• mommykink@lemmy.world
    604·
    10 months ago

    If someone tells me their wifi password is still the default password, I automatically think less of them

    • Gork@lemm.ee
      47·
      10 months ago

      This is why I change mine to something difficult to comprehend yet still legible.

      Something like:

      “FOURWORDSALLLOWERCASE”, one word, all uppercase.

    • devbo@lemmy.world
      115·
      10 months ago

      as a satilite software engineer. your just an asshole. smart and better protected, but thinking less of people due to something so silly makes you asshole.

      • saigot@lemmy.ca
        1·
        10 months ago

        It’s one of those things that makes life for you and anyone using your wifi way easier and all it takes is 30s and a Google search if you aren’t the most tech literate. It’s like not putting your cart away at the grocery store, it’s not a big thing but it’s annoying and impolite.

        • frezik@midwest.social
          11·
          10 months ago

          You can leave the password blank. Though that does mean anyone driving by your house might have their phone or whatever automatically connect to it. A few devices also don’t seem to like blank passwords (I think the Wii refused to connect that way).

          A simple password is fine. Keeps completely random people out, and devices will connect OK. Edge-based security is flawed, anyway.

    • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
      3·
      10 months ago

      Since manufacturers are getting more pushed into getting rid of default passwords and including random generated ones this is thankfully getting less and less of an issue.

  • unknown@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    10 months ago

    Take a deep breath and look for the text that follows “password:” Self defeat is sell fufilling! Think of it as ASCII wheres Wally.

  • Nommer@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    10 months ago

    I don’t think I could ever go back to an off the shelf router anymore. Years ago I set up a pc with pfsense, hooked that up to a switch for my wired devices plus one to the wireless access point I bought from ubiquiti. Almost zero issues after setting it up, plus it’s much more flexible in that if my wireless dies, my wired devices still work. Or a component in the PC dies, I can just replace the part instead of the whole router. Takes some networking knowledge but really nothing you can’t learn from googling.

    • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
      41·
      10 months ago

      … with every replaced part and yearly power consumption costing as much as a new conventional low-power router? If the only thing it does is routing packets and you don’t run any heavy services on it, there are low-power, compact and cheap openwrt routers out there.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I get the point of the meme, but can I just say I hate routers that give you a default password other than admin or password. Like I get the point of it is to prevent the device from being insecure when the user doesn’t put a password on it. However after a while the back of the router becomes basically unreadable and when you go online and search default admin password for x and their support page says that the password is different per router it’s a little ridiculous. It is a much better approach to just force the password to be changed when you do the initial setup that way you can forget the admin password and factory reset it and still be able to access it where with current day routers if you reset it and you don’t have that little piece of plastic on the back that says the admin password you’re more or less SOL

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Mines behind our printer, it gets covered in dust and the adhesive on the sticker is starting to fail lol, thankfully it’s not one that does that though so I’m not too worried.

  • Octopus1348@lemy.lol
    3·
    10 months ago

    I can find where the password is, it’s just the default password handwritten like the title text.