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. 

[MKFlyers2K]

Update? Asus? Baahahahaha. Not at you. But I wish.

[Cdamania10]

It may be a mute topic but did anyone get anything on this issue or possibly find any kid of solution. 

[MKFlyers2K]

Nope. And Asus is ignoring my emails at this point. Might be time to call Saul.

[natedogg4040]

Nope, and I've decided to completely abandon the entire Asus brand. I'm done with anything that has the label. I'm already in the process of selling all of my networking equipment. 

For now, I've replaced it with the eero 6e mesh system and it's been great. It's fast, easy to setup, intuitive, and best of all, IT WORKS AS ADVERTISED. (Imagine that). 

Sure, it's not a configurable to flexible, but at this point the eero mesh cost HALF of what my AiMesh cost and it's outperforming it be a lot, so who cares. I just hope I can recoup some of my investment out of the Asus POS. 

[SpaceAntelope]

I created an account just so I could pass this along.  After reading this thread and tearing my hair out I finally fixed the ET8 6ghz node issue.

I saw someone else had rolled back to 3.0.0.4.388_23759 and it worked, but someone else did the same and it didn’t.  When I flashed to 3.0.0.4.388_23759 it didn’t work initially.   What I did wrong was hit the reset button (the one you need a pin/pen to reset)…well that brings it back to whatever firmware was originally on the router- in my case after that update.   The second time I made the mistake of not factory resetting after uploading 3.0.0.4.388_23759 (using the WPS method).  After doing that it finally worked! 6ghz on the satellite node!  So long story short here’s what you need to do:

1) download 3.0.0.4.388_23759 from Asus. Make sure your HW number is correct.  You will need to hit “expand all” to find this older firmware.

2) upload the firmware to the routers…make sure to do it to all of them.

3) factory reset by turning the routers off, holding the WPS button while turning on, *continue holding WPS until the light does not come back on* (it will cycle twice).* Do this for all the routers.

that’s it, simple but it finally worked.  Hope this helps someone else.