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Brink
New Contributor
2 years ago

Panoramic WI-Fi will not stay set to WPA3

Whenever I change the security setting for Wi-Fi 5 GHz to "WPA3-Personal Only", confirm, and save settings it acts like it was changed. However, when I check the status, it shows "WPA2-PSK (AES)" i...
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Darkatt
Honored Contributor

You will have to disable WPS to be able to set it to wpa3. WPS and wpa3 are mutually exclusive to one another. WPS requires wpa 1 or 2, so if you have it enabled it cannot save wpa3. 

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Bruce
Honored Contributor III
2 years ago

How do you know OP is using WPS?  If the Pano uses NFC for WPS, I can understand moving the client farther away.

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    Darkatt
    Honored Contributor
    2 years ago

    because WPS is on by default, it would have to be disabled for WPA3.

    • Bruce's avatar
      Bruce
      Honored Contributor III
      2 years ago

      I don't have the Pano.  I thought these had a button for WPS.  Does it require a PIN?  Always on doesn't appear to be secure.

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        Darkatt
        Honored Contributor
        2 years ago

        doesn't require pin, if you  get PODS, they connect using WPS only. Which means if you happen to use PODS, you cannot turn off WPS and you cannot use wpa3