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Range Extender Help
Hey All, Looking for suggestions to extend the range of my Orbi RBR40 and 2 RBW30 Satellites. I currently have a detached workshop from my home that is about 100 ft away from where my RBR40 is locat...
What material is the workshop walls made of? As well as the home walls?
Most devices work decently within a a standard wood/sheetrock home because wood sheetrock doesn't block a ton of signals. but then you try to get external to the home and you have things like foil lined insulation and different types of siding that block signals quite well.
One of the biggest blockers of wifi is metal siding, tin, brick, concrete. If you've got those, or a lot of wifi interference, your best best is to run a underground ethernet wire, potentially powerline/moca adapter, or even a point to point system to get coverage out there.