Right. I have an issue at my studio. I’ve just spent an hour and a half contending with it today and it’s driving me up the wall. The main issue is that the people who run the studios are, unsurprisingly, artists. Painters and the like. They have bugger all knowledge of networking problems. The only thing they do know really, is that they shouldn’t let idiots like me ( or any other tenant) near the router. Which means I don’t get to do simple things like reboot the damn thing.

Le sigh.

Compounding this is the fact that this studio is in an old Firestation. The walls are serious walls of a highly serious nature, through which feckin wifi fears to pass. I currently use my phone as a hotspot, to get around the fluctuations of the signal, but for example today, the mobile signal in the middle of Dunfermline (4G 🙁 ) was much worse than usual. It’s also just not ideal.

Anyway. I’ve noticed that while my computer (Mac mini M1) is prone to losing grip on a weak wifi signal. My phone will keep hold of it. So I have two questions/options.

Is there a way for my phone to grab the wifi signal and then connect by USB to effectively act as the network connection. Or am I stuck using mobile data if I hotspot this way?
I recently replaced my router with a very serious gaming router. The old router isn’t actually that old. It just couldn’t cope with a nerd-family in lockdown. If I was to take that here, to my studio. Would it work well enough as a wifi extender and keep hold of those weak signals that my Mac can’t? Those massive antennae must be good for summit right?