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Wi-Fi Password Sign
A printable sign so guests can get online without asking. Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere, and the network name and password print in a monospace face so nobody confuses a 1 with an l.
Four steps
How to make a Wi-Fi password sign
- 1
Use your guest network
Most routers offer one. It keeps visitors off the rest of your network.
- 2
Type the details
The password stays masked on screen unless you choose to show it.
- 3
Add a house note
Optional, for anything you want guests to know.
- 4
Print it
Then close the tab. Nothing is kept, so nothing is left behind.
- 5
Put it where guests look
Inside a cupboard door, on the fridge, or by the bed.
What this tool deliberately does not do
Every other generator on this site remembers your settings, so that coming back to it does not mean setting everything up again. This one does not remember anything, and that is a decision rather than an omission.
A Wi-Fi password stored in browser storage is readable by anything else running in that browser and by anyone else who uses the computer. On a family laptop, a work machine or a shared desktop in a holiday let office, that is a needless piece of exposure for the sake of saving you fifteen seconds of typing once. So: type it, print it, close the tab, and nothing is left behind.
There is also no server involved at any point. The site is a set of static files, the sign is drawn in your browser, and the PDF is produced on your own device. You can confirm it by disconnecting from the internet after the page loads: everything still works.
Use the guest network
Nearly every router sold in the last few years can run a second, separate guest network. It is worth the five minutes it takes to turn on:
- Visitors get the internet, not your network. A guest network does not reach your file shares, printers, cameras or anything else on the main one.
- You can change it freely. Changing the main password means reconnecting every device in the house. Changing the guest one costs nothing.
- You can turn it off. Which is convenient after a party, and after a let.
Why monospace
In most ordinary typefaces a capital I, a lower case l and the digit 1 are close to identical, and a capital O and a zero are worse. A guest typing a password from a printed sign has no context to disambiguate them, so they get it wrong, try again, and then ask you, which is the thing the sign existed to prevent. A monospace face distinguishes all of them, and it is the single detail that decides whether the sign actually saves anyone any time.
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