How do I switch from Wi-Fi to Ethernet cables?

I had an extender and didnt have much success with it. Went to a mesh setup and solved most of my dropout problems but hard to tell if it made an SQ difference cause I made several other changes that improved my SQ. But I believe it has a roll. My modem is on one end of the house and my rig the other, half dozen sheets of drywall to go through.

I have 3 nodes. The base node connected to router is in direct line of site of node #2 and the 3rd node is hard wired to streamer and is in direct site of #2. Node connected to rig is not in the cabinet with other gear. Its out in the open on the floor.

My neighbor had an extender but was still suffering droputs on his upstairs laptop. Went to a mesh and placed one node on 1st floor directly under the upstairs room where the laptop was used and in direct line of site of the base unit. Problem solved.

You can get a modem that uses a SIM Card, park it right next to your gear.

There’s no good adaptor solution that is better than your current set up.  Besides hiring an electrician to run a new cable for you I encourage you to find a Wifi analyzer for your phone or laptop to check the signal strength and also make sure you are an uncongested channel. Also, use 5GHz instead of 2 GHz if you have a strong enough signal. Fewer people use it and it has better bandwidth.

Keep in mind that audio requires very little bandwidth. A good wifi signal has many times more bandwidth than you’ll need unless you have many other users in the home.

IMO, even if you pour a bunch of money in your wifi, it will not be as stable as a wired connection.  Follow @cleeds advice and get a bid.  

I’ve been using Wifi and carefully analyzing it’s behavior and performance for both audio and video streaming, and I think this is a little unfair:

IMO, even if you pour a bunch of money in your wifi, it will not be as stable as a wired connection.

It really depends on a lot of things, like how congested your wifi neighborhood is, and where exactly your router is and the quality of the signal. I live in the burbs and I can easily do wifi for audio or video here. 4 other competing signals and 4 bars of signal strength. In my San Francisco apartment though, I couldn’t stream anything. :D

I do generally agree that those are the only two options:  Optimize the router channel and placements, and have a hard wire run.  The latter of course is best. :)