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Q: Authentication Method & Protected Management Frames

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IAAI

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First, if you set your router to to automatically chose between these two WPA2/WPA3 does this mean it's up for the client to chose one of them or is it going for WPA3 first and what could happen if I set it to WPA3 only ?

Secondly, could someone explain what is Protected Management Frames and what the difference between capable and required mean please ?
 
https://www.wi-fi.org/knowledge-center/faq/what-are-protected-management-frames

PMF should be set to capable when clients with varying abilities are required on the same network and required when you only have PMF capable clients.

With the WPA2/WPA3 set, you should choose (as always) the highest level of security the client device allows. The router doesn't choose. You should. :)

If you set it to WPA3 only, then no WEP or WPA2 client will be able to connect (pretty straightforward).

HTH. :)
 

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