Sounds like that’s a bad experience resulted from what could’ve been avoided through proper backup management practices. Hardware failures are inevitable, and it is always prudent to manage backups appropriately. I’ll be the first to admit I’m not backing up my controller data properly, but at least mine is on a VM powered by a RAID array that I take snapshot semi regularly. Should the VM corrupt itself somehow, and I cannot get my backups deployed, I’d probably be hosed and have to restart from scratch, but that’d be on me for not testing my DRP.
For most SMEs, paying consumer grade equipment is out of the question, and paying for true enterprise grade stacks Meraki / Aruba might be out of the question due to budget constraints. Ubiquiti strikes a happy median for them, and residential users that want to opt for a bit more.
You can achieve higher than 1Gbit/s throughput if your wireless devices are connected to the same AP.
I.e. you can transfer photos between your phone and laptop wirelessly if both devices are on MCS index 11 1024 QAM using 2 spatial streams in ideal environment…. Not likely, but it could happen.