Since our apartment has a weird u-shaped topology I have unmanaged gigabit switches and four Airport Extremes for Wi-Fi (which I got off eBay for standardization, since they’re not being built anymore). Fiber comes into the house and the ISP router gives me 4x1Gb ports where I plug in my “spoke”switches.

2 IPTV set top boxes, a handful of Macs, too many Raspberry Pi’s and ARM dev boards, a NAS, my two Windows work machines, everything hanging off Gigabit or 802.11n.

Zero Wi-Fi meshing, zero remote management, zero hassles.

In fact, I’m starting to worry what I’ll replace this with, since I can’t really find Wi-Fi gear that doesn’t try to provide “added value” by forcing me to use some kind of cloud service.