ROG 98 Pro: Fire Stick 4K Max won’t connect to WiFi 6E???

[Poseidon]

I recently purchased an Amazon Fire Stick 4k Max (2nd Gen) and the box states that it connects to WiFi 6E but I have been unsuccessful in trying to connect to any of my wireless 6 clients on the Asus ROG GT-98 PRO.

I keep getting a “connection timed out” error message. I have rebooted both my modem and router to no avail.

Funny thing is that it wouldn’t even connect to WiFi 5 unless I lowered the security from WPA2/3 to just WPA 2.

Might there be another settings issue in my Asus 98 Pro router that night be causing the Fire Stick to not connect to 6E?

I have already disabled WiFi 7 setting but no luck.

Also how much of a risk is lowering the 5GHz wireless security to just WPA2 personal?

Should I just connect the Fire Stick to a “Guest Network” instead?

 

[Analog-1]

I recently purchased an Amazon Fire Stick 4k Max (2nd Gen) and the box states that it connects to WiFi 6E

Are you certain it says wifi 6E or simply wifi 6 big difference.

 

[Poseidon]

Are you certain it says wifi 6E or simply wifi 6 big difference.

Definitely states 6E. Noted on the website description as well. Something is causing a connection timeout error message.

 

[jzchen]

Did you enable Preferred Scanning Channels (PSC check box)?

(I hate how it enforces the same setting on both 6GHz-1 and 6 GHz-2).

 

[Poseidon]

Did you enable Preferred Scanning Channels (PSC check box)?

(I hate how it enforces the same setting on both 6GHz-1 and 6 GHz-2).

PSC is enabled on both 6GHz bands by default? Should I disable that setting or keep it enabled?

Also is there a huge risk is downgrading the 5GHz security from WPA 2/3 to just WPA 2?

 

[jzchen]

PSC is enabled on both 6GHz bands by default? Should I disable that setting or keep it enabled?

Also is there a huge risk is downgrading the 5GHz security from WPA 2/3 to just WPA 2?

Enabling PSC is supposed to help clients see the selected channel, I'd keep it on for now...

Regarding the WPA, supposedly WPA2 is hackable, but I've had my wife's work provided laptop refuse to work with EERO 6 Pros because they only had WPA2. I had to enable WPA2/WPA3 to get it to work. That said mixed WPA2/WPA3 probably opens me up to the same risk as just plain WPA2...

 

[raven-au]

Be aware I have a GT-BE98 non-Pro router and I have three 4K Max sticks.
I ended up not using the GT-BE98 as the main router because it was too much of a problem, I used A ZenWiFi BQ16.

I had trouble when WiFi 7 was enabled on the main network and also when I created an MLO network in the guest network section below the main network section.

I created an additional network with the 6GHz wireless only, WPA3 was the default, that allowed the 4K Maxes to connect.
I wondered if they would select a sensible band if I added the 6GHz wireless band to my main network (btw I have removed the 2.4GHz band, only the 5GHz and 6GHz reamin) and they did, two sticks selected the 6GHz and the third one that's not in a ideal location select the 5GHz band.

When I enabled WiFi 7 on the above network the 4K Max would hang trying to connect, I can't remember what I saw when I had an MLO network defined but it had to go because it caused other problems.

Maybe the GT-BE98 Pro has a problem but things worked ok for me using the BQ16's.