How to connect to wifi without password

Did you know you can connect to wifi without password? Curious Internet users have certainly seen a button with the abbreviations on their home router WPS next to. It's about the technology WiFi Protect Setup and it serves to allow you use wifi without password. See how easy and safe it is:

What is WPS?

Sharing Wi-Fi network passwords with new users or visitors is not always convenient and reduces home network security. In commercial establishments, this becomes even more risky. That's where the WiFi Protect Setup (WPS) ou “Wi-Fi Protected Setup”, in free translation.

WPS is a protocol created to facilitate the connection between any device and a Wi-Fi router. By pressing the WPS button From this router, access to the Wi-Fi network is temporarily released for anyone trying to connect to it, without having to enter passwords. Just find the network on your PC or cell phone, click connect and, when you see the password field, wait for automatic activation.

Alert: on some devices, you will need to choose the option “Connect using WPS” or similar, for the same to happen.

Other ways to share Wi-Fi with your smartphone

Fortunately, there are simple ways to share home Wi-Fi using a smartphone already connected to the network. first let's see how to share wifi password on iOS.

If the person who wants to connect to the Wi-Fi network is using an iOS device (version 11.0 or higher) to this network and there is already another iOS device connected, both with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals turned on and both people are added to each other's calendars, iOS connected to the network will show a notification that the friend wants to connect. just tap on share password and that's it, the magic happens.

On Android, it is possible share the Wi-Fi network through a QR Code, as long as the device is in version 10.0 or higher. To be able to share, the user will have to open the smartphone's settings and then look for the network settings. Then select the Wi-Fi network you are connected to and, at the bottom of the screen, tap on the QR Code.

Once this is done, on the Android device that will connect to the network, open the camera and point it at the code created on the screen of the other cell phone. A confirmation is expected to establish the connection. On older Android smartphones, it is normal for the QR code not to be recognized natively, requiring an app of its own. We recommend the Barcode and QR reader, which also allows you to copy the Wi-Fi network password in case the connection is not established automatically.

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With this, we conclude our tutorial on how to use WPS, but we leave it to the reader to suggest the D-Link EXO AX5400 router that's pretty smart.