Wireless Joint

Thanks again for the help & info. FWIW, it seems a lot of what you're doing is over my head (I had to google mechanical turk, for instance). I'm hoping for a pretty straightforward plug-and-play type solution.

If it makes any difference, I was never looking at the Mofis. Prior to looking at TPLinks ...

Just a quick update...

I was at the lake house this past weekend and tested Tmo & Verizon. Both had similar, acceptable speeds (40-60Mbps down, 5-10Mbps up) including from inside by a window.

Came back home last night and on the way I picked up a TP-Link Archer C7 v2 yesterday ($15, woot ...

Thanks, all. Bill A helped ID the simple thing I was overlooking. Hopefully this is it and not a fluke...

As I mentioned I was worried it was something simple that I was missing, and it appears that was the case... Bill said:

Under custom firewall rules you need to change the interface name to ...