Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

1. ISP Router to modem mode (it's disabled, except for talking to the ISP)
   
2. ISP Router connected to EdgeMAX router
   
3. EdgeMAX is now your main router, it routes traffic to and from the ISP router and your local networks
   
4. Unifi UAP connects to the EdgeMAX router and provides your WiFi
   
   

At this point, you're all good, you have great WiFi everywhere.

Optional:

• ToughSwitch connects to the EdgeMAX to provide lots of gigabit ethernet
  
• Unifi UAP can connect to the ToughSwitch if you want WiFi devices and cabled devices to be on the same physical network (not required, but it can make some rare edge cases simpler to solve)
  
  

That's it.

The hardest bits are:

1. Enabling modem mode... check with your ISP
   
2. Configuring the EdgeMAX, which by default is dumb and requires you to connect a laptop and upgrade the firmware and run a wizard.
   
   

If this all scares you... stop here, retreat, buy whatever you feel most comfortable with. This setup is awesome powerful, super fast, will last years and give great ethernet and WiFi... but the setup isn't by Apple, isn't "just works", this is setting up a professional network at home because home equipment by default may be easy to set up but tends to be shit.