[quote=“Aaron, post:44, topic:178980”]Or just buy a decent router (Netgear or ASUS) with external antennas and buy a direction antenna for it.
anyway… totally OT![/quote]
Throw your Netgear routers in the trash!
And it really isn’t too OT. Using the ping sensor to detect presence is important. You can run into issues though like I did last fall when I was doing work for a long time on a house in front of mine which always got WiFi coverage and Vera always thought I was home. (how I know how robust the coverage of my front yard AP is 
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