re: Wifi Extender or Access Point to alleviate bad Wifi connection in home?

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Get APs designed to work together: LINK

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You pimp these a lot, and I'm going to be lazy and ask you instead of looking it up.

PoE = a positive in almost any circumstance where you want to somewhat conceal a handful of APs around a house.

Other than that, what's the advantage? Do they have good management software? Can you break down traffic by AP and the like on it? What advantage would someone like me (capable of taking a switch with X number of ports and extending the network across X APs, each with a different firmware with really very little headache at all) get from these? I get that they're far cheaper than any competitor, but they really seem to compete in the enterprise world where uniformity is important. In a home network, what makes them any better/worse than a handful of cheap (for this argument's sake, let's say a Linksys e1200, which is about $36 (half the cost of the cheapest Ubiquiti one I see while being similar- n300 single band))?

I'm not trying to bash/confront. I'm actually quite interested (pretty soon going to be setting up a nice in home network with multiple APs) as to what the "designed to work together" (which I assume is a decent central management console) offers? And does it require a physical Ubiquiti router/centralized appliance to take advantage of?

ETA: it's advantage over something like a Cisco Aironet in an enterprise environment is clear. I'm just slightly skeptical of its cost:benefit in a home environment on one, single subnet