Abstract: A configurable mobile system comprises a WiFi network interface and a wireless personal area network (WPAN) interface configured to communicate over a first type of WPAN. The system detects, via the WPAN interface, a presence of a beacon communicating over a WPAN of the first type and receives, from the beacon over the WPAN of the first type via the secure WPAN interface, network information for a local WiFi network. The system utilizes the network information received via the secure WPAN interface to configure network settings of the configurable mobile system with respect to the WiFi network interface to enable the configurable system to access the local WiFi network. The network information may including the network settings or may provide a link to such network settings.