My own WiFi Router or ATT's when on 1000mbps

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That’s pretty decent WiFi speeds. You need to check what the max download/upload for the AC radios on the devices you are using to see if they can support higher speeds than what your current router supports. You may not see any improvement because the device doesn’t support it. Just cause you have gig service, doesn’t mean your tablet or phone or whatever can actually use all of the gig service with the WiFi radio in it.

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Yea, we have 2 Canary alarm/baby monitors and those things are sluggish. They're also the furthest away from the router though, so that could be the culprit.

How do I check the devices max download/upload?

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ATT equipment sucks. I finally broke down and bought a costly modem and router and they have been so much better.

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What modem/router did you buy? Do you mean you completely replaced the AT&T provided modem? If so, I didn't think that was possible.

I have an older (3+ years now) Apple Time Capsule router that I may try but I figured the newer stuff would be better.

I'd call. They can always run diagnostic tests on there end to see if something is wrong from there side.

One thing I've noticed over the years is the channel your 2.4ghz and 5ghz network resides on. Most of the time the default setting is "Automatic" for routers. So it'll choose what it thinks is the best channel that has the least congestion.

But if your neighbor gets a new router or service and begins to take the same channel space, signal degradation. Or even if you get new toys that use WiFi. A new watch that uses wifi, printer, amazon echo, etc.

I make it a habit to check my wifi channel's maybe 1-2 a month to make sure I'm not interfering with someone and vice versa. May want to get an app on a laptop that does something similar.

Your 5ghz wifi speeds are about what I typically see when testing speeds on 1gb service profiles. I usually don't test 2.4 separately so I don't have a baseline there. When it comes to max wifi speeds our own internal documentation states that max speeds on 5ghz are still undetermined but I have seen between 350 and 450mbps on the download and mid to upper 500's on the upload.

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Yea, we have 2 Canary alarm/baby monitors and those things are sluggish. They're also the furthest away from the router though, so that could be the culprit.

How do I check the devices max download/upload?

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You'll want to google the name of your device alongside "spatial streams." This will tell you how many antennae it has. Sometimes hard to find decent info on that, though. If a device is AC capable, it is theoretically capable of receiving data at a rate of 433 Mbps on the 5GHZ band, per spatial stream. That's theoretical, and factors affecting it will include channel width, interference, range, and current load on the router. 5GHz band has less range as well.

A decent smartphone with AC wireless will probably have two spatial streams (generally described as dual spatial streaming, dual antenna, or 2x2, meaning 2 down and 2 up). Same for most laptops, but one antenna is also pretty common.

On the 2.4ghz band, interference becomes a much larger factor. Channel width pretty much has to be 20Mhz, so 35 to 72 Mbps is about the best you'll do on most devices.

Undoubtedly a high-end aftermarket wifi solution will give you better range/coverage than AT&T's equipment, but one thing you'll have to think about it WAN to LAN throughput -- which is literally how much throughput the router will pass from the modem to your devices. Routers may support x amount of throughput locally, but quite a few of them have WAN to LAN throughput of only a few hundred mbps, even for wired devices. Reason being, it's perfectly fine for 99% of the population, but for you lucky bunch with gigabit, you have to pay close attention to the equipment you buy so you can get most of the bandwidth you paid for. Trouble is, finding data on that is pretty tough, especially for the newer equipment. I would wager the second router you linked would have pretty good WAN to LAN, but smallnetbuilder shows they're at about 700-750mbps for the older/lesser models (like the AC2600 and AC1900).

There's no way this is an exhaustive list, as I imagine that fancy Linksys is newer than these, and no one can keep up with testing every router for things like this:

Come on. Just get in the attic and drop cat line down where the coax lines are. Simple. Winter is coming so it will be comfortable up in the attic.

There is no worse feeling then when trying to fish a wall than when my glow rods or magnepull suddenly encounter firestops. I have actually had several customers cancel fiber installs because they had firestops in every stud cavity and were dead set against having wires showing on the outside of their house.

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Getting about 900mbps download and 9500mpbs upload. That's more than I'll ever need.

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Bill Gates said we'd never need more than 640k memory.