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Warren57
Feb 13, 2026Aspirant
Metal building wifi
Another remote metal building question. i live on an acreage. Added a wavlink extender to my network at the house. Works good everywhere across the acreage, good signal, except wifi signal inside me...
Warren57
Feb 17, 2026Aspirant
It is currently set up with 2.4G and 5G seperately so test both of them?
plemans
Feb 17, 2026Guru - Experienced User
2.4ghz will be much slower but it broadcasts futher. 5ghz will be faster if its in range. I'd test them both just for realistic expectations. But you can set the extender to just use the 5ghz for backhaul if you'd like (using fastlane). It doesn't give you a failover if you select only use 5ghz for bakchaul