Ask HN: What is your home WiFi setup like?

I have three Ubiquti access points covering a 2500 sq ft home. The results are great but still depend on careful placement of the access points. The wall between the kitchen and the woodshed has a metal layer on the insulation so I have an access point in the wood shed that is served by a TP-Link powerline ethernet and a spare ethernet plug to plug my laptop into when I work out there in the summer. I will probably have to take it in in the winter when it gets below feeezing.

Two DSL lines come into the house, are connected to a load balancing router, then there is gigabit ethernet to a Ubiquti managed switch which can deliver power to the access points, although I currently use power injectors for all of them because that's what is convenient.

I have a small Linux tower that runs as a server that runs the Ubiquti management software and many other services.

I use Ethernet as much as I can but I haven't taken it as far as I could. I've got the tools to crimp the ends onto Ethernet cables and 1000 feet of solid core Cat 6 wire and when I master the tools I will cut custom cable runs to serve more access points straight out of the hub, get the secondary A/V room wired, etc. Ubiquti makes outdoor access points that would do fine in the shed or outside the house.

One of my DSL modems has its WiFi turned on and that is one of three devices plugged into the UPS which ensures that the backup connection and the landline phone system work through power outages of up to two days.

I also have a SmartThings Hub and a Phillips Hue hub fighting for 2.4 GHz spectrum.

Here's a thing: In Germany, Fritzbox Routers are quite popular (made by http://avm.de). They have excellent software (with a feature set similar to OpenWRT, but more clean and concise). They support guest Wi-fi's out of the box and many people I know use them.