Nighthawk R6700

Currently rocking an old Netgear Nighthawk AC1750, but I'm sure the end is probably soon. All of my heavy internet usage (mainly gaming and large file downloading on main PC) is done on ethernet, the rest like streaming is done over Wi-Fi. The problem I am running into is I can barely get a signal to my disconnected garage. From router to where I need a strong signal is about 50 feet. Should I get a new router? Would a new one be good enough for further reach? Do I need to get a... mesh? system? Any recommendations would be helpful! The other scenario I was thinking was, in between my garage and house is a covered patio. Could that be of any assistance? Would I be able to run a second (covered) ethernet cord through the top of the patio, into my garage if that would make anything cheaper? [Here is a diagram to help](https://imgur.com/R0nqZNB) Any help is appreciated. Thank you! **Edit**: I appreciate all these great and helpful responses. I will say if you didn't notice from the diagram I made, I am a dumbass. So some simplified language may help.

My Nighthawk AC1750 died last year. I replaced it with Netgear RAX36S and it's been fantastic. I use my computer as a media server, so I opted for a Netgear router without a NAS (the new gen Netgears work better without it). After swapping to the RAX36S, I was able to upgrade my Spectrum from legacy 400mbps to 500mbps.

Always, always get a seperate modem and router. As far as netgear specifically, I used one of their NightHawk AC1750 for 8 years with no problems as a standalone router. Only just deprecated it for something new because they stopped doing firmware updates for it.

For what its worth I was having annoying minor issues with my fiber services. I'm work in field ops for spectrum so I checked things out and everything is good with light. So I disconnected the wifi7 they gave me tossed it in a closet and grabbed my 6 year old Netgear AC1750 and haven't looked back.

Not an expert but sharing my very recent experience. I had an old nighthawk Netgear router from 2018 that started to act up, so I got a newer WiFi 7 router from Netgear (RS90) and it was even worse than the old one. After hours on the phone with tech support they couldn’t do much, so I returned it and went with a TP-Link WiFi 6 mesh (Deco X55 AX3000) and it has been working great.

I use eeros for my mesh wifi and it works great with my OPNSense setup. I just dropped it into bridge mode. I physically segregate my LAN / Home WIFinetwork from my Guest and IoT via a 4 port nic and Firewall rules. My IoT stuff runns off a Nighthawk and the Guest also runs off another Nighthawk. BOth running OpenWRT firmware since stock is garbage and insecure.

I dont know about this model but fuck Netgeat Nighthawk. I owned a different one few years ago that was supposed to be a a high spec version, and it caused me infinite problems, which all disappeared when I bought a different one.