I am unable to connect my SXT SA5 ac as a client station to my Netgear R7000 access point. I created a wireless, debug log rule and am seeing the below messages which indicate some type of issue with the beacon frame requirements from this AP while running both the latest stock and the latest dd-wrt firmware. Is there a change I can make to either the AP and/or station to allow them to connect with each other?

[MAC] on 5745
AP: yes
SSID [SID]
caps 0x1011
rates 0xOFDM: 6-54 BW:1x-4x SGI: 1x-4x HT:0-23 VHTMCS: SS1=0-9, SS2=0-9, SS3=0-9, SS4=0-7, SS5=0-7, SS6=0-7, SS7=0-7, SS8=0-7
basic 0xOFDM: 6, 12, 24 BW: 1x VHTMCS: SS1=0-7, SS2=0-7, SS3=0-7, SS4=0-7, SS5=0-7, SS6=0-7, SS7=0-7, SS8=0-7
MT: no
wlan1: [MAC] requires more rates than we support

Here is additional information from the 'wl' command on both firmwares showing only the basic/required rates of 6, 12, and 24:

**STOCK FIRMWARE**

# wl -i eth2 status
SSID: "[SSID]"
Mode: Managed RSSI: -83 dBm SNR: 0 dB noise: -92 dBm Flags: RSSI on-channel Channel: 149/80
BSSID: [MAC ADDRESS] Capability: ESS WEP RRM
Supported Rates: [ 6(b) 9 12(b) 18 24(b) 36 48 54 ]
RSN:
multicast cipher: AES-CCMP
unicast ciphers(1): AES-CCMP
AKM Suites(1): WPA-PSK
Capabilities(0x000c): No Pre-Auth, Pairwise, 16 PTK Replay Ctrs1 GTK Replay Ctr
VHT Capable:
Chanspec: 5GHz channel 155 80MHz (0xe09b)
Primary channel: 149
HT Capabilities: 40Mhz SGI20 SGI40
Supported MCS : [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ]
VHT Capabilities:
Supported VHT (tx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9
Supported VHT (rx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9

#
# wl -i eth2 rateset
[ 6(b) 9 12(b) 18 24(b) 36 48 54 ]
MCS SET : [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ]
VHT SET : 0x1 1x1 2x1 3x1 4x1 5x1 6x1 7x1 8x1 9x1
: 0x2 1x2 2x2 3x2 4x2 5x2 6x2 7x2 8x2 9x2
: 0x3 1x3 2x3 3x3 4x3 5x3 7x3 8x3 9x3

**KONGAC/DD-WRT FIRMWARE**

root@AP:~# wl -i eth2 status
SSID: "[SSID]"
Mode: Managed RSSI: 0 dBm SNR: 0 dB noise: -92 dBm Channel: 149/80
BSSID: [MAC ADDRESS] Capability: ESS RRM
Supported Rates: [ 6(b) 9 12(b) 18 24(b) 36 48 54 ]
VHT Capable:
Chanspec: 5GHz channel 155 80MHz (0xe09b)
Primary channel: 149
HT Capabilities:
Supported MCS : [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ]
VHT Capabilities:
Supported VHT (tx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9
Supported VHT (rx) Rates:
NSS: 1 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 2 MCS: 0-9
NSS: 3 MCS: 0-9

root@AP:~# wl -i eth2 rateset
[ 6(b) 9 12(b) 18 24(b) 36 48 54 ]
MCS SET : [ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ]
VHT SET : 0x1 1x1 2x1 3x1 4x1 5x1 6x1 7x1 8x1 9x1
: 0x2 1x2 2x2 3x2 4x2 5x2 6x2 7x2 8x2 9x2
: 0x3 1x3 2x3 3x3 4x3 5x3 7x3 8x3 9x3

Maybe you can try lower the HT Basic MCS on the Mikrotik AP? I think that should work.

I'm having the exact same problem... I've tried editing the supported/basic rates on my SXT and changing every setting I can think of. I can't seem to resolve this issue.

i think

if you are using default datarate and mcs configuration, maybe you need to find the solution on netgear side

I've tried changing all the settings available on the netgear router. It doesn't seem to have an effect. Phones and laptops connect fine to this router. I suspect the issue is on Mikrotiks end.

Thank you very much for letting us know about this issue!

Fix will be included in one of future RouterOS release such as 6.35rc14/6.35rc15.