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Milkysunshine
Oct 14, 2023Tutor
Insufficient passphrase length. It should be a minimum of 8 characters long.
I'm trying to simply disable SSID separation on my Wireless 1, and it give that error even though the password is 9 characters. I've tried on 3 different browsers and 2 different devices. It ha...
Milkysunshine
Oct 14, 2023Tutor
I tried setting a random 16 char password temporarily, but that didn't work either. I'm guessing it is trying to check the password length of the 5g password form on the page, which gets removed when you disable separation, so it throws the too short error.
Workaround:
Disable password while disabling split SSID,
Re-enable password after reboot.
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