IPhone 6 - Wifi always dropping, nightmare to reconnect

I wasn't allowed to post in any iPhone community for some bizarre reason..but I'm having serious trouble with my iPhone 6 and wifi.
The connection drops constantly and then it takes around 15 minutes of continuously clicking to get it to reconnect. This has happened since the moment I took it out of the box, and it took me over an hour before I was even able to progress through the initial setup (there was no skip wifi setup the first time round!).
I get the 'unable to connect' and 'incorrect password' messages over and over, despite the password being correct (as it always eventually does connect). If I leave my phone unattended for a second then it will disconnect, and it will never connect automatically when I get home. To get it working, I literally have to toggle airplane mode around 100 times and continuously click our wifi until finally it decides to connect. When connected though, the wifi works great. But it disconnects so often (every time I pick up my phone) and it takes so, so long to reconnect that it's basically unusable.
- Handset has been changed, so it's not a hardware issue with the phone.
- Software all up to date, on the phone and the router.
- Router is standard from TalkTalk (Huawei HG523a), but it works so great and fast for every other device (iPhone 5s, Macbook Pro) and hasn't ever lost connection with those, so I'm assuming the hardware is also fine with that.
- Tried all the usual things on the phone - 'reset network settings', restoring (as new and NOT from iCloud backup), etc.
- Made sure all my internet settings match these: iOS and OS X: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points - Apple Support.
It seemed to connect fine to the wifi in the Apple store when I got the phone changed for a new one, to which I was advised my problem might be specific to password protected wifi's....? Any help would be appreciated. I'm not buying a new router just so my iPhone 6 connects better - iPhone 4 and 5 connect fine, so why doesn't the 6?

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