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lagr
Jan 14, 2020Guide
Remain logged in in the admin UI?
Two quick questions: 1. The timeout for staying logged in in my new router is very short. Is there a way to increase it? 2. I want a non-7-bit character (ö) in my guest network name. I found ...
Christian_R
Jan 15, 2020NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi lagr,
Welcome to the community!
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.
Christian
labatt
Jan 16, 2020Mentor
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.