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If you really need gigabit throughput on wifi, you'd use the now deprecated 802.11ad standard (WiGig) on both the router and an adapter. That's what it's for. But 60 GHz attenuates over extremely short distances. The most MIMO streams you can currently find on 802.11ac PCIe adapters is 4, for a...

It may be that your 2.4 GHz channel is too congested, and its contention window is too long, for any device to connect. Especially in an apartment building where your neighbors are using 40 MHz channel widths. If so (and you can use a wifi analyzing app to check), then a different extender...

Most range extenders don't require Ethernet backhaul, since "wifi over WiFi" is their main usage case. And you wouldn't need a range extender to increase the receiver gain (in dBi) at that weak spot. You could just use a wifi client (like an Alfa adapter) with a high gain antenna, say 9-12 dBi...

It's actually a range extender, so it duplicates your router's packets and cuts throughput in half. It would work with routers that support 802.11n, and to get the most out of it, you'd use a router with 2x2:2 802.11n to match the extender's 300 Mbps link rate. Not sure why they call it an...

There's no such thing. Make one yourself, or wait until 802.11ax cards reach the market and see if they have M.2 pinouts.

You can search WikiDevi for specs like below, but there might not be much out there yet. What you can find more readily are adapter kits and PCIe risers. The right sort of riser in a desktop case can save you plenty of slots. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_PCE-AC55BT_B1

A good starting point would be checking the limits for point to multipoint radiated power on wifi bands at the link below. The US and Canada appear to allow up to 4 watts/36 dBm, so that might be the starting point for your link budget. If you can use street lamps and utility poles for access...

Specifically, 1x1:1 means one transmitting antenna and one receiving antenna for one spatial stream. The Intel card supports a link rate of 433.3 Mbps on 5 GHz and 150 Mbps on 2.4 GHz. Were it 2x2:2, it would support 866.7 and 300 Mbps respectively. A single device would not be able to connect...

Is there any sort of cabling that can be run between the house and garage? Also, which materials are the walls between the house and garage made of (drywall, brick, concrete, etc.)?

For gaming, if you must use wifi at all, keep it on a single router. Any additional network hops add latency, any range extender cuts throughput, and any multipath propagation risks packet loss. It's usually better to upgrade a router's antennas to improve the receiver gain (for $5-$20 on eBay)...

Can you use a wifi analyzer app and post the following? -# of other SSIDs on the same channel as your range extender -RSSI (in -dBm) and link rate (in Mbps) of the extender