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dwilson

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#223202 19-Sep-2017 06:11
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I have a couple of hobbies that lead to various groups of people gathering at my house on a regular basis. Our groups have had many people come and go over the years, some people only come for 2-3 weeks.

 

The problem I've always had is ensuring that with a lot of people using my wifi on and off over the years I want to make sure I update the network keys regularly. I enable and disable the guest network before and after each session. Until now I have been changing my guest wifi network keys on a weekly basis and re-printing the QR codes (2.4GHz and 5GHz) each week. The printed codes I can then pin on my wall and people can scan and join as they walk in the door.

 

I am getting sick of printing out QR codes and using oodles of paper though.

 

So I thought, what if I update QR codes each week, save them digitally and then dump them into a public folder. I could have a single static link that would display the network QR. I could then single print the website URL QR and have that permanently on the wall. They walk in the door and scan the same QR code but it displays a new image each week.

 

The problem is, the person can scan the QR code off the wall, be directed to a QR image ... and then what? They can't scan it because it's on their phone. 

 

How do I make it easy for them to join my guest network?


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  #1868357 19-Sep-2017 08:19
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On a serious note, instead of printing out the QR code, display the image itself on a spare tablet or older phone.

 

     

  1. No hosting it in the public cloud
  2. Easy enough to open a new image on the device
  3. Portable to move around
  4. No more paper
  5. ...
  6. Profit?

 

Alternatively, simply use an open network. It's a separate "guest" network and you enable / disable it for each gathering. As you disable it afterwards, there is less of a security risk in having an open network. If you are concerned, grab a wi-fi scanner app from the Play store and test your signal while in the neighbours yard. If you can detect it, decrease the power.

 

 





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