Raspberry Pi 3B+ AC WiFi unable to use 80mhz channels

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, linux, raspberry-pi

Research direction

Reproduce the issue using the listed Raspberry Pi 3B+, Raspbian release, kernel version, and NL regulatory domain through raspi-config or wpa_supplicant.conf. Compare the 5 GHz connection behavior with the US domain, then trace the kernel wireless regulatory handling; done means the NL configuration permits the expected 80 MHz connection.

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Description

Wifi Issue

Describe the bug
The Raspberry Pi is unable to sync with 80mhz channels to my AC WiFi access point when I set my regulatory domain to NL. It is able to do so whenever I utilize the US domain. The NL domain does and should support 80mhz channels. More people seem to experience this issue as is evident here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=208384

To reproduce

  1. Fresh boot of Raspbian
  2. Set the regulatory domain to NL via raspi-config or wpa_supplicant.conf
  3. Connect to 5 Ghz WiFi

Expected behaviour
Connects with 80mhz channel at 433 Mbit physical link speed

Actual behaviour
Connects with 40mhz channel at 200 Mbit physical link speed

System
Copy and paste the results of the raspinfo command in to this section. Alternatively, copy and paste a pastebin link, or add answers to the following questions:

  • Which model of Raspberry Pi? e.g. Pi3B+, PiZeroW
    Pi3B+
  • Which OS and version (cat /etc/rpi-issue)?
    Raspberry Pi reference 2018-11-13
    Generated using pi-gen, https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen, 7e0c786c641ba15990b5662f092c106beed40c9f, stage4
  • Which firmware version (vcgencmd version)?
    Feb 12 2019 19:42:42
    Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
    version 8eff5e4023657a8b3b59e1f90dc966f62d74908c (clean) (release) (start)
  • Which kernel version (uname -a)?
    Linux raspberrypi 4.14.98-v7+ #1200 SMP Tue Feb 12 20:27:48 GMT 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
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