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by TheAceOfHearts 3256 days ago
In your opinion, is setting up a RADIUS server and using WPA2-Enterprise worth it for a consumer? I'm pretty paranoid, and also think it could be an insightful experience to tinker around with networking tools.

Any advice for what constitutes a strong or weak password in this context?

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I wanted to do that in my home, but good luck getting IoT devices to connect which may be a good thing..)

You'd probably have to set up a separate network for those devices (again, technically a good thing) which can be a source of some friction.

It used to be only good routers had a guest network option, but now even $20 TP-Links can use Radius for the main network and WPA2 for the guest network; though I'm not sure you can do something like whitelist by MAC on only the guest network.

>In your opinion, is setting up a RADIUS server and using WPA2-Enterprise worth it for a consumer?

It can be a pain in the ass when the consumer device requires a valid SSL certificate. On active directory networks this isn't much of a problem because a CA is pushed out to devices, but automating this at home can be a bigger issue.

dynamic dns + letsencrypt?
~15 random characters (printable ASCII of course) should be enough for a WPA2 password.