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Reusing Old Orbi System to Separate WPA3 and WPA2 Devices
Last year I upgraded to an Orbi RBR760 mesh system to replace my older RBR50, which was out of warranty and lacked WPA3 support. The old system still worked fine, so I didn’t want to discard it. ...
You can run two Orbi systems at the same time, however one thing to keep in mind and set on the Orbi systems, Keep the WiFi channels far appart between the two systems. On one of my systems, I set manual channesl 1 and 40, on the other Set 11 and 48.
Generally mixed mode WPA2/WPA3 should work for most older devices. Most of the bugs were worked out a couple of years ago. There maybe older wifi devices that don't like WPA3 being in the mix and there is nothing that NG can do about that. All that is up to the devices mfr to work that out, or not. I found that a few older NG routers in bridge mode will not connect to anything with WPA3 in the signal, even if WPA2 is present. Most older devices may not work well if WPA3 is on the signal. My xboxes work fine WPA is in mixed mode, however I generally keep my xbox consoles ethernet connected for best operation.