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." The latter I assume is WRONG, as it is asking for 64-bit number _represented_ in base 16 (which makes it 64 bits / 4 bits-per-hex digit = 16 hex digits).

Aaaaaaanyway, so, nothing I enter is accepted:

"a" -- No.

"a123b123" -- No.

"t1234567" -- No.

"Test1234" -- No, and I've attached a picture of this.

64-bit number in base 16 --No.

So, my question is, what is one supposed to put in the field for a guest network password?

See the attached picture--I get this "error message" for any string I put into the password field.

Modem firmware, V1.0.9.18_1.2.27.

TheEther
Jan 07, 2018
Did you set up passwords for both guest networks (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)?

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TheEther
Guru
Jan 07, 2018
Did you set up passwords for both guest networks (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)?
- 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.
- ns8
  Tutor
  Jan 07, 2018
  A-ha!
  
  So the frame scroll bar on the right didn't show up. Not sure if this is because of Safari or MacOS, or the webserver on the router, but after I started to TRY to scroll up, then the scroll bar appeared.
  
  You can see it missing in the image I attached in the thread opener. So I'll try that.

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