Just received my new Huawei HG659 in preparation for new Fibre install in the coming month and I was stumped to find out I couldn't use my old WiFi network's SSID in this new modem.

Apparently you can't have spaces or other "special characters"? This wouldn't normally bother me, except I was wanting to replicate the old SSID exactly, so that all my existing devices as well as friends/family's devices would auto reconnect without a hitch.

In the end, I was able to hijack the CSRF token from the web portal and submit a POST request to circumvent the client side validation. The result being, my new network now is now running completely fine with this supposedly "invalid" SSID, I just wasn't able to use their portal to get to this point.

Did this bother anyone else? Am I really not supposed to put spaces or other characters in my SSID's, or this just a silly unnecessary rule this modem seems to enforce?