Illegal space in SSID on HG596b

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stevenz

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#173441 23-May-2015 15:16

For the past several years and with at least 4 different wireless units I've just had "The Internet" as my SSID. Unfortunately the new HG659b has decided that the space in the SSID is an illegal character and won't let me use it.

I know this is a very minor cosmetic issue, but is it possible to convince it otherwise or will I just have to suck it up?

@KnightNZ

cyberhub

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#1310442 23-May-2015 15:33

Can you get creative and use a - or a _ or can't you just use Internet?

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roobarb

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#1310443 23-May-2015 15:37

No, you won't be able to convince it that "The Internet" is your wireless LAN. It knows the real "The Internet" is on the WAN side of the router.

Having a space in a SSID is valid

Section 7.3.2.1 of the 802.11-2007 specification (http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2007.pdf) defines SSIDs.

A valid SSID is 0-32 octets with arbitrary contents. A 0-length SSID indicates the wildcard SSID (in probe request frames for instance).

There's no character set associated with the SSID - a 32-byte string of NUL-bytes is a valid SSID.

Some Wifi Access Points let you enter them in hex, so you could try entering in the HEX versions of "The Internet".

54686520496e7465726e6574

That might convince it of an alternative reality.

bagheera

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#1310448 23-May-2015 15:43

and try The%20Internet - that might work too

richms

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#1310469 23-May-2015 17:02

Yeah, the lack of character set being specified means that chinese SSIDs look like a mess on a PC not set to that.

IMO its inexcusable for things like that to not specify what character set they are in. Worse are chinese USB devices that just show as a bunch of rubbish in device manager on an english windows install.

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