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How far is long range to you?

You might be better off to do a Station->AP wireless shot with a couple of Nanobeams if you're getting crap signal, if there is electricity where your signal is crap. If you'd like to use Ubiquiti, that is.

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just about 15m, but it needs to go through a wall. It’s not even a big apartment, and the walls are not that thick, but as it’s in 1 direction, I’ll try to get a directional antenna as the other commenter advised. Also probably any long-range device will be better than the cheap Wifi 6 Archer that I bought (although it was a great improvement for short range ping time compared to the Wifi 5 router that I had before)

If you manage get the signal from the AP to the device, just remember the device has to be able to talk back.

If the device is low powered, this may still be a problem.

A multi AP system allows the higher powered APs to talk to each other, and the lower powered devices to talk to the nearest AP.

sure, I’ll try that, but when I tried it before, the added latency was as bad as the original connection (though the repeaters didn’t have external antenna).

Quite often the biggest problem is not the transmission speed / latency, but my Samsung Note 10 reconnects to the AP randomly.

If it’s headed through a wall, you might be better off putting an AP in the room that it will be used and backhauling over power line adapters or a MoCA adapter if you have some unused coax drops. It doesn’t seem like you would get good performance out of power line adapters in that application, but my experience has been pretty good. You can even find Homeplug devices that also do PoE, so it’s minimal wiring at the AP.

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