Slow speed in wifi6

I dont know why my system is very slow with wifi-6 connections. I will share the details below:-

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System:
  Kernel: 5.16.5-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
    root=UUID=fc2e3534-fcf8-40a3-af0e-283bdf105cc9 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 tk: GTK 3.24.31 info: plank vt: 7
    dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X542UQR v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X542UQR v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: X542UQR.309 date: 05/21/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 20.5/38.0 Wh (54.0%)
    volts: 7.6 min: 7.6 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: Not charging cycles: 868
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
    family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEA
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 903 high: 1675 min/max: 400/3400 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 700 2: 907 3: 1675 4: 929
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 713 8: 701 bogomips: 28808
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940MX] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
    v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:134d class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 13d3:5a01 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 driver: loaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.5
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.5-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel modules: r8168 port: d000
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lite-On driver: ath9k v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0036
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Lite-On type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:5
    chip-ID: 04ca:3018 class-ID: e001
  Report: bt-adapter note: tool can't run ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down
    bt-service: disabled rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 124.02 GiB (6.7%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 3D scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO M.2 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 192.57 GiB size: 192.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 21.28 GiB (11.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 320.7 MiB size: 320 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 568 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 738.63 GiB size: 738.63 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 102.74 GiB (13.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 192.57 GiB size: 192.57 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 21.28 GiB (11.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C pch: 43.5 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2500
Info:
  Processes: 313 Uptime: 35m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.65 GiB
  used: 2.32 GiB (30.4%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1309 lib: 376 flatpak: 0
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.12

That chip doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) let alone Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac).

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