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My detached studio is off the end of the house. The modem and router are roughly in the middle of the house. I run 1 gig fiber optic all the way to the modem.

When I first moved into the studio my signal was too weak to be reliable. I started out getting an extender, the TP-link 1200 AC. For the most part that worked pretty well for a couple of years, but more and more I was having to re-boot the extender after having lost the signal. It got to where that was happening nearly once a day, more or less. A friend (who was upgrading the security system at his Washington State outdoor pot farm) brought down a few nodes from his old Deco Mesh network. Leaving the TP-Link extended network (Dharma Gardens) intact, I plugged the first Deco node directly into my router creating a second network (Gaia Zendo) and placed a second Deco node in my studio. Although I left my TP-Link extender in place, I have been running for nearly 75 days on the Deco Mesh network. Not a single drop or even buffering lag during that time. I judge the mesh solution to be superior for my application. With a third Deco node on the front porch, and by relocating my TP-Link extender to the opposite end of the house from my studio, I can now reach to the entire perimeter of my .75 acre property including the barn, vineyard and orchard on one or the other of the two networks.

Hope this provides some perspective.

Blessings.