Will a AC Wifi adapter help?

Since you can’t get a proper iperf3 test, then try a dd test instead.

$ dd if=movie.mkv of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress

Of course replacing movie.mkv with the name of a file on the NAS to test with.

You did’t mention how you are mounting your files. Are you using fstab, or Kodi mounts?