Make Guests Happy: Wi-Fi on the Fridge, Chargers on a Side Table
At the Millers’ last year, the first coat hit the chair and the first question arrived: “What’s the Wi-Fi?” Sue pointed to a little 3×5 card on the fridge: Miller-Guest / pumpkin2025. No shouting letters across the kitchen, no digging for the router sticker. Phones connected, conversation kept flowing.
That guest network took two minutes the day before. Most routers and mesh systems (Eero, Orbi, Google/Nest, Xfinity/AT&T apps, etc.) have a simple Guest Network toggle. Turn it on, give it a friendly name, pick an easy password, and you’re done. Your visitors get fast internet; your own devices stay separate and safe.
A couple of small touches make it feel effortless:
The card. Write the network name and password clearly and tape it somewhere obvious (fridge, entry table). If you’re an iPhone household, you can also share Wi-Fi with nearby iPhones—when a guest taps your network, your phone offers to send the password. Many Android phones can show a Wi-Fi QR code in Settings so guests can scan and join.
The charging corner. Put a power strip and two spare cables (USB-C and Lightning cover nearly everyone) on a side table. People won’t unplug lamps, and you won’t rummage for cords mid-story. A small basket keeps it tidy.
A quick morning check. If the whole house will be streaming a game and making video calls, do a quiet restart of the modem/router with your first cup of coffee. It clears the cobwebs so the day feels snappy.
Little things like this take the pressure off the host. Guests help themselves, phones stay alive, and you stay in the conversation instead of playing tech concierge.
If you’d like, we can pop in (or hop on remotely) the day before to switch on the guest network, check speeds where people actually sit, and set up a neat charging spot—so your gathering feels easy from the first hello.
