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Connections to older WAPS fail after adding wifi6 capable AP

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Pootle42

2023-04-17 08:05:16

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Connections to older WAPS fail after adding wifi6 capable AP

2023-04-17 08:05:16

Model: EAP653

Hardware Version: V1

Firmware Version: 1.0.4

I replaced 1 (of 3 EAP225 controllers with an EAP625, I wanted the extra bandwidth when moving large amounts of data between laptop and NAS.

The setup is a single site / default group with 3 SSIDs in use and all SSIDs were tagged to use 2.4 and 5Ghz.

I can no longer connect to the EAP225s on 5Ghz from Windows, Fedora or Android phone.

Devices appear to authenticate with the WAP (SSID), but DHCP appears to fail and eventually devices fail over to a 2.5G only SSID

I have a clunky workaround:

setup a new SSID and set it to 2.5Ghz only, using this SSID everything connects to any WAP OK - but obviously bandwidth is fairly limited.

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Philbert

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2023-04-17 19:53:32

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Re:Connections to older WAPS fail after adding wifi6 capable AP

2023-04-17 19:53:32

@Pootle42

Are you managing the EAPs via a controller (OC200/300 or Software), or have you set the EAPs up in standalone mode?

If standalone, this could be the WPA3 security setting on the new AP. You would need to downgrade this to WPA2 to match the other APs, else it wont fully authenticate correctly.

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