I bought an R610 AP on eBay a few months back, flashed it with the Ruckus firmware (legally available to all from their site), and it does exactly what you want. On-prem only, no cloud, one of the APs will act as a controller/manager for the others, and they can all communicate via wired or meshing off of each other. One of them can even be a NAT thing if you want.
I think I paid around $160 because someone had a bunch of off-lease ones. But if you look up anything that supports the Unleashed firmware you'll be good. 802.1ax is the hotness right now, so the slightly older (but still work great) ones are a LOT cheaper.
I replaced a Ubiquiti setup with a Ruckus R610 and small fanless running OPNsense (Protectli) with a basic switch and POE injector and it's excellent. Sure, it's not single pane of glass for it all, but the AP is rock solid and OPNsense is a solid known quantity. I've got no regrets.
Same here, I ditched my Ubiquiti and went with Ruckus and I could not be happier. I'm just so sorry that I ever bought into Ubiquiti's marketing when I purchased their AP. The Ruckus performs so much better and the mgmt software is light years better than Ubiquiti. I also run a Protectli but on OpenBSD (from pfsense originally).
I bought an R610 AP on eBay a few months back, flashed it with the Ruckus firmware (legally available to all from their site), and it does exactly what you want. On-prem only, no cloud, one of the APs will act as a controller/manager for the others, and they can all communicate via wired or meshing off of each other. One of them can even be a NAT thing if you want.
I think I paid around $160 because someone had a bunch of off-lease ones. But if you look up anything that supports the Unleashed firmware you'll be good. 802.1ax is the hotness right now, so the slightly older (but still work great) ones are a LOT cheaper.
I replaced a Ubiquiti setup with a Ruckus R610 and small fanless running OPNsense (Protectli) with a basic switch and POE injector and it's excellent. Sure, it's not single pane of glass for it all, but the AP is rock solid and OPNsense is a solid known quantity. I've got no regrets.