home office EAP620 HD or AX50?
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Looking for an WIFI 6 WAP for the first floor (1600 sq. ft) and was wondering if an Archer AX50 in AP mode be similar to a EAP620 HD (with a 5 port switch for the desktop and printer.) I would probably run Omada in docker on my home server with the EAP620. I am by an airport so I am guessing that DFS 160Mhz channels will be quite useless. How do they compare with each other when using less than 20 clients with six being wifi 6 able. How do they compare with RSSI with their antennas?
Thanks in advance
Personally I have never used the AX50 but for my 2 cents worth, I would choose the EAP620 each time.
The EAP620 is a business grade device, where as the AX50 is a home/consumer grade. One would expect the EAP620 to be better supported (especially via a controller), more firmware updates and generally higher performing, granted its likely overkill for 20 devices.
I have the EAP245 which serves up to 30 devices at peak times, all controlled by an OC200 and the latest SDN. The first thing I noticed was despite my old VR600 router claiming the same speeds as the replacement EAP245, the throughput and performance of the EAP was vastly better. IPerf throughput went from ~350mbps to ~500 on a 2x2 (866mbps) laptop, when I added a 3x3 card this went over 700. More importantly the wife stopped complaining about the WiFi 
After messing with consumer grade (VR range and others) for years and recently switching to the Omada EAPs... the difference is night and day, I simply wouldn't go back