Orbi WPA3 protocol

Nice find, David.  'The "will they/won't they" (upgrade existing stuff) question now boils down to how vendors view the priority of supporting existing products vs. pumping out new stuff.'

- this is exactly why I made my original post on this thread. Not because I lack knowledge about the topic by any means.  I have been working with wireless communication technologies in one form or another since I was a teenager in the mid 1980s.  I remember quite well when WEP (1997), WPA (2003), and WPA2(2011) were released - and how long it took for past changes to roll out to consumers.  I am watching propogration of this to the consumer closer than I did the release of Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum the 902-928 Mhz and 2.4Ghz bands when it was finally released to the public allowing me to talk about technology otherwise undiscussed due to the classified nature of any equipment I might have mentioned with it at the time. 

While there are clearly some dissatisfied customers in this forum voicing dismay here, I believe Netgear needs to hear what their customers apt to recommend their product to other consumers want - so they can plan accordingly.  This is not to imply that I think the customers complaining have valid grip about issues.  I have had only minor setup issues myself despite the 'you'll see soon' messages.  My presumption is NetGear has more one developer and uses code checkout so that only one or one team working in cohort can work on a segment at a time.  If that the case, I see no reason they could not if they want develop more than one part of it at a time.  However, I admit, while I have first hand knowledge of how other software companies handle this, I have no real knowledege about Netgears shop.  I presume it must be top notch to handle their product load at the quality I see.

Unless something has changed, it is not required to be certified to impliment the new standard. Stepping up the wireless backhaul would be a good method for Netgear to get their feet wet with it in test without pissing off the less tolerant consumers, if they make it an opt-in trial.  Having WPA3 on the backhaul will make the device still usable for me, even if the front end is not able to support it.  A good protion of my network is wired to the Orbi switches and using that backhaul.  And, no doubt, if Orbi does support it - I will stand up a separate older device to isolate traffic from those legacy devices that are not upgraded yet. to attatching with a different router for isolation on my network.