WAX630E Root and Extender Association Disconnect Issue

I have had a case open with NETGEAR for over 2 months. They released 10.8.8,7 which was supposed to fix this but the problem still remains (at least on 6Ghz band)

Problem:

WAX630E devices in a Root and Extender scenario fail to maintain connections. Wireless connection also degrades over a 24 hour period.

Log files show that an extender or multiple units try to reassociate with the Root station and the Root station does not allow them as it thinks it has reached a client limit. This is not possible in my scenario as I do not have any amount of endpoints that would surpass the limitation and I do not have load balancing turned on.

The issue shows as “association denied for whatever extender name due to maximum client count reached” which is a clear bug.

I have to reboot my root basestation every 24 hours due to this issue. It’s a giant inconvenience as this brings down my entire wireless network once a day and the extender(s) that drop are random so all devices connected to them go down when they fail to re-associate due to this bug. I have not heard any updates to my recently opened ticket in weeks.

Please fix this problem.