Divorce her that’s a huge invasion of your privacy. But before you do that do what these fine gentlemen in the comments tell you.
Probably not. The basket is irrelevant, so is the Ethernet cable (there is not enough current to make a big difference). There are so many unknown factors that only testing will show how good it will work. (Keep in mind that 2.4 GHz has more range than 5ghz)
Did you change the brightness already to max?
A little off topic maybe but why not Install openwrt and use your isp router as a modem or is that not possible?
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