Weak security ..(yep i know it has been covered lol but is slightly different)

[Theguru1]

Hi All,

Just renewed with EE and got the white router (the one with the small circle in the middle) and everything was fine..Then my wife connected to is and nothing works typical...cant stream...and my daughters friend connected to it and she couldnt get internet at all..strange as all other devices are fine...

My daughter has the same phone as the wife and she is fine..Iphone XR

So I looked settings being in IT i changed the Security to WPA - Auto from WPA2 - Auto and everything is fine now obviously it is saying weak security..because of the WPA..

Is anyway to fix this ? it is odd my daughter is fine but the wife wasn't. Tried the usual tricks reset etc.

Older routers you could change the cipher suite but on these you can't..as i understand..

Any ideas?

[XRaySpeX]

Generally set its WiFi security to:

Security	WPA

WPA Mode	WPA2
Cipher Suite	AES

[Theguru1]

Thanks for the reply but “cipher suite” isn’t in the wireless settings?? 

[Theguru1]

 Removed the password obviously lol

[XRaySpeX]

What are the other "Security Types" shown in the drop-down?

[Theguru1]

It’s WPA2,  WPA-Auto, None

[Theguru1]

Any ideas??

[XRaySpeX]

No, but I woulda thought that WPA2 would come with a suitable Cipher Suite, namely AES.

[Theguru1]

Yeah it is odd I looked through quite a lot of posts about a similar problem it isn’t present..bizarre

[miggle]

@XRaySpeX is right - WPA2 would use AES. I also believe AES is the standard  default cypher for WPA2 connections (has been on the routers and Ap's I've dealt with historically anyway). Would it be saying weak security because of the length / complexity of the WiFi password?