Hey @TequilaSagara,

The 'phantom' network that you see is a part of the 6GHz backhaul as you suspected. There are firmware fixes on the way to hide the network, but there was actually a reason for its visibility according to our team - and your behaviors corroborate it. I would need to look up the conversation that I had, but essentially the presence of the phantom network as it stands allowed for devices and nodes to more quickly identify and transition between bands and encryption methods.

FYI I also believe that the wireless backhaul is maintained between Decos even if they are wired, this way they can fallback to their wireless connections if the wired connection fails.

I would also double check that you do not have any network settings on your phone or PC such as Private or Randomized Addressing enabled. 6GHz connections require WPA3 so one of these settings could cause the handshake between your network and device to happen more often than it needs to.