New router arrived on Friday. I was going to set it up over the weekend. By Saturday morning my 15 year old had it running, had named the network something I won't repeat here, and had made himself admin. I run an engineering org. Just now I asked my son for the password so my laptop could connect. He put me on the guest network. It expires at 11 pm.
As a security person I'm torn between pride and alarm. Did he at least change the default admin password? If yes, he's ahead of half the offices I've reviewed.
The guest network expiring at 11 is the best parenting move I've seen this year, and it was made by the teenager.
my 11 year old just renamed ours to 'no wifi for papa'. we didn't even buy a new router
Wait till he discovers parental controls work in both directions.
Now I need to know what the network is called.
Update from our house after reading this: my 10 year old asked me what 'admin' means. So it begins.
ours did the same with the tv. i still don't know how to get back to the normal channels
Keep going
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