I don't have a ton of faith in tplink to continue to support omada over the long term. They've also been somewhat slow to fix security problems in the past. For the same price as the omada ap you can get unifi u6 lites.
You can still run your own controller and i can vouch thaf a couple of them can cover an entire moderately sized house. I run 2 at home with pfsense on an ewaste tier dell optiplex and have for years without trouble.
I've never messed with opnsense but I assume it works just as well.
Also what type of connection are you getting from your ISP? If its a fiber connection you may be able to buy an SFP network card and replace the modem altogether.
Ah I was hoping to stay away from ubiquiti but it seems more and more that I should go with them for long term support. I’m hoping to purchase things that will be decent for the next 5-10 years, so things like wifi 6e and 4x4 mu-memo is what steered me away from them in the first place because the cost of entry is really high.
My ISP provides gigabit fiber, so I’ll look into maybe getting an SFP network card.
I googled open source router, and open sense was the first thing that came up, but I probably be going with pfsense anyways.
But to be fair, even 2 ASUS WiFi 6E on their zenwifi like for example are like >300€. A Cloud gateway ultra + U7 pro + PoE injector is around that too. For me the router/AP entrance is in a place that barely gives a signal so it makes so sense to have an access point there.
So I would get more or less the same signal with 1 access point + a wired router than 2 access points.
My issues hasn’t really been coverage with my Google wifi setup, it’s more that they can’t handle many wifi clients talking at the same time. That and I can’t set settings I would like, example being which channel they’re on so they don’t conflict with things like my zigbee network.
So I think ubiquiti might just be the way to go. I think I might just get a cloud key and a couple AP’s and call it a day.