@Carl 

I appreciate the fast response. Yes, I have noticed that when I'm in my office (farthest from the main unit), it switches the 6GHz signal to the kitchen unit which is closer to me and stays on the 6GHz signal. I still would like it to make the most of its 3 bands and "smartly" switch bands and access points as would best serve my device. If people want separate networks, then I guess you can give them the option, but I definitely want the option to have all 3 bands part of the same SSID. In regards to the 6E tech thing, I don't think that's the issue because it seems the Orbi Quadband router RBKE963 (with a $1500 price tag) can do either, have a single SSID for all bands or separate the 6GHz band into another SSID. I hope as you said its a software issue and not a technical limitation of the XE75 which is of course a more budget option :/

 

  @Carl So I understand your answers with regards to security and client device. But I would still argue that developers figured it out for routers and mesh systems that have 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz. Devices that aren't compatible with 5Ghz don't try to connect to it, so why would that be different for devices incompatible with WPA3. They can just stay on the 2.4 or 5 channel, right? And with the device band selection.. this is the problem I was already running into until shutting off my auto-reconnect to the main SSID and leaving it on for the 6Ghz band.

I am not saying these are not complicated problems to fix, they sound complicated. But mesh is supposed to be smart. The whole idea is to know which is the best router and band for every one of my devices to connect to at any given time, right? So this implementation of 6GHz feels half-baked. It offloads the problem of band selection onto the consumer who wants the ease-of-use.

New issue: TL;DR - Sticky 6GHz connection (doesn't want to change access points)
The other problem I'm running into after using the new routers for a while now is one of smart access point selection. In my upstairs office, I'm at the farthest point in the house from the main router connected to my modem. I'm in a 2-story townhome and I'm on the West side of the 2nd floor. The main unit is on the East side of the 1st floor. I have a 2nd and 3rd unit in the master bedroom on the east side of the 2nd floor and in the kitchen on the west side of the first floor (directly under me). My 6E phone seems to want to stay connected to the main unit longer than is good for it. It stays connected to the main unit with 2-3 bars of wifi (out of 4) and speeds cut to 1/3-1/2 of usual and when I'm on wifi calls I notice cutting out a little.

When I manually reset the wifi on my phone and let it reselect a unit to connect to, it almost always connects to the bedroom connection on the other side of the same floor I'm on.. Once I do that, I get 3-4 bars of wifi and around 2/3 the usual speeds and more stability. But it doesn't want to do this on its own, it seems to want to wait until I'm at like 1 bar of wifi signal (or maybe 2 bars more consistently, because it bounces around from 2-3) before it will change on its own. Its not working. And its making me want to switch either back to the old x68 or just not use the 6GHz band at all which negates the reason I spent more money for the newer device, you know?

I'm just starting to regret my purchase of the XE75 here and debating returning it to keep my x68 system which at least was more stable. I don't think this implementation of 6GHz is ready, but that's just 1 consumer's opinion based on my experiences. Maybe it'll work better for someone in a different home with 1 story or something, don't know.

This is standing in front of the main unit in the living room
(I pay for 600Mbps/20Mbps from Comcast)

These are 2 examples of speed/connection (check the wifi bars on the notification shade) in my office while still connected to the main unit because it doesn't want to switch automatically.

These are 2 examples of speed/connection from my office after I've reset the wifi on my phone and let it connect to the closer bedroom unit

The speeds aren't even the problem. its the inconsistent signal strength that affects a wifi call and whatnot :/

And then just for frame of reference.. here are 2 test in my office when i switch to the main 5GHz SSID instead of the 6GHz SSID

And it maintains a perfect 4 bars of signal the entire time.


The whole point of these tests for me is to just show that not only are there issues with the mesh system connecting my phone to different units around the house to improve signal strength.. but I would honestly be better served by a mesh system that can smartly take me off of the 6GHz connection when I'm in my office and furthest from the main unit. The 5GHz band would be as strong if not stronger with my max wifi speeds and the signal strength would be much stronger.

This is why to make a good 6E device, I believe you have to figure out the complications with the default security and device selection stuff. That to me is the point of mesh. Making me manually restart my wifi to connect to a different access point in the house or change back and forth between 2 SSID's is just a bad implementation of this tech. I can't get past that. And I hope I was not offensive in this long post, I'm just trying to express my frustration as a customer here, and I would love it if the tech could be improved in the future with software updates (which I realize takes time). In the meantime, I may just disable my 6GHz band for device use and leave it as a backhaul channel, which is disappointing.

And I think discontinuing sales of the 3pack of x68s at Costco was a little premature :/

  @Carl 

I would echo @@DecoUserTL on the ability to seamlessly transition. Seems only logical that as our devices mature, our network doesn't have to be chopped apart to take advantage of new features like 6E, but rather move easily based on signal strength.

  @Devast8 Yeah.. sadly.. I have since switched off my 6GHz band for use with devices (it was only my phone taking advantage). Its working a lot better now.. unfortunately without the functionality that I purchased it for. Its basically an x68 now with a slightly faster processor and 1 less internal antenna :/ And Costco stopped selling the 3-pack of the x68 a few weeks after this product came out.. so lose lose

  @DecoUserTL

Agree with you imo the deco should keep trying WPA3(6GHz) if the device is in range I have to keep turning on and off my wifi on the phone(Galaxy S22+) for it to see the 6GHz band first and connect to it.

I have the same SSID and password for all the bands 2.4/5/6GHz yet it refuses to automatically connect to the 6GHz when in range.

Also have latest updates for my XE75 and M5.

  @Darktron7 

I don't think it's a Samsung problem. The range of 6GHz signal is shorter in general, that's just how 6GHz works. The problem is that there are 2 SSIDs in the first place. Its the job of the smart mesh router to help devices select the best signal to use, you can't expect every single computer and phone and device that can use 6GHz signal in the future to have built in smart band selection protocols to get on the best signal. They just want to connect, the router is supposed to be smart and needs to do the picking for them.