R8000 Wifi, a lot of devices can't connect to Wifi

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Hey
This is my 1st message on the forum and 1st Openwrt install on a Netgear R8000, I've used the oem firmware for few months no problem detected except an boring lags with games, installed Ddwrt for few days everything works well except some Wifi issues, all devices disconnect at the same time (over 20 IoT mcus)
So I moved to Openwrt and noticed almost the same issue with Wifi but this time : Some devices can't connect to my two Wifi networks, radio 1,2,3 am i missing something ?
To sum R8000 wifi is weird with ddwrt and Openwrt

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SSH in to the router and run cat /etc/config/wireless.

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config wifi-device 'radio0'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '18000000.axi/bcma0:7/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
        option channel '149'
        option band '5g'
        option htmode 'VHT80'
        option country 'US'
        option cell_density '3'
        option disabled '1'

config wifi-device 'radio1'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '18000000.axi/bcma0:8/pci0001:00/0001:00:00.0/0001:01:00.0/0001:02:01.0/0001:03:00.0'
        option band '2g'
        option channel 'auto'
        option legacy_rates '1'
        option cell_density '0'
        option htmode 'HT20'
        option country 'FR'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
        option device 'radio1'
        option network 'lan'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid 'Bunker'
        option hidden '1'
        option key '***'
        option encryption 'psk2'

config wifi-device 'radio2'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '18000000.axi/bcma0:8/pci0001:00/0001:00:00.0/0001:01:00.0/0001:02:02.0/0001:04:00.0'
        option band '5g'
        option htmode 'VHT80'
        option cell_density '0'
        option channel '144'
        option country 'US'
        option disabled '1'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio2'
        option device 'radio2'
        option network 'lan'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid 'Bunerkac'
        option encryption 'sae-mixed'
        option key '***'
        option disabled '1'

config wifi-iface 'wifinet2'
        option device 'radio0'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid 'Bunkeraac'
        option encryption 'none'
        option disabled '1'

I noticed also a lot of "disassociated" after "associated" like here

Sun Apr 17 21:38:19 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA ac:67:b2:37:79:xx IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Sun Apr 17 21:38:20 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA ec:fa:bc:28:5a:xx IEEE 802.11: associated
Sun Apr 17 21:38:24 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA ec:fa:bc:28:5a:xx IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Sun Apr 17 21:38:24 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA ec:fa:bc:28:5a:xx IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Sun Apr 17 21:38:26 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA ec:fa:bc:28:5a:xx IEEE 802.11: disassociated
Sun Apr 17 21:38:26 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA ec:fa:bc:28:5a:xx IEEE 802.11: associated
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Channel 144 is a DFS (radar) channel, and should be avoided.

Use either channels 36 to 48, or 149 to 161.

I noticed you have 'US' on this, and 'FR' on another.

Use the correct country code for all.

Get a WiFi analyzer app to help you find out who is using what channels in your area, your signal strength, and your signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).

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I've turned of both Ac radios, I'm focusing on b/g/n radio, right now I can't connect with my phone but the tableat is connected to wifi, some Iot devices also can't connect, it's like there is a maximum number of connected devices to the radio

config wifi-device 'radio0'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '18000000.axi/bcma0:7/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
        option channel '149'
        option band '5g'
        option country 'US'
        option cell_density '3'
        option disabled '1'
        option txpower '20'
        option htmode 'VHT40'

config wifi-device 'radio1'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '18000000.axi/bcma0:8/pci0001:00/0001:00:00.0/0001:01:00.0/0                                                                                                                                                             001:02:01.0/0001:03:00.0'
        option band '2g'
        option txpower '20'
        option country 'US'
        option cell_density '0'
        option channel 'auto'

config wifi-device 'radio2'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '18000000.axi/bcma0:8/pci0001:00/0001:00:00.0/0001:01:00.0/0                                                                                                                                                             001:02:02.0/0001:04:00.0'
        option band '5g'
        option htmode 'VHT80'
        option cell_density '0'
        option channel '144'
        option country 'US'
        option disabled '1'

config wifi-iface 'wifinet3'
        option device 'radio1'
        option mode 'ap'
        option encryption 'psk-mixed'
        option key 'XxX'
        option ssid 'Bunker'
        option hidden '1'
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Reminder: radio0 is still set to channel 149 (DFS channel)

Some clients can't connect using mixed mode.

Try WPA2-PSK with AES instead.

If you have clients that do support mixed mode, set up a separate guest WiFi network for just those devices.

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radio0 is off I'm only using Radio1, Changed to 'psk2+ccmp' same issue :confused: