Take a string as bytes is bad with weird non-ASCII characters. Been there, been bitten in the ass by it.
At least with e-mail clients different clients on different operating systems use different encoding by default for their passwords.
With a router I could imagine different client apps following different standards.
Intelligence does not protect you from stupidity.
Installing OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my wife's laptop as we speak. Stupid thing forcefully installed 11.
Have you tried different browsers? You should also enter the full URL sometimes they're a bit stupid nowadays. So http://192.168.x.x:1500/
Maybe the browsers bring their own VPN. Some process all traffic to make it more "mobile friendly". Or they have some other kind of proxy.
There were knife and souvenir shops in Spain that sold katanas. Don't think they were sharp but I always wanted to have one when we went there on vacation. But they were too expensive. But we did get some shuriken, nunchakus (I got some padded ones because I was the younger child) and a butterfly knife.
I blame Douglas Adams' extended tax evasion scheme. I think they were already struggling to finish the first one.
On the other end you have communities where only the owner posts. Speaking from experience...
I can't believe I'm rooting for ISPs.
That's a big pen.
