Hey all,

I have a BE9300 tri-band WiFi 7 router in the house, and an Asus RP-N12 WiFi range extender in our summer cottage 120 ft away. Both the house and the cottage are wooden buildings and contain zero metal.

I have a link and it’s stable, but it’s kind of at the edge of the range: the speed isn’t great, and they must be renegotiating the speed all the time because it’s stuttering all the time - to the point where SSHing into a machine in the cottage is seriously annoying. But it’s okay for casual browsing in the cottage.

My problem is that we have an IP camera in the cottage, and I have to severely limit its resolution, FPS and allowed compression bitrate to make it somewhat usable over that link.

So I’m looking for a better range extender. I don’t really want to change the router, I’d rather change the extender - something with more power, or better, with a directional antenna. I can install the antenna in the attic of the cottage, no problem.

Also, I’m not super-keen on the real solution, which is to dig a trench and run a CAT6 cable to the cottage, not because I mind digging a trench, but because I’d rather not punch holes in either building’s walls.

Any speedy powerful range extender you would recommend?

I’m asking here for real human beings’ opinions and recommendations because it’s just about impossible to find actual, honest reviews that aren’t AI-generated crap - or at least highly suspicious - anywhere for this sort of hardware nowadays.