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  • Ubiquiti is probably your best bet for ‘cheap’ wifi7. As far as mix and match, the short answer is it’s bad.

    The long answer is that for anywhere the cells overlap you’re going to have degraded performance at or near wifi5 speeds, which really means wifi4 speeds on 2.4ghz. You’re right that this is mitigated by careful channel planning but once you’re past 4 APs within earshot of each other you’ll run out of 40mhz channels unless you’re in a place where the dfs bands aren’t problematic.

    If you are looking for performance improvements, ditching the wifi 5 in favor of wifi6 will be as big or bigger of a jump than 6 to 7 off the 6ghz band.









  • The other recommendations are good, but please please double check your tstat wiring and/or HVAC system to ensure they are compatible. One of the few stats that work with my system without shenanigans is the Honeywell T10 Pro (which also worked out of the box with HA). This required me to rewire the control run to use it, and is not something I would recommend for people who aren’t prepared to cook the control board on their furnace if they do an oopsie or regularly read electrical diagrams.