I’m seeing it too, I have a little esp32 and it works fine on the second and third floors but not on the first floor. Here’s a clue:
I built it on the third floor which has an access point that broadcasts a unique SSID on the 5ghz channel and a ssid (let’s call it “foo”) on the 2.4ghz. On the bottom floor is my main wireless router which has the same SSID (foo) as well. Most devices connect to the best one, but I wonder if the ESP32 can’t.
Thus if it’s in range of the top floor one it hooks up, but when it’s on the bottom floor it tries to associate with the lower level SSID of the same name and goes bonkers. Something people may want to look into…
Minor update: I tried turning the top floor SSID off, then reconfiguring the lower floor router’s configuration with allow TKIP+AES (normally I only support AES), and even allowing WPA/PSK as well as WPA2-PSK. Still no connection. Weird.
Final update: Yep, it works fine back here on the top floor associating to a Netgear PLW1000 hub. It will not associate to the Netgear NightHawk running DD-WRT downstairs. One of these days I will figure out why, but for the moment I have other stuff to do. If you find this helpful let me know 