WiFi Password changed April 1st

I got an email on April 1st saying the WiFi password was changing. The letter goes on to say other silly things.
Sooo, was this an April Fools joke? I cant find anything official online.

Wi-Fi passwords can be different for every meetinghouse. If your meetinghouse Wi-Fi password is changing, it would be under the direction of your ward or stake leaders – so I would check with them.

sbradshaw wrote:Wi-Fi passwords can be different for every meetinghouse. If your meetinghouse Wi-Fi password is changing, it would be under the direction of your ward or stake leaders – so I would check with them.

SAM can you explain this, you say it so casually as if it's the most common thing, but in my experience it isn't. The Wi-Fi password for LDS Access is not easily changed for any ward/stake unless I've missed something big.

timnew wrote:I got an email on April 1st saying the WiFi password was changing. The letter goes on to say other silly things.
Sooo, was this an April Fools joke? I cant find anything official online.

There actually was a prank on April 1 that the password for LDS Access was changing, I saw it passed around facebook.

I'm reporting based on memory of previous threads on the forum about ways to keep LDSAccess from getting overloaded – one of which would be to change the password and don't distribute it widely – but I can't find any specific thread that says the password can be changed, so I think I'm probably remembering wrong. You would probably know better than me if it's possible. Sorry about that.

In the early days when the equipment was installed by the stake with off the shelf equipment, they had control of the WiFi password. With the church centrally managing it, it may still be possible, but from what I've heard it's extremely difficult to convince those in power to do it. Difficult, because it would require placing that building on a different management profile making management a pain.

I CANT VERIFY FIREWALL IN MY STAKE (EKET, NIGERIA)

Im a member to the church but i dont know my code and the wifi password

brandonjenkins1997 wrote:Im a member to the church but i dont know my code and the wifi password

If you speak with your ward clerk or another leader at Church, you should be able to obtain this information.

General conference was on April 1st soooo... unless the whole meeting was a prank I highley doubt this is.
The reason I'm on this page at all is because I have noticed I can no longer use most applications (via. Social media) and was curious to see exactly what changed. There is an official article now about exactly what they are doing and that apparently they are completely changing the password.
I'm not especially pleased with this, you see, its really hard for me to come to church, I have to convince myself to come, force myself, and my reasoning with myself is : theres wifi there, you can do exactly what your doing now, but at church.
Its not righteous for say, but it gets me there.

bestcatever11 wrote:There is an official article now about exactly what they are doing and that apparently they are completely changing the password.

Can you tell us where this official article is found? If it is not from church headquarters or not on a church website then I doubt what appears to be official is really what it pretends to be. There was an April fools joke letter that went around on social media about changes to the password.

bestcatever11 wrote:The reason I'm on this page at all is because I have noticed I can no longer use most applications (via. Social media) and was curious to see exactly what changed. There is an official article now about exactly what they are doing and that apparently they are completely changing the password.

The WiFi password change was an April Fools Day prank. The password has not changed.

What has changed is that stake presidents now have the capability to restrict the firewall further than before. You might check with your ward clerk or stake technology specialist to see if he has been asked to make this change to the firewall. It is possible for local leaders to restrict church firewalls so that they cannot access social media sites.

Church WiFi is intended for church use. Bandwidth is usually limited and you cannot do at church everything you are able to do at home. When leaders and clerks are not able to access the Internet to accomplish their church responsibilities, they are now able to restrict use of the Internet by others in the meetinghouse so that their church work can be accomplished.

It's now August and this is the 2nd time I've heard of it. I never received any official notice (I'm the STS) via e-mail regarding a password change and ours never changed, so a little confused on if/when this is happening.

Jacobdaviddean wrote:It's now August and this is the 2nd time I've heard of it.

May I ask how you heard about it this time?

The wifi password is not changing. Although local control of the password is not currently available, there are additional (more restrictive) filtering policies stakes can use if they are having bandwidth issues. More information on this is available on MHTech - https://www.lds.org/help/support/meetin ... r?lang=eng. If you find a sites you believe should be blocked/unblocked, submit feedback through TM and your request will be reviewed - https://www.lds.org/help/support/meetin ... k?lang=eng.

I was unable to access the login confirmation last Sunday on my iOS 9.3.5 iPad. Can you help?

You will need to speak with your ward clerk, ward technology specialist, or your stake technology specialist to work with you. Unless you can provide specific details about what you did to try to connect and what happened when you tried to connect along with any error messages we would be shooting in the dark and may cause more confusion than help.