Archer AX6000 very poor wifi range and throughput
I recently bought the AX6000 to replace a netgear R7000.
The AX6000 has about 1/3 the range about 1/8 the through put.
I have it net AP mode.
It's so bad I can't even watch youtube 480p from 10m away.
AX on a killer 1650 is also barely better than AC on the R7000.
I have tried:
- changing it's location
- smart connect off/on
- antennas at different angles
- upside down
I thnk I have defective unit but it's hard to exchange, as it all seems to work fine w/ 4 bars (not 5 like all my other routers) but through put is awful, almost unuseable unless your within 3 meters.
Even the free modem/router my ISP gives away is MUCH faster.
My testing is also against a directly RJ45 NAS.
What can I do?