So I was forced to do a factory reset on my MC801A to diagnose another issue. When it came back up and I tried to configure the same WiFi settings as I had before, it's now forcing me to add a special character to my Wifi Key. It was using a key without a special character before the factory reset, and also the DEFAULT password after the factory reset does not even have a special character in it, but when I try to set my normal password, it wants a special character.
So now I have an entire day resetting/repairing and rejoining a large number of smart home devices with a new wifi password and reconfiguring them in my home assistant system. This is NOT something I'm prepared to have to do, so I've been forced now to order a 2.4ghz router to arrive tomorrow to run my smart home network.
This is totally stupid in my opinion. It should be down to the network owner to decide whether they want to use what three decides is an "insecure" wifi password. So now I'm having to use a secondary AP next to this expensive 5G ZTE simply because the price of the second access point is worth less than an entire days time and stress trying to fix the issue with three.
