[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Taf

Thanks for that, much clearer photos. Skycross surface antennae.

In my situation the 2.4Ghz antennae are facing a brick wall a foot away. Not good. I'd need to try rotating the case 180 degs and have the cabling facing me. Ugly.

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Incidentally that board is quite mucky!

You're welcome. I've made a block diagram from my teardown.

Anyway, on WiFi, you're faced with the dilemma of home aesthetics and practicality. I would always go for practicality, though that might (in my case does) include measures such as Powerline adapters in the house. I was pleasantly surprised to find that with 4 adapters in the house, three downstairs and one upstairs, I nevertheless got 75 Mbps on the upstairs one in the same room 5GHz (circuit is 200 Mbps).