Yeah Eero gets usually decent reviews but I have not used it myself. I know a few with google mesh and to be honest they had more issues than they should and when they talked to me it personally sounded terrible.
I, myself prefer the prosumer sort of devices, currently I have a bit over £1400 worth of Unifi kit and its decent enough for the price. Unifi is good but it has its own issues. If you just get the AP’s (which I presume is what you would) you would need to hard wire as they dont have dedicated back haul for mesh. It does mesh but its not trying to be a pure mesh system, unifi do their amplify alien range for that and they may be an option over the Eeros but I have not looked at reviews of the newest version.
I went to unifi from running Ruckus which was the best wifi ap I have used (for its time, its old now) but you really really needed to know how to tune the wifi and the terminology to enjoy all the benefits.
If you went unifi you would need to ideally get a Pi and run the controller software on it to manage things if your using multiple ap’s which would add to the cost, you can get their cloud key (ensure its 2nd gen) to do it but its overkill unless you are going to use their cameras. They do have a UDR and UDM (non pro) that are all in one with the controllers and they would actually do as a starting point given the non FTTP speeds of Starlink but the stock is the biggest issue. There is EU stock of the UDR fairly often lately but it goes very very fast.
The UDM Pro/SE would probably be overkill given your speeds until you were full FTTP.
The Omada stuff is supposed to be decent enough especially for the price but their AP’s are HUGE in physical size but I would definitely at least get it with Wifi 6 at a min and they do offer a nice admin system which is kind of a rip off of the old unifi interface.
6E is nice but few devices have it yet but it does mean you will get the benefits when you do get 6E stuff and for mesh rather than hard linked 6E can be very useful, for end devices you can get full 1GB speeds but the 6E AP’s (Unifi has only one model) can be expensive and you dont have the net speed to get full advantage unless its for mesh/backhaul which you may not need given the hard wire.
Yeah old AC is okay for most on FTTC speeds, anything higher though it can have issues and IoT can really crap out wifi speeds with the older devices.
So basically figure out how many AP’s you would want and what your ideal realistic budget is and what your top line budget is and we can work from there. Also if you are keen for the technical side or only want minimal control but simpler roll out. At least you plan to hard wire and that is a big plus and POE can/would power them.
Given you wont have 1GB sort of speeds it does make it simpler but if you plan to use a lot of devices or transfer internally such as a local plex server etc wifi can make a huge difference.
If I was wanting a simple solution I would probably be tending toward Eeros because its more capable than google wifi and you can get decent deals on prime day etc. This is before we get to the whole google killing older devices just because issue.
@N26throwaway Oh on a note the UDM SE does still have PPPoE speed issues now I have FTTP 900mb, my old Edgerouter with hardware pppoe gets full speed but everything off (IDS etc) the SE is lesser sadly.