High Association Failure Rates

[Wade_Carroll]

Hello!  

I'm receiving high association failure rates on 2 my 4 access points in a home network.  I'm currently sitting with line of sight (20') to a Meraki C9164AP that's directly connected to a MR75.   Speeds are good when connected but its discouraging to see such high failures.

Network
MX75 + 2 C9164APs

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MS120 + MR36H, MR78 APs

[cmr]

It looks like you are using WPA3 (as you need to for the 6GHz band to work), I have found that to be substantially less stable than WPA2 on the same AP and same endpoint.  Also remember that 6GHz signals travel about 10-20% less far than 5GHz.

[PhilipDAth]

That is also my experience.  If you want to use WPA3, put it on a seperate SSID.

There is poor device compatibility with WPA3 at this point in time.

[ww]

In case you have client balancing enabled in the wifi profile. Try turning it off 

[Wade_Carroll]

Thank you for your replies/recommendations.  I don't have Client load balancing on.  

I may try dropping the 6GHz radio but that's not nearly as much fun when running Speedtest, haha.

[Wade_Carroll]

I do have 802.11r enabled on WPA3.  Could this cause the high association rate fails on apple devices?

[cmr · Accepted solution]

@Wade_Carroll I'd turn it off, it is only really needed with 802.1x or similar authentication, simple psk should roam fine without it.