AXE6600 ET8 6Ghz issue

[Cdamania10]

Hello All, I am facing a weird issue. I have 4 Asus ET8 setup as a route and yhe rest nodes. Back haul via ethernet connected to a gig switch. It use to work perfectly where all the bands were showing. 2Ghz, 5Ghz and 6Ghz and I had my phone connected to the 6Ghz and showing 6E and if I would move around the house it would transfer the phone to different nodes. Recently I started noticing that even though the wifi 6Ghz is enabled only the ET8 that assets as the main router works with 6Ghz the nodes don't work for 6Ghz it will not display it but setting shows that it's enabled and on.  When I go close to the main router ET8 it connects to 6Ghz instantly. Not sure what is happening and my suspension is something was messed up.after a firmware update came thru. Any assistance would be appreciated. I did a factory reset and still the same. 

[jzchen]

https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/ZenWiFi_ET8/FW_ZENWIFI_ET8_300438823759.zip?model=ZenWiF...

[natedogg4040]

Appreciate ya jzchen!

[natedogg4040]

I can't set the AiMesh to WPA2 for the 6 Ghz channel with the AXE11000 as the main router. It only offers Enhanced Open or WPA3. Does anybody know if this is possible? It looks like you probably can with the AXE-16000. I've seen some people say this could be this issue with the nodes not broadcasting 6E and I even got a pop-up from the router saying so:

[jzchen]

It's correct I have not seen any 6 GHz allow lower than WPA 3.  I have both those routers and WiFi 7 routers as well.  They all require WPA3, but strangely allow Enhancd Open, (which I never choose).

There's a lot of forum chatter regarding issues with the ET8 that seemed to start back in October, sadly...

[natedogg4040]

Did you see this post which talks about getting the ET8's to broadcast 6E?

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/gt-axe11000-with-2-et8-nodes-dont-broadcast-6ghz-fixed-with-3-0-0-...