Last brag - testing with aperf / iperf and the phone positioned JUST RIGHT gets up to 8.1Mbps with this nice looking constellation:
[ 6] local 192.168.1.226 port 5001 connected with 172.16.0.4 port 39679
[ 6] 0.0- 1.6 sec 663 KBytes 3.29 Mbits/sec
[ 4] local 192.168.1.226 port 5001 connected with 172.16.0.4 port 47701
[ 4] 0.0-10.5 sec 7.51 MBytes 5.99 Mbits/sec
[ 6] local 192.168.1.226 port 5001 connected with 172.16.0.4 port 49518
[ 6] 0.0-10.6 sec 10.3 MBytes 8.10 Mbits/sec
[ 4] local 192.168.1.226 port 5001 connected with 172.16.0.4 port 59844
[ 4] 0.0-10.8 sec 10.4 MBytes 8.09 Mbits/sec
[ 6] local 192.168.1.226 port 5001 connected with 172.16.0.4 port 38994
[ 6] 0.0-10.7 sec 10.3 MBytes 8.09 Mbits/sec
Looks like channel training / adapting as each test progressed from 3.3, 6.0 and peaked at 8.10Mbps.