Hi, I’d be grateful for some advice regarding home broadband set up.

Our current set up is VDSL, a standard Spark HG659b router sat next to the phone in the open plan kitchen and a plug in Netgear range extender to reach the bottom 2 bedrooms in an approx. 220m2 4 bed house. It works ok for our current needs but it’s not great. We mostly use mobile devices and laptops for web browsing and streaming, one TV, there are 5 of us.

I am planning to install fibre this year and had a quote from a local AV company with a view to integrating the network with future home theatre. Their recommendation was a Ubiquiti edge router 4 and Unifi 8 port switch in the garage (easiest pace to install the ONT relative to the position of the house to the road) running some cat 6 cables through the house to one Unifi AC pro upstairs and one lite downstairs, with ethernet ports wherever a television is or might be in the future.

I can save $300+ buying the same components from online retailers and I have a mate who is a very good and experienced electrician. Is this a setup that an electrician and an average (no IT training or experience) home user could get up and running?

Is the whole thing overkill for an average house anyway? Our need for speed and data will only increase over time and it would be good to take the opportunity to future proof the house to some extent, reading around the suggested components seem to be more small office level than average home but do appear to be well rated on these forums.

Thank you for your time and thoughts