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henrik367
Feb 27, 2020Follower
RAX80 support for WPA3
When will the RAX80 get WPA3 support? It has been said from the start that the router should support wpa3 at a later date, but I'm starting to doubt. The competing router from Asus, RT-AX88U, got W...
Christian_R
Mar 11, 2020NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi henrik367,
We currently do not have an ETA or any further details on when the RAX80 should support WPA3. We'll provide an update as soon as we can.
Regards,
Christian
gibfahn
Aug 04, 2020Initiate
Looks like WPA3-Personal has shipped, I just enabled it today on my RAX-80, I'm currently on Firmware Version V1.0.3.98_1.0.46 (didn't actively update it).
- Clive61Aug 17, 2020Aspirant
My new nighthawk has WPA3 option. And it either fails to connect to my iPhone or iPad. I have had to reset it back to wpa2.
the product loaded an update when first installing- gibfahnAug 19, 2020Initiate
Yeah I found that older devices in my house didn't yet have WPA3 support (iPhone worked, OnePlus 5T didn't).
I ended up splitting the 2.4GHz and 5.0Ghz bands and doing:
2.4 GHz: WPA2-Personal[AES] + WPA3-Personal
5.0 GHz: WPA3-Personal
I had an issue with it a few weeks ago, but I restarted the router and everything has been good otherwise.
- Clive61Aug 19, 2020AspirantYes I tried splitting the bands. It took longer to drop the connections but still dropped the wpa3. Although it worked on the guest g5.
Also tried to reboot and restore.
Yesterday was the final straw. When even after multiple restarts it said that there were 5 devices on it that had been turned off or gone to work with people.
I’m afraid I am returning it. It’s not cheap and I don’t need the hassle.
But thanks