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henrik367
Follower
Feb 27, 2020

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...
Clibert's avatar
Clibert
Star
Mar 08, 2020
They can’t fix the issues it has doubt it ever gets it
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Christian_R
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 11, 2020

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's avatar
    gibfahn
    Initiate
    Aug 04, 2020

    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).

    • Clive61's avatar
      Clive61
      Aspirant
      Aug 17, 2020

      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

      • gibfahn's avatar
        gibfahn
        Initiate
        Aug 19, 2020

        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.