I'm afraid it was short-lived. My test was on a device that had evidently connected to the 1st router. Once it reconnected to the second router, speeds crawled to 30mbps again. So once again, I'm...

@Kevin_Z Interestingly, I botched router 2 so bad in trying case 2 that I had to factory reset it. In doing so I once again chose router over access point because that's what worked in the past at...

I had taken Case 1. I just tried Case 2 but its condition does not apply to me, and I can't follow the directions because it claims the 2nd router's Internet IP address and the LAN IP address cannot...

I have 1Gbps up/down from my ISP. I get very nearly this throughput on my PC which is wired via CAT6 through two Archer A9 routers. The first of these is in my basement and connects to my fiber. The...