Question Building WLAN mesh in a single family home

[bspire]

Hello,
I want to add WLAN to my recently built single family house.
It has 3 floors, so I have the following plan:
Internet WLAN router on floor 1, Wireless AccessPoint on floor 2 and Wireless AccessPoint on floor 3.
Each device has its own wired connection to the home network.
Can I build a WLAN mesh between all those 3 devices (which means building one single wireless network, direct communication between those devices, centralized management, etc.)?
Which manufacturer does provide such WLAN mesh productes (Netgear? Ubiquiti? ...)
Or is it all nonsense and I don't need any WLAN mesh?
Any recommendations or suggestions are welcome? 😉

Stefan

 

[bill001g]

It is all nonsense when you are talking ethernet connected AP. Mesh is pretty much just another name for wifi repeater.

You would actually have to work very hard to get multiple networks or vlans for your different floors. Ubiquiti can do that if you really want.

All machines will be able to talk by default just check that you have no turned on wireless isolation.

The devices will also roam between the AP if you use the same SSID. You want as little signal overlap as possible so you turn down the power of some of the AP. You want just enough so it works well in the coverage area but does not have too much in other areas.

All the roaming is controlled by the end devices. No matter how much the mesh marketing guys want to pretend otherwise it is the end device not the network that is in control.

You should be able to just use inexpensive routers as AP. You really only need actual AP if you want something like power over ethernet or maybe central management if you have a real lot of AP.