in any spot in the flat but I don't use typical consumer hardware. To do 5GHz properly in a large home you need something that will be able to properly roam users while they are moving about. Where I live I see about 250-260 2.4GHz access points at any point in time and 2.4GHz is almost useless. I only see 3 5GHz APs. The fact that 5GHz is so attenuated by the walls makes it usable in high density environment. I have also found that one shiny laptop that was more pricey than others had trouble with lower speeds and constant disconnets. LOWERING transmit power actually helped, because it caused it to be kicked earlier from AP and switch to another, closer one. So, to underline, you need to know technology you are using. WiFi requires a little bit of knowledge because you want to realize a miracle of passing huge amount of data at high speeds through walls. I kinda wonder why everybody complains they can pass signal only through single wall.