The broken one is the one in the red circle connected to the board by a wire into an ipex laptop style connector, the other two are fine and seem to be soldiered directly to traces unlike the one that broke. I can't see any traces going to it on the front or back of the board like the other two, but I don't know how many layers the board is. The wired one which broke was connected to the board by what looked like 4 pins on the back of the connector(antenna mount) that went through the board and stuck out the back a mm or so, and were soldiered, I hope just to mount it. Something hit it and broke all 4 pins off flush. Would I need to try and solder it back on or just glue it in place? It did seem to work ok after it was damaged a year or so ago even though the right antenna was flopping all over the place and I had it leaning against the wall but then I put it away, I opened it up a few days ago to see I might have gotten really lucky with it being the wired one.. would there be some grounding issue?
Part 2 I use an ac86u as main and did have the 68u as a slave aimesh using Ethernet backhaul a couple years ago, but haven't bothered since it made little difference in my small house, however now I want to run a 100 feet ethernet to a freestanding metal garage that gets absolutely no signal and no cellular. Is there a point in using ai mesh if there is a decent gap between both routers? I expect standing in the yard between them I will get no signal from either. I also have a ac66r that I could use as a wired repeater, would using a 68u in mesh mode even make a difference over the 66 which doesn't have aimesh? My only goal is to get YouTube videos while I'm working on my cars, it is a pain in the butt to get out from under a car 10 times to walk to the house and watch a 30 minute video while I'm all greasy then yes probably up to 10 times I've made the trip, it really makes one feel stupid.. needing to re-watch the same 30 second part 30 seconds after I crawled back under the car and immediately forgot. 9 times.
Part 2 I use an ac86u as main and did have the 68u as a slave aimesh using Ethernet backhaul a couple years ago, but haven't bothered since it made little difference in my small house, however now I want to run a 100 feet ethernet to a freestanding metal garage that gets absolutely no signal and no cellular. Is there a point in using ai mesh if there is a decent gap between both routers? I expect standing in the yard between them I will get no signal from either. I also have a ac66r that I could use as a wired repeater, would using a 68u in mesh mode even make a difference over the 66 which doesn't have aimesh? My only goal is to get YouTube videos while I'm working on my cars, it is a pain in the butt to get out from under a car 10 times to walk to the house and watch a 30 minute video while I'm all greasy then yes probably up to 10 times I've made the trip, it really makes one feel stupid.. needing to re-watch the same 30 second part 30 seconds after I crawled back under the car and immediately forgot. 9 times.
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