Can't See Individual Bands on AX6600

[fishesman]

I have an AX6600 set up as AIMesh with two nodes. I've had trouble connecting devices to my network like an older HP printer and a wireless bird feeder camera. I started to dig into the issue and noticed that the router was set to smart connect and was in 5 GHz-2 backhaul only mode. I don't recall setting it up in backhaul mode when I first installed the equipment a couple of years ago, so maybe settings changed in an update? I switched smart connect off and changed to 2.4, 5-1, 5-2 GHz band mode. I thought this would solve the problem by allowing me to connect each device manually to the band I desire, but the individual bands don't show up in my network list (there's only one network called ASUS ZenWifi AX6600). As I was trying to sort all this out I realized that my guest network also isn't showing in my list of available networks. I checked the settings and a 2.4 GHz guest network is enabled. Can anyone tell me why I can't see the individual bands on my network list? How about the guest network? My firmware is up to date. Thanks in advance!

 

[fleckens]

Have you checked to see if the device is actually transmitting on 2.4Ghz ?

Try to install WIFI analyser on your phone and check?

Have you tried a factory reset and started fresh?

Lastly, worse case it could be that the 2.4Ghz radios are faulty.

What does your system status look like? here's mine.... I split bands too....

 

[fishesman]

Thanks for the help! I noticed where you blocked out your network names that each had a unique name. Mine were identical for all 3 bands, so I gave each a unique name. I didn't notice any difference after this change. I then started comparing the settings in my 2.4 and 5 GHz bands under the "professional" settings and noticed the DTIM interval had non-sense entered in it. As soon as I clicked on it I was prompted to enter a number value, so I entered "1" (like the other bands). After this change, 2.4 suddenly appeared as an available network. I'm not exactly sure what I did, but it seems to be working.

 

[fleckens]

Great glad you sorted it. I keep them split and named like that as I like to keep the 5ghz band free for only the devices the will benifit from the extra bandwidth. Laptops, phones mostly and a firestick. The 3rd band does only backhaul.