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donawalt
Aug 13, 2020Mentor - Experienced User
Anyone using WPA3 with Orbi RBR850?
Just because it's more secure, I decided to experiment on our home network with switching from WPA2 to WPA3. What I found in testing was that Apple laptops, iPhones, and iPads all connected fine. I h...
- Aug 13, 2020
I tired it in the early days. However Apply made my i phone 6sP unsupporting so I swapped back to WPA2 and AES.
If you have WPA3 supporting devices they should work. IF you don't have any WPA3 supporting devices, they will not work when the RBR is set to WPA3.
We are hoping that NG and the wifi security consortium will make a mixed WPA2 and WPA3 mode as to support both modes for better backwards compatibility. NG had the mode early on but found problems with it thus had to remove it. I don't know the status or progress of this.
FURRYe38
Aug 13, 2020Guru - Experienced User
I tired it in the early days. However Apply made my i phone 6sP unsupporting so I swapped back to WPA2 and AES.
If you have WPA3 supporting devices they should work. IF you don't have any WPA3 supporting devices, they will not work when the RBR is set to WPA3.
We are hoping that NG and the wifi security consortium will make a mixed WPA2 and WPA3 mode as to support both modes for better backwards compatibility. NG had the mode early on but found problems with it thus had to remove it. I don't know the status or progress of this.