Pinebook pro poor performance on 5Ghz WiFi

[nbxmike]

I believe took the advice and downgraded the driver.  I performed the following steps, stated here specifically rather than linking to vague steps so anyone who wants to help me knows exactly what I did:

Download:
Got the old package from:

Code:

http://ftp-nyc.osuosl.org/pub/manjaro-arm/repo/stable/community/aarch64/ap6256-firmware-2020.01-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
http://ftp-nyc.osuosl.org/pub/manjaro-arm/repo/stable/community/aarch64/ap6256-firmware-2020.01-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz.sig

Downgrade:
Opened a bash shell and changed to the Download directory.
Typed the command to install the downloaded package:

Code:

sudo pacman -U ap6256-firmware-2020.01-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz

Lock:
To ensure the package doesn’t "upgrade" immediately back to the buggy version, I added it to the ignore list in the file /etc/pacman.conf.  Found the line ignore package line which now reads:

Code:

IgnorePkg =  ap6256-firmware

Restore:
When I should care to try a newer version of the WiFi firmware in the future, I understand I must either install it manually repeating the download and install, or, comment the IgnorePkg line again and let normal upgrades take their course.


Assuming the above is the process that is described / cross linked in preceding posts, I am working with the best know Broadcom driver and the performance may have improved but not significantly.  Are their any other recommendations I should be following; like perhaps an antenna upgrade?

Thanks