I'm also experience abysmal Wi-Fi performance with QCA6174 on a new
Lenovo Yoga 910 - dropping connection every few minutes, reporting very
low network strength coverage.

Out of the box, the card didn't work at all with neither Ubuntu Xenial
LTS nor elementaryOS 0.4 Loki, but I got it running rudimentarily with
the latest hwe-edge kernel 4.10.0.20 and linux-firmware (1.164).  I've
tried upgrading to the latest firmware packages from github.com /kvalo
/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6174 to fix the poor connection
performance of the network card, but it sadly doesn't seem to have had
any noticeable effect.

I've also disabled the network card power-savings, disabled IPv6, tried
all sorts of tinkering with the router, nothing seems to fix the poor
performance.  A weird quirk I noticed is that if the notebook is
completely still, network connection drops less frequently, but if the
computer is moved by just a bit, then the network connection drops
noticeably.

One problem is that the network indicator doesn't even report that the
connection has been lost/dropped, the only way it's noticed is the long
buffering time it takes suddenly to load websites:  sudo service
network-manager stop/start fixes this temporarily, but this is far from
a solution and very annoying.

What can I do to fix this (apart from using Windows :( )?  Any
recommendations?

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  Poor performance of Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac (rev 32) (Killer Wireless
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