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Re:Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi... by ikornaselur on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @06:01PM (#24217232)
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's a quality product that you provide (I'm assuming you're affiliated with this). I just don't remember the last time I had to give anyone access to my WiFi (everyone's just on mobile these days), and when it has been required it's usually for laptops (which couldn't use this.. Nor a QR code for that matter)

Maybe other people would find better use for this, but for the past years I've just set my WiFi password to something I remember and in the rare cases people want to connect, I just tell them the password.

The WiFi block looks nice though!

Re:Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi... by jgaudette on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @06:11PM (#24217347)
Thanks!!!

The most cases we find that the average people run into issues with mobile is in bad connection areas or when staying at one place for a while (staying over with friends or family, or at a party, etc).

A big use case as well is airbnb's and home rentals. One of the first things that you want when entering a rental is free wifi!

Thanks again for the feedback!

Re:Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi... by macNchz on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:03PM (#24217891)
Yeah I'd love if airbnbs had these. I tend to rent places in mountainy areas with bad cell service. It feels like 90% of the time we arrive bleary-eyed from a long drive, needing to look up a place to get dinner, only to find the welcome packet which has a handwritten password like "FJ#)@Jkfsf2JBbnNVnIOfQPOWre230F(&J%^". Minor annoyance, but a bother all the same. I always type it out in the Notes app first to make it easier to fix typos.
Re:Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi... by prepend on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:38AM (#24222178)
I’ve rented many an Airbnb where that long password is scratched out and it looks like a previous guest has written in “torpedo” or something much easier to type.

I guess the upside of default router passwords is that it allows friendly “hackers” to help.

Re:Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi... by ta17711771 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:12AM (#24223438)
Friendly hackers should know better than to leave a trivially crackable passphrase for an easily captured network.
Re:Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi... by prepend on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:36PM (#24231061)
It’s a cabin in the woods with free WiFi. The risk of someone cracking that is lower than the risk of someone breaking in and reading the password on the fridge.
Re:Show HN: The Wifi Block – Let your guests connect to WiFi... by ta17711771 on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:43AM (#24232048)
Missed that, good call!