That was a useful thought! I now realize that my bandwidth testing was only over the 5GHz channel. I only have some legacy and IOT devices, like my Kindles that use 2.4GHz. I checked the statistics on the AP and found the RF environment on Channel 1 was no longer the best - so I switched it to Channel 7, the current optimum.
It's still not acceptable - but it did only take three tries and a reboot to download a novel.
It's not like I live in an apartment building though. My nearest neighbor is 200 yds away, and on channel 1 I was only showing 2% packets dropped. That doesn't seem like show-stopper.
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