Remain logged in in the admin UI?

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Two quick questions:&nbsp;1. The timeout for staying logged in in my new router is very short. Is there a way to increase it?&nbsp;2. I want a non-7-bit character (ö) in my guest network name. I found this https://alexplescan.com/posts/2016/08/16/emojify-your-wifi-netgear-r6300/ but it doesn't seem to work for me. Are there any other solution?&nbsp;Thank you.

labatt · Answer

Agree. As long as you use alpha neumeric characters for SSID passwords things should work. Yes there are documents out there that say these are all valid characters, by the standard. However, most vendors do not abide by them.&nbsp;

lagr · Answer

I am not. but ATM I am setting it up from scratch and that means that I have to google and readup quite a bit and everytime I return to the router I am kicked out.&nbsp;Furthermore, in the future, when there are FW upgrades, I am gonna repeat this and look up new functions and other changes.&nbsp;What is the advantage in my situation to be kicked out all the time? What does this policy remedy?

lagr · Answer

Yes, of course that is the motivation but it is not a very wellthought motivation. I would be much more concerned if someone accessed my Gmail or Facebook account than my router, and they both allow me to remain logged in for months (or years) at the time. Even this site allows that.

Christian_R · Answer

Hi lagr,

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Welcome to the community!&nbsp;

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1. This is by design and there is no way to increase the time logged into the admin UI.

2. We recommend that you use valid characters in the guest network name.&nbsp;

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Christian&nbsp;

lagr · Answer

That is a genuinely stupid design desicion. I live by myself and am the only user of this router. Exactly why should I have to login again and again when I want to administrate this router?

Why is a 8-bit character "not valid"? It works fine on my previous Airport.

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Remain logged in in the admin UI?

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