Replacing WPA2 with WPA3 in the office without breaking half the fleet.
WPA3 is stronger, especially against offline password cracking, and is required on 6 GHz Wi-Fi. The pain is not the APs, it is older clients: printers, IoT, some Android 8 phones and cheap IP cameras only speak WPA2. So most rollouts run WPA2/WPA3 transitional, not pure WPA3.
Try this first
- 1List devices that will not upgrade, scanners, old printers, badge systems. They move to a dedicated IoT SSID on WPA2.
- 2Set the main SSID to WPA3-Personal-Transition (also called WPA2/3) so modern clients pick WPA3 and old ones still work.
- 3Set PMF (Protected Management Frames) to required for WPA3 and optional for the IoT SSID.
- 4Pilot on a separate test SSID first, some laptop drivers (older Intel AX200 firmware) have WPA3 bugs, fix with driver updates.
- 5After a few weeks of transitional, review the client list. Anything still on WPA2 is your IoT VLAN inventory.
When to bring us in
You handle patient data, payments or fall under NIS2: WPA3-Enterprise with RADIUS is the end state, not WPA3-Personal. Plan that as a separate track.
See also
- Wi-Fi drops randomly across the officeFirst rule out whether it is the access points or the internet connection itself. Different fix.
- One room or corner has no or bad Wi-FiNot always "add another AP"; often one is poorly positioned, or there is a metal wall in the way.
- Internet is suddenly slow for everyoneThree suspects: your provider, a colleague soaking the line, or a backup or update kicking in unexpectedly.
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