Nope, picked the most clogged channel there was so I could walk all over everybody!!!!

If you can't tell by now, your less than helpful comments and posts have worn me down and I don't give a shit what you say anymore. I've gotten plenty of help from others. I really don't care if you're the smartest man on this forum, if you come across as prude and can't effectively communicate it doesn't mean squat.

2.4 Ghz Band? Clean channel?

You shut up, OP thinks you're overpaid.

I spend easily 33% of my day trying to get customers to understand why their WiFi is not getting faster and its not their ISPs fault.

And when they ask me how much, I tell them you cant afford it. Its not worth getting paid to do that job and have the customer call you until the end of time bitching.

So you are saying I don't need the AP in the same room as my office at 100% power?

It depends on your needs. Do you make whole or part of your living over the devices in your office? Do you run apps that are constantly exchanging data over this connection? Do you require something with full duplex network connection in this location? Do you run any apps that require low latency (ping) to operate efficiently? Do you do any computer or console gaming in this location?

If you answer yes to any of the above you shouldn't be using a WiFi connection to your router. The words "office" and "WiFi" shouldn't be used together unless absolutely necessary. WiFi is a connection of convenience, and should never be thought to be 100% reliable to deliver the 5 9's of uptime.