Arduino Nano IoT is not connecting to WPA2-Enterprise encrypted Wifi

Official Hardware Nano Family Nano 33 IoT
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Im trying to connect my Arduino Nano IoT to my university Wifi and failed with the following on my serial monitor

"Attempting to connect to WPA SSID: XXX

When I run a network scan the Wifi (XXX) shows up in the serial monitor as well.

As I inquired why it is unable to connect, this is the reply I got from the university IT department.
"Connecting to XXX requires the device to support WPA2-Enterprise encryption for security reasons. Unfortunately there is no exceptions to this rule."

This board connects, without a problem to my home wifi and hot spots on both iPhone and Android, which I believe a different level of encryption.

This is the code Im using to connect to university Wifi
on Github

and this is the project
https://dronebotworkshop.com/soil-moisture/

This is the board Im usinghttps://www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/Arduino/ABX00032?qs=PzGy0jfpSMvMMiAhbligzQ%3D%3D&countryCode=CA&currencyCode=CAD

  1. Does Nano IoT support WPA2-Enterprise encryption?
  2. If supported, why isn't it connecting and what am I doing wrong?
  3. If not supported, what is the board I should try that supports the required level of encryption?

Im a newbie in Arduino and this is my first project, please bare with me. :grinning:

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I can't add anything to russel's answer, but my nano 33IOT connects to my home wifi with a WPA2-AES encryption.

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Thanks for sharing the information. How about ESP32? Does it have any issues with connecting?

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Yes same here. It connects with home Wifi, but not on the university Wifi.

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Hi there

I have been trying different things with my nano iot 33 and I have found with our net work Unifi Access points the Unifi system is optomised to move devices from 2.4 GHz to 5 GH they can be configued to remove this optpomization but this has not worked for me. Instead I make a separate SSID which only has 2,4GHz and the my Nano IOT 33 and mkr 10101 devices work perfectly and connect as expected.

I believe this is some thing Arduino need to address as 2.4 GHz is becoming outdated. I fail to see why micro processors don't use 5GHz
when isit is becoming the standard

so you have several options

Talk to Arduino support or ESP support
Ask the uiniversity to create a 2.4 GHz only SSID in your labs bring a WIFI Hot spot which connects to your university wifi but creates a 2.4GHz hot spot for you

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You can try adding the wifi parameters via "thingsProperties.h", check Configure a device for a network that doesn't use all the parameters in IoT Cloud

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