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It seems the throughput has evolved over each spec but the reliability and distance hasn't, unless I'm mistaken? This is a big problem in place where concrete is used to build homes (e.g. the tropics) as the improvements to Wifi are basically not really relevant.

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And 802.11ah, in 900MHz which has some hope of penetrating such walls, is still very scarce and the hardware fairly expensive.

Otherwise you just have to run a wire through the wall and put an AP in the room. Your clients can still be wireless for the last few feet, which preserves the convenience of usage, just not the convenience of deployment.

This is basically my strategy.

At some point, you just can’t beat physics. For best results you need multiple aps anyway.

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