A method comprising: receiving a first radio frequency, RF, signal at a wireless repeater at a first time, the first RF signal being communicated from a transmitter and directed over a communications path to a receiver, the wireless repeater operating in a repeater mode at the first time, the wireless repeater being in the communications path between a first portion of the communications path and a second portion of the communications path; downconverting the first RF signal to a first intermediate frequency, IF, signal; determining a first signal quality value of the first IF signal; evaluating whether the first signal quality value satisfies a first signal quality condition indicating that a signal quality of the first RF signal has degraded below a threshold; when the first signal quality value satisfies the first signal quality condition: muting a transmitting radio frequency unit, RFU, of the wireless repeater; switching the wireless repeater to a regenerator mode; unmuting the transmitting RFU of the wireless repeater; demodulating the first IF signal to first data, remodulating the first data to generate a remodulated IF signal; when the first signal quality value does not satisfy the first signal quality condition, maintaining the wireless repeater in the repeater mode; upconverting a second IF signal to a second RF signal; and transmitting, via the transmitting RFU, the second RF signal to the second portion of the communications path, wherein, when the first signal quality value satisfies the first signal quality condition, the second IF signal is the remodulated IF signal, and when the first signal quality value does not satisfy the first signal quality condition, the second IF signal is the first IF signal. receiving a first radio frequency, RF, signal at a wireless repeater at a first time, the first RF signal being communicated from a transmitter and directed over a communications path to a receiver, the wireless repeater operating in a repeater mode at the first time, the wireless repeater being in the communications path between a first portion of the communications path and a second portion of the communications path; downconverting the first RF signal to a first intermediate frequency, IF, signal; determining a first signal quality value of the first IF signal; evaluating whether the first signal quality value satisfies a first signal quality condition indicating that a signal quality of the first RF signal has degraded below a threshold; when the first signal quality value satisfies the first signal quality condition: muting a transmitting radio frequency unit, RFU, of the wireless repeater; switching the wireless repeater to a regenerator mode; unmuting the transmitting RFU of the wireless repeater; demodulating the first IF signal to first data, remodulating the first data to generate a remodulated IF signal; when the first signal quality value does not satisfy the first signal quality condition, maintaining the wireless repeater in the repeater mode; upconverting a second IF signal to a second RF signal; and transmitting, via the transmitting RFU, the second RF signal to the second portion of the communications path, wherein, when the first signal quality value satisfies the first signal quality condition, the second IF signal is the remodulated IF signal, and when the first signal quality value does not satisfy the first signal quality condition, the second IF signal is the first IF signal. when the first signal quality value satisfies the first signal quality condition: muting a transmitting radio frequency unit, RFU, of the wireless repeater; switching the wireless repeater to a regenerator mode; unmuting the transmitting RFU of the wireless repeater; demodulating the first IF signal to first data, remodulating the first data to generate a remodulated IF signal; muting a transmitting radio frequency unit, RFU, of the wireless repeater; switching the wireless repeater to a regenerator mode; unmuting the transmitting RFU of the wireless repeater; demodulating the first IF signal to first data, remodulating the first data to generate a remodulated IF signal; when the first signal quality value does not satisfy the first signal quality condition, maintaining the wireless repeater in the repeater mode; upconverting a second IF signal to a second RF signal; and transmitting, via the transmitting RFU, the second RF signal to the second portion of the communications path, wherein, when the first signal quality value satisfies the first signal quality condition, the second IF signal is the remodulated IF signal, and when the first signal quality value does not satisfy the first signal quality condition, the second IF signal is the first IF signal.