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WAX630E connecting 2.4 instead of 5 ghz
I just Bought 2 WAX630E to replace my Unifi AC wireless. I am having issues setting them up right off the bat. The main issue i see is there is no option to set a prefered band like on other system...
Zzup wrote:
I found that if you disable the 6 ghz portion of the AP then the clients correctly associate with the 5 ghz instead of the 2.4 ghz. This seems to be a bug.
With 6 GHz enabled WPA3 is mandatory, so previously configured clients for the same SSID and PSK might not work for other bands (without dropping the config and re-adding). Lack of insight, impossible to answer.
A fresh client with no config would do this behavior. And when they connected to 2.4 they were connecting with WPA3.
Also i should clerify that i did not turn off the 6 ghz radio but just disabled it on that one SSID. Then i added a second SSID with just the 6 ghz. With WPA 3 enabled on both. This solved the issue for now.
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