WiFi streaming — streamer vs. through iPad

I use this little wireless bridge to then hardwire to my streamer/DAC: TPLink N300. Aside from being tiny and unobtrusive it has the benefit of being powered by 5V micro USB so I was able to use a spare linear power supply to further enhance it. I was using a USB wifi dongle in the SOtM sMS-200ultra streamer I had at the time and was shocked at how much better the sound was with hardwire via wifi bridge. Also switching out a generic ethernet cable for a Supra CAT8 brought a very noticeable improvement I was not expecting.

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Use a device designed to grab wifi signals, an extender or a router node.

The TP Link AC750 looks interesting to me — thanks @eugene81 ​​​@ghdprentice ​​​​@audiotroy from your experience do you have any WiFi extender recommendations that have worked particularly well?.  Thanks a lot guys!  This has been SUPER helpful. 

I tried extender technology with not much success.  I dropped the cash for a Linksys Velop mesh network.  Plugged the Roon server directly into one of the nodes.  Totally stabilized my system and my home network as well.

BTW, I don’t use Roon so that’s not an issue.