Funny timing. Was helping my father in law troubleshoot his WiFi this weekend and came across this article.
All his wireless printers and his really old iPad (I think gen 1 or 2) refused to connect suddenly a couple weeks ago. No apparent changes or new devices on his network.
Turned out Comcast pushed an update to his wireless gateway that enabled ‘managed security functionality’. Part of this included forcing WPA3 security on all devices.
Once I figured out how to set it back to WPA2 for the 2.4 ghz network, all the old devices reconnected.
All his wireless printers and his really old iPad (I think gen 1 or 2) refused to connect suddenly a couple weeks ago. No apparent changes or new devices on his network.
Turned out Comcast pushed an update to his wireless gateway that enabled ‘managed security functionality’. Part of this included forcing WPA3 security on all devices.
Once I figured out how to set it back to WPA2 for the 2.4 ghz network, all the old devices reconnected.
Good times :)