It has been a couple of weeks since I moved the router closer to my printer. I am happy to say that after moving the router to within about a 6ft line of sight with my printer, I have been enjoying DWC undisturbed by constant dropouts, save for one instance today, which I believe I can attribute to mistakenly trying to upload a g-code file into the job list via Slicer while another print was in progress.
I had enough confidence in the system's stability now that I invested in a smart effector & rods for the printer as well and I couldn't be happier with the result.
Thank you to everyone that replied and helped out a new user struggling. When I get around to building a second printer, I know what board I'm putting in it.