£160?!?!
If you need better coverage, why not just put a few old routers in AP mode and spread them around your house? Cost: free.

Distance and how much your walls attenuate the signal aren't the only factors you need to consider. You also have to consider number and type of devices, what people use them for, how they move around the house while using them, how well they switch between AP's, ability to wire the two AP's together, wether you can wire other devices (cable routing is usually challenging in residential properties) and number of devices competing for the same spectrum.

We live in a large town house, ~77sqm per floor and 3 floors. We have a central comms cupboard with CAT6 distributed around the house for multiroom AV, so theres no issue with adding more access points. The wifi spectrum is quite congested as I live very close to a large town centre. Some devices play fine with a secondary access point, others grind to a halt as they hold on to the first and don't switch. I haven't looked at it in detail, but I suspect either congestion or interference leads to the channel becoming congested rather then signal attenuation due to walls/distance and some devices don't handle such a scenario too well.

A mesh network is possibly a better answer then several access points in our scenario. And to be honest, amortised over several years of usage, given Wifi is one of the most used services in our home, £160 doesn't seem like much.

I have just ditched all my wired PoE APs (4 of them as we have granite walls in Cornwall which are impervious to WiFi) and replaced them with 6 of these, all meshing nicely. The main advantage is not having to switch between different SSIDs around the place as I move around with my devices - it used to be a real pain disconnecting and reconnecting to get a better signal. I value this product enormously, and I have been through a lot of different options in the past! This is product is much more than a wireless extender, a powerline or a standalone access point.

Good price and good value system. Very pleased with mine.

Can these be used with virgin media

Yes, these work really well with VIrgin. Got mine set up easily. 100MB throughout my large two bed flat. Very happy with this system. Highly recommended and have yet to have any dropouts after using the system for about 6 months now. Vastly superior to the buggy Superhub,

£160?!?!
If you need better coverage, why not just put a few old routers in AP mode and spread them around your house? Cost: free.

Playing devil's advocate, I'd question the need for these in most residential properties. We live in a 2000 sq/ft 260 year old house with 1-3 ft thick stone walls in most places. I have a ZyXel VMG8924 (internal antennae) gateway at one end of the house and an Archer C7 (3 x external antennae) at the other end of the house, on the ground level, and we don't have any Wi-Fi black spots.
I think part of the issue is the often mis-informed strive for 5GHz connectivity, when a decent 2.4GHz link will be more than enough bandwidth to transfer all the data most broadband connections can throughput, and offer less issues in the average home.
Instead of spending £170 on this, most would be better off spending £60 on a reasonable cable router and 8 port GbE switch, then hard-wiring any static IP enabled kit and use the router as a wireless AP along with your gateway (assuming that's also wireless), strategically placed in the property, for your mobile kit.

Paul

I've got a old terrace and this finally sorted out the loft room where even powerline couldn't probably due to the wiring job. It's plug and play to coin an old term which is what I needed.
Handy to have an Ethernet connection on each.

Excellent system, just make sure the firmware is up to date. App is a work in progress but due an update September if not before.

On mobile use Swifi to switch automatically without noticing.

I have just ditched all my wired PoE APs (4 of them as we have granite walls in Cornwall which are impervious to WiFi) and replaced them with 6 of these, all meshing nicely. The main advantage is not having to switch between different SSIDs around the place as I move around with my devices - it used to be a real pain disconnecting and reconnecting to get a better signal. I value this product enormously, and I have been through a lot of different options in the past! This is product is much more than a wireless extender, a powerline or a standalone access point.

But that is only your mobile phone, and it wont be switching seamlessly, you will still be disconnecting and reconnecting, you just do not visually see it.

You haven't taken into account interference. If you live in a high density residential area, for example terraced housing or flats there are so many wireless devices about that using 2.4ghz is a fools game. Every channel is completely full, and the way wifi wrks means this has a detrimental effect on reliable connections and speed. It is much better to focus on low range 5ghz points at strategic locations around the home. If everyone did this there would be no problem with interference. If however you live far enough away from others interference isn't a problem then you are correct in your suggestion, but the number of devices using these frequencies are only going up so I do not think this is a long term solution.

Unless you live in Buckingham Palace, there is no way that anybody needs to spend anywhere near £60, net alone £160, to get complete 'seamless' Wi-Fi coverage in their house.

Forgot to add we use Cisco AP's at work and they are terrible at handing over from one device to the other (and they are business grade).

15% discount and 4.2% with topcashback - think this might tempt me

12% cashback on Robert Dyas for Lloyds/Halifax customers too!

£161.49 minus 4.2% from TCB and minus 12% from Lloyds = £135.32

gone for it -

Yes but for mobiles it's a simple and cheap solution rather than mesh systems.