{"id":3602,"date":"2012-01-07T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T22:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2012-01-07T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T22:10:41","slug":"wireless-network-info-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2012\/01\/07\/wireless-network-info-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Network Info Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like any good geek, I locked down my wireless network a bit after I set it up. I&#8217;m running <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IEEE_802.11i-2004\">WPA2<\/a>, and the password\/key was generated with <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.man-online.org\/man1\/pwqgen\/\">pwqgen<\/a>, for something sufficiently secure but semi-memorable. I disabled SSID broadcast. My router automatically generated a weird name, which I presume to be two random dictionary words mashed together. More for congestion-avoidance than security, I also run the router on 5 GHz instead of 2.4 GHz, which limits me to 802.11a and 802.11n. This seems to work with most everything (except for my HTC Inspire cell phone).<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that when people come over, it&#8217;s really tiring to hand them a sheet with the network name and password\/key on it, and still have to explain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>My network isn&#8217;t any of the ones that pop up on your wireless device, because I turned SSID Broadcast off. You have to manually add it.<\/li>\n    <li>It&#8217;s WPA2, not WEP. It&#8217;s also Personal, not Enterprise, so there&#8217;s no username prompt.<\/li>\n    <li>The name is weird, because it was auto-generated. Stop asking what it means; it means nothing.<\/li>\n    <li>It&#8217;s only on 5 GHz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I decided I wanted something more than a sheet of notebook paper, but also something that people could &#8220;get&#8221; pretty quickly. I grabbed a photo of the iOS network setup, guessed that Helvetica Neue was a close-enough match for the font, and did a little Photoshop manipulation, ending up with this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogscdn.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2012\/01\/NetConf-template-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3603\" title=\"iOS-style Network Config Card\" src=\"http:\/\/blogscdn.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2012\/01\/NetConf-template-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(These values are randomized and not my actual credentials.)<\/p>\n<p>My plan (once I get my printer set up and working) is to print a couple copies of this on thick cardstock like an index card and keep them handy for when guests want to use my network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogscdn.n1zyy.com\/random-content\/NetConf-template.psd\">Photoshop template here<\/a> [720KB, .psd], if you&#8217;d like.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like any good geek, I locked down my wireless network a bit after I set it up. I&#8217;m running WPA2, and the password\/key was generated with pwqgen, for something sufficiently secure but semi-memorable. I disabled SSID broadcast. My router automatically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2012\/01\/07\/wireless-network-info-card\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}