HOWTO: Make a Doctor Who “Bells of St John” Style WiFi Name ← Terence Eden's Blog
There are some limitations though. SSIDs can only have a maximum length of 32 byte . Those are usually interpreted as 8-bit characters, so if you're using multibyte Unicode characters, you're reliant on the device doing the scanning interpreting the SSID correctly. You also rely on the device you're trying to connect being able to display the characters.
I picked a Unicode string of " " but you, of course, can choose one which matches the TV show a little more closely - assuming you can find the right characters in the ever expanding Unicode set .
No spoilers, sweetie :-) This evening's Doctor Who - The Bells of St John - revolves around mysterious WiFi signals. Alien SSIDs which, if you connect to them.... well, watch... 73 Responses to “HOWTO: Make a Doctor Who "Bells of St John" Style WiFi Name” tcheu March 31st, 2013
I'm on windows 8 and have chrome friv 3 updated to the latest version. I can see all the symbols on the link you posted but for some reason my pc doesnt read it when its being broadcast by my android phone Reply codelion April 16th, 2013
It's because for the most part computer's aren't designed to handle unicode in the SSID. A ways back there was a "prank" where you would do the same thing and it would crash mac's like crazy because they would try to display the unprotected network's SSID then crash because they couldn't. friv 3 Ubuntu, friv 3 on the other hand, shows it just fine. Linux FTW Reply Great Intelligence March 31st, 2013
At first, I was thinking there was something wrong with my Ubuntu laptop. Unity, on a webpage not devoted to content about Linux and Ubuntu? But yes, there it is. Good Work, sir. Reply exogenetic March 31st, 2013
This is a great idea - especially good as April Fools' is just around the corner. The only problem I have is that my router translates the symbols into things like "┓", and won't allow other devices to see it while scanning for Wi-Fi networks, unless they're using a wired connection. any ideas on why this happens? Thanks! Reply Terence Eden March 31st, 2013
It really depends on which router you have. There's really no way we can help you unless you tell us Router Make and Model Software friv 3 Version If it's the latest version Reply exogenetic March 31st, 2013
I have a Belkin 54g router, with firmware (my router admin page only links to firmware?) version 7.00.23, which is the not the latest version - when I try to upgrade to 7.00.24, it doesn't do anything and stays at '.23. The only thing I'm particularly wondering about is why it won't let devices connect when you change the SSID, but if you could help with both that and changing friv 3 the SSID to symbols then you'd be a great help. Thank you! Reply vashta nerada March 31st, 2013
I have a Netgear WNAP320 with firmware version 2.1.1 When I try to enter the Unicode SSID it translates it into @ symbols and other characters. Is there any way of helping this? Thanks! friv 3 Reply winston smith March 31st, 2013
# nvram set wl_ssid=$(echo -e '\xe2\x94\x93\xe2\x94\x8f\xe2\x81\xa3\xe5\x87\xb5\xe2\x95\xb1\xe2\x8a\xbf\xe2\x94\x8c\xe2\x94\xac\xe2\x94\x90\x0a') # nvram get wl_ssid 凵 Reply Anavel Gato (@BL4CKSH7T) December 31st, 2013
I use a modem/router from Clear. The error message I'm getting is: "Some punctuations are not supported for Network Name (SSID). Please use characters or numbers." It doesn't look promising, but is there any way around it? Reply jtdhs2011 April 1st, 2013
You may need to upgrade to the latest firmware version. If that doesn't friv 3 work, you could try the Chinese version of the software - that should support Unicode. http://www.tenda.cn/tendacn/DownLoads/show.aspx?productid=381 Reply Greg Dean April 1st, 2013
nice. I have a crappy belkin and had to edit the web interface javascript to disable unicode checks using chrome. The validator function is "evaltF", in wireless_id.html which calls some stuff in "routine_data.js". friv 3 I replaced their custom "encodeURL" with javascript's encodeURI. No probs on the router end and devices that can read unicode see the proper result. Reply Discodoris April 1st, 2013
It wasn't actually figured out by nsurgnie, but by my partner - nsurgnie friv 3 is a friend of both of us (we don't have reddit accounts) He goes by the nickname of Poki and I by Discodoris (hence the protected wifi account that is actually connected). Reply I CLAVDIVS April 1st, 2013
Any suggestions on how to do this for a actiontec m1424 wr router? It just keeps telling me that "Service Set Identifier must consist of 1 to 32 characters and must not contain any special character." Reply Terence Eden April 1st, 2013
in friv 3 dd-wrt it's working fine, just use the wl ssid "......." command to set the wify name, don't touch the webinterface btw it doesn't seem putty understands the 256 bit ascii character set. ( if you paste
There are some limitations though. SSIDs can only have a maximum length of 32 byte . Those are usually interpreted as 8-bit characters, so if you're using multibyte Unicode characters, you're reliant on the device doing the scanning interpreting the SSID correctly. You also rely on the device you're trying to connect being able to display the characters.
