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ORBI & WPA3 firmware - 2019/Aug update.
Ifaik, it's been over a year since any comments on this subject in the forum - and the WPA3 (personal) procol was certified in early 2018. But I can find no reference to any relevant Firmware update for the Orbi Router gear from Netgear (which are not dated, unfortunately).
So I don't know why the topics/threads have been marked "solved/closed"! - Is anyone able to provide an update reference WPA3 security on the Orbi ecosystem? Is this active/live yet? Thx.
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The WPA3 web site shows only one Netgear home WiFi product as WPA3 "certified" (RAX120). (Also, one D-Link, zero Linksys, zero TP-Link.)
https://www.wi-fi.org/product-finder-results?certifications=32&items=30
Sometimes I am frustrated by the gap between industry announcements and the real world. 5G phone networks, for example, require not only on the 5G network, but also completely new phones. I wonder how firms like Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, Samsung, Google, etc. are doing with WPA3 authentication on their products. I haven't read much, but my guess is that WPA3 is somehow "backward compatible" with WPA2 so that switching a router from WPA2 to WPA3 doesn't suddenly make every older device stop connecting.
