Next, at block 660, in response to at least one of i) transmitting the beacon frame, and ii) transmitting the probe response frame, the wireless network interface receives one or more frames from the client station of the first wireless network. In an embodiment, the one or more frames are transmitted outside of the first wireless network. In some embodiments, the one or more frames received at block 660 include one or more multicast frames. In some embodiments, the one or more frames received at block 660 include one or more broadcast frames. In some embodiments, the one or more frames received at block 660 include one or more unicast frames. In some embodiments, the one or more frames received at block 660 include one or more probe request frames.

At block 670, at least one of i) the wireless network interface and ii) a processor of the apparatus, extracts, from the one or more frames received at block 660, network security information corresponding to the first wireless network. Next, at block 680, the wireless network interface of the apparatus uses the network security information to wirelessly connect the wireless network interface to the first AP as part of the first WLAN.

In an embodiment, the network security information in the one or more frames received at block 660 includes a service set identifier (SSID) and a credential corresponding to the first AP. In some embodiments, at least some of the network security information received at block 660 is encrypted. In further embodiments, the method 600 further includes (not shown in FIG. 6) decrypting, with at least one of i) the wireless network interface and ii) the processor of the apparatus, the network security information received at block 660.