As a very late addition, I have had 2 years of messing about with Mini PCs and trying to use two different Wifi extenders so the MiniPCs ran off a Wifi network in the dome…. The Minipcs are convenient as they sit quite happily on the plastic cover that goes over the polarscope on the NEQ6 meaning fewer cable tangles.
However, I found that, due to Microsoft’s updates, its not tenable. Every time they applied a Windows update the connection died and I had to connect a monitor/keyboard/mouse and tell it (yet) again my manual addresses, my DNS preferences, gateways, masks etc. Last weeks failure occurred 30 mins into the observing run meaning I lost my sky model. Enough is enough. I’m going over to using the ethernet output of a TP-Link adaptor and yet another cable.
I suspect you can work consistently over Wifi if you use Linux machines in the dome but my chosen camera software does not work under Linux – may have to change that…
So, TL:DR given a choice between Wifi in dome and ethernet in dome while using Windows, just say no to Wifi.
