Any way to increase wifi range?

Or most cost-effective...

Maybe I am thinking of only certain models of camera, but I am confused why we are talking about wifi modems and routers, when I believe the OP is talking about a phone app connecting directly to the camera. Either this happens using wifi protocols or uses Bluetooth, if this is the case, and then the home network doesn’t matter.

Can we get the configuration for the OP figured out first before we run off about home networks, access points, repeaters, and a bunch of things that may not come into play?

For example, with my R6 and 5D4, I turn on wifi on the camera, it gives me an SSID to connect my phone to, I change my wifi settings on the phone to connect to that SSID, enter the password shown on my screen, and now my camera and phone are connected via WiFi, BUT NOT through my home network.

I assume this is what the OP is doing as well, and then they are having range issues. Access points, repeaters, antenna, etc will not help in this scenario, correct?

Well, if you connect your phone via an infrastructure, then it does. The app may allow direct connection only (haven't checked, have to do that), but via the WFT server mode you can connect to a network.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #19308261
I assume this is what the OP is doing as well, and then they are having range issues. Access points, repeaters, antenna, etc will not help in this scenario, correct?

I plead guity to answering the Subject, but not answering the last statement in OP!

It does seem that OP does have a specific question about direct peer-to-peer wireless communication, analogous to smartphone-to-headset...camera-to-smartphone or equivalent, with no router/modem/WAP or other 'network' involvement.

OTOH, OP has not come back to comment on any of the generic network range replies, to state "...but that isn't what I am interested in doing" to try to refocus the replies to be more pertinent to the situation being improved upon.

Wrap everything in tinfoil, it might boost the signal. If it's not, it looks awesome!

/ Magnus

TeamSpeed wrote in post #19308261
Can we get the configuration for the OP figured out first before we run off about home networks, access points, repeaters, and a bunch of things that may not come into play?

Hmmm, lots may have changed since the original post from April 2018.

John from PA wrote in post #19308844
Hmmm, lots may have changed since the original post from April 2018.

Considering the post is about the 5d4, nope nothing has changed.

Same thing as the R6, tell the camera to act like a wifi hot spot and connect your phone to it, and away they go. No wifi router or LAN needed, the camera and your phone creates a private LAN.

Wilt, doing anything other than a peer to peer will only serve to add even more latency and lag, despite trying to add more range. When doing live view and seeing something in the past as “current” on your smart device is useless for shooting anything.

Without info from the thread starter from three years ago, it’s hard to say what the solution is.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #19308847
Wilt, doing anything other than a peer to peer will only serve to add even more latency and lag, despite trying to add more range. When doing live view and seeing something in the past as “current” on your smart device is useless for shooting anything.

Without info from the thread starter from three years ago, it’s hard to say what the solution is.

No disagreement from me. I was merely emphasizing the specific nature of the peer-to-peer use described by OP, versus the generalized nature of the Subject line submitted by same OP. Was not debating the utility of one vs. the other. Only pointing out that peer-to-peer imposes the restrictions that were designed into product implementations by the engineers, and as you point out, the problems of getting around those design restrictions.