In my experience the alternative firmwares were worse. I ended up contacting TP-Link support and they were actually quite helpful though. They sent me a beta f

In my experience the alternative firmwares were worse. I ended up contacting TP-Link support and they were actually quite helpful though. They sent me a beta firmware that's mostly resolved the issues. I don't know if it's been publicly released yet though (I got it around a year ago now from memory).