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Very good so far with one odd/annoying quirk during setup

I don't have a home internet provider. I live alone, why pay for internet twice. Instead I use this as a WISP router, which connects to my unlimited internet phone and provides my various devices at home with internet. I previously used a different WISP router (BTW not every router is WISP capable, make sure to double check), which was very good, but was 2ghz only. I also live in an apartment building that's getting pretty congested on 2ghz, which I think was causing me some issues. So I mostly got this for the 5ghz, which is what I'm using now, and I've had zero of the weird connection (or range) issues I was having using 2ghz since going to this. It behaves the way I want it to, in that when I get home, it sees that I'm home (e.g. continuously polls for it's uplink) and connects to my phone and my devices come alive (believe or not there are devices where this is not the case, I've tried them [have to be rebooted to poll for uplink]). After setup, I've had zero trouble so far.

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But during the setup process, there was one quirk that really chapped me (thus why 4 stars instead of 5). They're using complex password rules for the SSID!!! Between work and home I've used MANY routers, and this is the literal first time I've come across this. Now, my password wasn't simple, BUT, it was only 8 characters. And their requirement? 10. How arbitrary. This meant that, even though I made my SSID the same as the previous router, it wasn't possible to make it the same password. And that meant all of my devices that were pointing to that SSID already... had to be reconfigured. And that was a complete (and should have been unnecessary) pain in the rear. I did it, but it took me several days. I plan on sending a strongly worded letter to the company. Make it an option at least. You know, an "enforce complex SSIDs" checkbox. Done.

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