Hi all

I recently bought a house and will be moving into it in a few weeks, so I am starting to look at my new internet setup.

I have been boarding with different people over the past few years, so I do not currently have an internet connection of my own. Also, the networking equipment I own has been getting rather long in the tooth, so I'm going to have a fresh start with new equipment.

I will be getting 1gbit UFB, most likely with Spark as I've generally had pretty solid experiences with them (once setup correctly anyway!).

The new house is a relatively small 1960's three bedroom home, so I'm thinking one Wifi router or access point will be all I need to cover the whole house as far as WiFi goes. Depending on what I find when I move in, I'm going to try and run some ethernet cable to a couple of places as well.

I need to buy a router and perhaps an access point. The RSP provided routers are fine(tm), but over the years I have found them to struggle under lots of connections etc. Also, I want something that offers more configuration options!

I've long been interested in the idea of getting some Mikrotik gear. Is that still a good option?

Alternatively, I see gowifi has some Grandstream GWN700x series routers with prices that seem almost too good to be true, are they any good?

If I decide to go Mikrotik, I would probably look at either the hEX (maybe too underpowered these days?), or the hAP AX2/3.

I'm looking forward to be able to play with home networking again. It's something you can't really do when living in other peoples homes!

All advice welcome.