![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() WiFi Explorer Pro 3 comes with a 7-day free trial when you download it from our website ( ). WiFi Explorer uses the underlying macOS library for Wi-Fi scanning, so if Mac can’t see the network, WiFi Explorer won’t see it either. But maybe you have it turned off - in particular, I wonder if turning off "Smart Connect" and/or "Roaming assistant" would break it? AFAICT these neighbor reports are required by the 802.11k spec, which has been out for awhile, so it's hard to believe that ASUS doesn't support it at all. But it definitely requires that the access point be sending this information. It's not clear from what I read whether this mechanism constrains the SSID names to be the same on the different bands the neighbor reports could carry the SSID name as well as the channel number for the alternate BSSIDs. (This feels a bit baroque, but then again there is little about modern WiFi practice that doesn't.) So the plan is that 6GHz access points will also broadcast beacons in 2.4 and/or 5GHz bands, and those beacons will carry "neighbor reports" mentioning that they are also serving such-and-such a 6GHz channel, and 6GHz clients will look for those beacons rather than trying to scan the 6GHz channels directly. Apparently, there's so darn much 6GHz spectrum that people don't want to make devices scan that whole spectrum for WiFi beacons. after a bit of googling for "reduced neighbor report" I have a better idea of what might be going on. ![]()
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