I picked a Unicode string of " " but you, of course, can choose one which matches the TV show a little more closely - assuming you can find the right characters in the ever expanding Unicode set .
No spoilers, sweetie :-) This evening's Doctor Who - The Bells of St John - revolves around mysterious WiFi signals. Alien SSIDs which, if you connect to them.... well, watch... 73 Responses to “HOWTO: Make a Doctor Who "Bells of St John" Style WiFi Name” tcheu March 31st, 2013
I'm on windows 8 and have chrome friv 3 updated to the latest version. I can see all the symbols on the link you posted but for some reason my pc doesnt read it when its being broadcast by my android phone Reply codelion April 16th, 2013
It's because for the most part computer's aren't designed to handle unicode in the SSID. A ways back there was a "prank" where you would do the same thing and it would crash mac's like crazy because they would try to display the unprotected network's SSID then crash because they couldn't. friv 3 Ubuntu, friv 3 on the other hand, shows it just fine. Linux FTW Reply Great Intelligence March 31st, 2013
At first, I was thinking there was something wrong with my Ubuntu laptop. Unity, on a webpage not devoted to content about Linux and Ubuntu? But yes, there it is. Good Work, sir. Reply exogenetic March 31st, 2013
This is a great idea - especially good as April Fools' is just around the corner. The only problem I have is that my router translates the symbols into things like "┓", and won't allow other devices to see it while scanning for Wi-Fi networks, unless they're using a wired connection. any ideas on why this happens? Thanks! Reply Terence Eden March 31st, 2013
It really depends on which router you have. There's really no way we can help you unless you tell us Router Make and Model Software friv 3 Version If it's the latest version Reply exogenetic March 31st, 2013
I have a Belkin 54g router, with firmware (my router admin page only links to firmware?) version 7.00.23, which is the not the latest version - when I try to upgrade to 7.00.24, it doesn't do anything and stays at '.23. The only thing I'm particularly wondering about is why it won't let devices connect when you change the SSID, but if you could help with both that and changing friv 3 the SSID to symbols then you'd be a great help. Thank you! Reply vashta nerada March 31st, 2013
I have a Netgear WNAP320 with firmware version 2.1.1 When I try to enter the Unicode SSID it translates it into @ symbols and other characters. Is there any way of helping this? Thanks! friv 3 Reply winston smith March 31st, 2013
# nvram set wl_ssid=$(echo -e '\xe2\x94\x93\xe2\x94\x8f\xe2\x81\xa3\xe5\x87\xb5\xe2\x95\xb1\xe2\x8a\xbf\xe2\x94\x8c\xe2\x94\xac\xe2\x94\x90\x0a') # nvram get wl_ssid 凵 Reply Anavel Gato (@BL4CKSH7T) December 31st, 2013
I use a modem/router from Clear. The error message I'm getting is: "Some punctuations are not supported for Network Name (SSID). Please use characters or numbers." It doesn't look promising, but is there any way around it? Reply jtdhs2011 April 1st, 2013
You may need to upgrade to the latest firmware version. If that doesn't friv 3 work, you could try the Chinese version of the software - that should support Unicode. http://www.tenda.cn/tendacn/DownLoads/show.aspx?productid=381 Reply Greg Dean April 1st, 2013
nice. I have a crappy belkin and had to edit the web interface javascript to disable unicode checks using chrome. The validator function is "evaltF", in wireless_id.html which calls some stuff in "routine_data.js". friv 3 I replaced their custom "encodeURL" with javascript's encodeURI. No probs on the router end and devices that can read unicode see the proper result. Reply Discodoris April 1st, 2013
It wasn't actually figured out by nsurgnie, but by my partner - nsurgnie friv 3 is a friend of both of us (we don't have reddit accounts) He goes by the nickname of Poki and I by Discodoris (hence the protected wifi account that is actually connected). Reply I CLAVDIVS April 1st, 2013
Any suggestions on how to do this for a actiontec m1424 wr router? It just keeps telling me that "Service Set Identifier must consist of 1 to 32 characters and must not contain any special character." Reply Terence Eden April 1st, 2013
in friv 3 dd-wrt it's working fine, just use the wl ssid "......." command to set the wify name, don't touch the webinterface btw it doesn't seem putty understands the 256 bit ascii character set. ( if you paste
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