re: Best way of extending wifi to backyard?

It has more power yes due to the spec changes, but that frequency has more problems at penetration period, which the OP has said he is dealing with.

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just repeating what people i assume that are smarter than me said and expressing my real world experience.

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The only thing that everyone knowledgeable about wifi with real world experience would say is that there is no universal answer to anything.

Even the slightest change, whose origins aren’t always apparent, can have profound differences in range and strength. So you can’t make a definite recommendation to fix any problems.

Based on what the OP has to say, it sounds he is in a difficult signal situation. What works for you may not work for him. Even if the ROUTER can push the signal through the interference doesn’t mean the cell phone/tablet etc can in order to communicate back


OP:

Your best bet (not knowing your router’s ability to attach an external antenna) is to get on the other side of whatever is blocking the signal on the walls.

MoCA or Ethernet the router to outside, and attach another router capable of working in a bridge mode. Ideal results will be if it’s a twin to the indoor router.