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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by Svoka on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @10:34PM (#47069576)
Downgrading network to 2.4G is probably all they needed.
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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by degamad on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:50PM (#47070056)
I assume that's what

- Fall back to old IOT SSID with ancient protocols

meant 2.4G and not WPA3.

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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by rconti on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:00AM (#47070408)
Probably this- my IOT network forces 2.4GHz, whereas my WPA2 and WPA3 networks both use 2.4 and 5GHz on the same SSID.
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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:45PM (#47077420)
If a device only supports 2.4Ghz, wouldn't it only see the 2.4 option? Just having a network available that the device's radios can't even see shouldn't break anything. (I'm personally leaning towards WPA3 being the problem)
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