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ns8
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Jan 07, 2018
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Guest network password--nothing works

Hi Netgear!   I'm trying to enable my guest network. Nothing I enter into the password field is accepted as a password and I get the message telling me about the "8 to 63 ASCII or 64 hex digits." T...
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    TheEther
    Jan 07, 2018
    Did you set up passwords for both guest networks (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)?
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TheEther
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Jan 07, 2018
Did you set up passwords for both guest networks (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)?
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ns8
Tutor
Jan 07, 2018

Yeah, that worked.


FWIW, there is so much horizontal space waster. Both 2.4 and 5 options can be had in two columns and the frame would be 1/2 the vertical length.