Apart from the main router you need to set them all up as access points. Such a string of routers all doing NAT and firewalling is the cause of your issue. You should also all use the same WiFi ssid name and password. This will allow your devices to automatically roam between them and you will have one flat network. Also make sure there are no Ethernet cable issues anywhere in this crazy linkage. This could also cause drops in speed or complete internet drops so make sure each link is connecting at gigabit speeds (the routers’ setup pages should tell you their link speeds). Much better would be to use actual access points and switches and a vlan aware router so you can do guest networks that are segregated but that takes a bit more advanced networking knowledge.

This really depends mostly on the capabilities of your devices. Just getting a better wifi access point/router combo won’t help if your devices can’t do any of it. Most devices are 2x2 MIMO and only support 80MHz wide channels on the 5GHz band. If you have a wifi 6 client (assuming you have a wifi6 router), the max signaling rate is 1200 Mbps, which translates to about 800 Mbps accounting for overhead. You can almost double this if you have devices that are capable of 160 MHz bandwidth but that is very rare, or if you have 3x3 MIMO capable devices (just as rare). Wifi 5 devices won’t get much better than the already quoted 500 Mbps. If you have wifi6e devices (just as rare) and a wifi6e wifi access point/router combo, you can also break the 1 GHz barrier. Wifi above 1 Gbps is still an expensive proposition.

What you priced out will work just fine. These are very good and the controller allows you to not have to subscribe to the cloud service. Any POE+ switch should work with these access points but if you don’t actually need 24 ports I would just get the same brand version and centrally manage.

Firewalla gold plus is another option

Is your fiber on pppoe or IPOE? If the former many routers cannot sustain full bandwidth. Your Firewalla gold plus for example cannot sustain 2.5 gbps on pppoe connections

Absolutely correct but from the context of the OP’s post it seemed they were trying to get more bandwidth for when multiple clients need it at the same time. Exactly what LAG connections can help you with. Of course it is much better to just use higher speed links but LAG connections certainly still have their place when you just can’t simply upgrade the connection speed at a reasonable cost.

Ring like topology is anathema to Ethernet networking. If you really somehow create a ring in your network it will cause problems. Most commonly your switches will detect a ring through spanning tree protocol (STP) and shut a link in the ring down. You always want to have a star topology in Ethernet networks. If you want more bandwidth or redundancy in critical links, use LAG connections.

Unfortunately this is typical for consumer router/wifi access point combos. They need to be restarted regularly. Mostly because they are underpowered for what they are supposed to do. If you want to get around that you need slightly more beefy hardware like a firewalla gold (highly recommended if you don’t want to tinker too much), a pfsense firewall device, ubiquiti edgerouter, TP-Link ER605, and many others. These do NOT integrate a wifi access point which in fact is the sign of a good router but you will need separate access points because of it. In many cases if you use one of these as a router, you can just switch your old router to access point mode and it will operate very stably suddenly.

I use a firewalla gold at home and it is rock solid. I use this instead of one of the others I mentioned because my spouse can control essential functions (shutting off internet for the kids when needed for example) from her phone which is not trivial on any of the other solutions and she doesn’t complain it is too hard to use. It has uptime measured in years instead of weeks.