Wireless might be the future but it will never be as good as fiber. Wifi in your home network that you build out will never be as good as a wired network. I've done corporate networks since 1991, and in my own mesh network, I use a wired connection between the routers except for 1 and I use the newer wifi 6e backhaul to 1 of the mesh routers.
To me, a fast network from an ISP is 1Gb or higher. This way I get no data caps, low latency, and faster upload and download speeds.
When people complain about network speeds, have you actually tested the speeds connected straight from the router or are you complaining about your wifi speeds within your house? Most people complain about their wifi speeds and the ISP doesn't care or know how to configure your internal network (wifi and wired) and this is the cause for 99% of people that complain about their network speed.
1/2 the people who get internet service from any of the providers use the router and its default settings in the default location. The other 49% get the Quack Squad or some neighbor to come put in a router without knowing the 1st thing about configuring a fast reliable internal network.
Try this: hook up a laptop directly to the routers ethernet port (don't use the port that is a different color or label) and run a speed test using ookla's speediest.net and I bet you will always get 85% of the speed you are paying for. Then disconnect the laptop and go to all the different parts of your house and try your wifi speeds using the same ookla speed test. You will get much slower and you probably won't get a connection in certain parts of your house.
I use multiple mesh network routers with all but 1 connected by cable and to 1 using the WIFI 6e backhaul. I can go anywhere in my house, on the back lanai, outside patio, in my garage, and get over 800Mb wifi speeds. Since my whole house is automated (grill, garage, lights, door locks, refrigerator, stove, on and on), I need a good connection to each device, no matter if they use the 2.4ghz or 5ghz network connection.
Get somebody who knows how to build a network (that's not the geek squad and none of the ISP's) to build yourself an internal network that will be faster than the internet speed you purchase.
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