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As has been mentioned many, many times before on this forum, nearly all consumer grade Wi-Fi routers will not have the CPU to really max out the connection in terms of raw speed. I have the AC86 and while it is a great AP in terms of Wi-Fi speed, it never, ever could get above about 40 Mbps when connected to any Air server running as a router. I finally put together a micro-ATX PC running pfSense and I can maintain multiple active connections to Air (failover), multiple virtual LAN's, pfBlocker (ads/malicious sites), and an OpenVPN server, with my connection nearly maxed to my ISP's limits. For what you will typically spend on the Wi-Fi router, invest a little bit more (if you can) and get a pre-built pfSense box or build one. Then use your existing Wi-Fi router (or just get a decent one) and use it as an AP. In the long run, you will be much happier with overall performance.