Question wpa3 and phone / computers

[PolicyNo7864]

i have wifi in my home but it seems to fall out now and then. especially on my phone where it keeps requireing wpa3 connection and disconects. one should think that a two year old samsung phone would have this protocall but no. does anyone have experience with wpa3 and phones not keeping a stable connection? or wpa3 and networks in general.

 

[kanewolf]

i have wifi in my home but it seems to fall out now and then. especially on my phone where it keeps requireing wpa3 connection and disconects. one should think that a two year old samsung phone would have this protocall but no. does anyone have experience with wpa3 and phones not keeping a stable connection? or wpa3 and networks in general.

I haven't found the benefits of WPA3 to be worthwhile. There are too many devices that are incompatible.

 

[bill001g]

I am not so sure wpa3 is going to make much difference in stability. In home use it generally does not change the encryption itself unless you force it. Many wpa2 already uses 128 bit keys. Enterprise mode uses 192 bit encryption.

What is different is what most people would call the login. In WPA2 it uses the standard preshared key WPA3 uses a different method of authentication. All that is done during these steps is to get the unique encryption keys that is actually used to encrypt the data. It is only a handful of messages that are exchanged when the session is first started. After this is done the encryption stuff is pretty much the same AES stuff it has been for years.

You should be able to force it to WPA2 in your router to test if it really is related to WPA3.

I am unclear if WPA3 is actually required but it might be on the 6ghz radio band.

My guess would be this is more of the standard wifi interference issue. I would try to change the channels and see if it makes any difference.