“If I place this router by a window with a direct line of sight to my house house, which is roughly 250 feet away, would I be able to pick up a decent Wi-Fi signal at the guest house 250ft away? If not any suggestions, besides digging to hardwire?”
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Maybe. You can try it, but that’s almost the length of a football field and is a pretty long distance for WiFi to travel.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Definitely not with this router. I live in a 1100 sq ft home and it struggled from one side to the other. My ideas for hardwiring, would be a piping or anyway to incase the wiring and put it in the ground but where its flush with the top of soil. Just dont ever forget that its there. Lol. Technically, no digging.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you do pick up the Wi-Fi in the other house, it's probably going to be the 2.4GHz band, which is slower, but has the longest range of the supported bands. I'd be more concerned with disconnects - that was my constant issue with this router (check out my detailed review). Another idea, if your houses are connected to the same electric system, would be to consider connecting them with PowerLine Ethernet adapters. I've attached a few product examples. Good luck!
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I would try a netgear signal amplifier in the guest house.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.A lot of factors will be taken into consideration like a metal building if it's wood well insulated how dense the walls are block brick not sure what you're going through you can try it like it is if it doesn't work as well as you want add another router in the guest house and set it up as a repeater I have found that works very well one other idea is if you have an external antenna you can unscrew it and add a directional antenna to that router and point it towards your guest house lots of external directional antennas online that you can mount outside hope this helps
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