> SSID is send with the lowest rate (1Mbit) and with the most solid encoding - usally the transmit power and antenna sensitivity is also the strongest on the lo

> SSID is send with the lowest rate (1Mbit) and with the most solid encoding - usally the transmit power and antenna sensitivity is also the strongest on the lowest rate so the SSID can be seen quite far away - often so far away that your clients wifi is able to receive the SSID beacons but unable to send something back that reaches the router. Thats what I mean. It would be great if you could click "debug", and it says "Receiving beacons from router, but router is not responding to frames". Maybe it would even be smart enough to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation if details about the router are known, e.g. router transmits with X watt, the recieved signal strength is Y. I can transmit with Z watt, so the router should / should not be able to hear me. Then it could suggest "You have to move closer to the router, use a better antenna, or increase power to the antenna (reduces battery life)". Nowadays you don't get anything, not even an error message. It silently stops connecting on most platforms, and the WiFi symbol slightly changes.