Problem with WiFi range

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I recently bought an Asus RT-AC88U WiFi Router for my new apartment. The specs are brilliant:

  • Dual-Band Wireless-AC3100 Gigabit Router
  • 4x4 antenna design with AiRadar universal beamforming for unbeatable wireless signal coverage
  • 8 Gigabit LAN ports for 2x the number of wired ports typically provided
  • Unbeatable Wi-Fi Coverage - With a four-transmit, four-receive (4T4R) antenna design, both Wi-Fi range and signal stability improve dramatically. AiRadar beamforming further focuses Wi-Fi signal on your devices, making your Wi-Fi faster, clearer and stronger.

It quotes "Coverage - Very Large Homes". My new apartment is small, 138 sq.metres, and I have installed the router in the corner of my office, which is exactly at the centre of the apartment, every corner of the apartment is within 10 metres of the router.

The problem is, as soon as I move to the next room, I lose signal. Even in the same room, in the opposite corner I drop a bar on both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. I've tried every position of the aerials, put the router vertical and flat, and the same problem occurs.

Yesterday I took two of my old routers to the apartment to test those. Asus RT-AC51U and a TP-Link TD-W8960N. Both of these perform excellently in the apartment, and I get a good signal from every corner of the apartment. So I don't know what the problem is with this new router. Any suggestions?
 
For anyone interested, I may have just sorted the problem.

When I was testing yesterday, I went onto the router's page through internet explorer, and there is a setting for checking and updating to the latest firmware. I ran it, and it said I had the latest firmware.

This morning I checked online anyway to make sure it was the latest firmware, and it wasn't. So downloaded it, went back to the new apartment, flashed to latest firmware, and suddenly wifi range is hugely improved!! Strange, but I'm happy now!
 
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