Hi @supervillain,

For a little more money you can get two eap610s (one top center, other center basement ceiling) instead of the eap670.  I think this will provide a better and more uniform signal.  If you want to try the 670 and decide to swap for the 610s, I believe they use the same mounting plate, so no extra work.

  @D-C Thanks!

The 610s only have a gigabit port afaik?  I am looking to future proof as much as I can on this.  Below is the basic layout.  Red dots are cat5e drops.  Blue dot in basement is ISP hookup point and where all the cat5e terminates.

  @supervillain 

I'm no expert here, just used buil-in Controller's map to simulate the signal coverage for your plans.

Looks like 610 and 670 provide similar coverage but 670 looks better in terms of equipped network port (2.5 instead of 1Gbps).

In the simulation I've used bricked wall since there was no drywalls... In theory drywall's reduces signal by 3dB, brick wall by 4dB.

The scale for signal here is from -40dB [red] to -60dB [green]

Here's an effect for 1AP [670] mounted centrally:

And here's for two:

Both simulations are for 5GHz network. EAP610 gives similar results.

The walls are reducing the signal pretty strong, since there's a lot of those for signal to cross.

OFC the simulation is homemade, the drywalls are reducing the signal less than (used here) bricks, as well as I have skipped doors, so made is as the alls are all the way...

But if you want to use the AP on 2nd floor only and use that WiFi network on Ground Floor as well, I would go with 2 devices myself.

If you would like to install separate device for ground floor, then I believe just one device there would be enough since there is not so many walls:

As I said tho, I'm no expert as well as I've used TP-Link's tools for this simulation so it may not be accurate...

Cheers :)

@supervillain,

Yes the 610s are 1GB, but you'd have two.  I think the cost difference was less than 30-US more for two 610s (on sale) or two 613s (same as 610 w/o poe injector).  Overall, the 670 and 610 support almost all of the same features and have similiar specs.  Comparing one 670 to two 610s, I'd take the two 610s with the better coverage (2nd floor and basement).  I'm not sure you'd ever get the theoretical max speeds and it seems you're planning to hard wire your higher bandwidth clients anyway.