On my home network I have a 63 completley random Wi-Fi password and I was wondering if there is any easy way to get the iPod Touch on my network without typing the crazy password, is there?
Thanks
I also have exactly the same question. In fact, it's worse because one of the characters in my password is one that cannot even be accessed by the iPod Touch keypad (it's the rightward point mark under the tilde key: `). I could go and change passwords on my access point and on all of the computers that use it, but that still means I need to type in 63 characters which, on the Touch keypad means there's nearly 100% chance I'll get a character or two wrong. I added that password as a note in a contact file, sync'd and got it into the Touch... but there's no Copy and Paste! Ouch! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
My wifi password is 50 characters long (all alpha numeric, upper and lowercase, with numbers) and I input it manually. It took a long time to make sure I gave care to each character I put in, since its all asterisked out (**). But since I took good care to type it correctly, it worked the first time, and you never have to input it in again. Just an interesting fact: in about the same amount of time it took you (or me) to type your message, you could have input it :P
Yes, I realize that. In fact, while waiting for a response, I just changed the password on my access point, (63 random alphanumeric characters (rather than using the full ASCII character set... some of which are not available on the iPod Touch keyboard)), copy and pasted the new password into all of the laptops that use it, and then slowly... slowly.... slowly typed it into the iPod Touch (can I call it iTouch for short??) with success. It does work
really well but boy what a hassle. If there is ever copy/paste capability here, it would make the job so much easier!
Heh! I did a restore via iTunes, and (this seems obvious after the fact but didn't think of it at the time) after that, you have to enter in the password/key again.
My wifi network is secured too. ANd the only way of accessing it by my ipod touch was by entering the password no matter how long. After the ipod touch has accessed the secured wifi link. Then you wont have to re enter it again on the ipod touch because it will be a identified device on the network.
I actually tried to do exactly that. I had the passcode in a contact list but, of alas, without copy/paste, it was so close... but still so far away. I bit the bullet and just entered the 63 character code in... slooooowly... and everything works. As noted elsewhere, because it is a recognized device, the passcode is securely cached and does not have to be re-entered. If, however, the device is reset (? updated), then I'll need to but the code back in a gain. While it is not an issue now, there surely must be a better way!
....ummm is'nt 63 char a little over kill? I mean would a mix of 7 work fine....Unless you work for the pentagon or something it is hard to imagine someone wanting to break in on your wifi that bad.
For all of you on secure Wi-Fi, you can get around this.
Now, because you're being responsible, you should make sure you use at least WEP on this with a password so you don't leave your LAN/WAN open to idiots - also risking your jobs!
Now, if you have a Mac (don't know how on a PC) and your Mac is connected to the network, open your System Preferences / Sharing pane.
Goto the Internet tab.
Use the settings there to share your connection.
Give your connection a name and a password.
I do this for my PSP and Touch.
Good luck, and again, be smart.
Obviously if you have more than an 8 or 10 character password, you are very concerned about having a secure network, and has been previously questioned, isn't this an overkill. In any case, if this is that much of a concern to you, why don't you just enable MAC filtering on your router which will not allow any device access to your network unless it's MAC address has been included on a list by you and then you can use a smaller password. Of course this assumes your router has MAC filtering capability. If you do decide to implement this tactic, the MAC address can be easily obtained from your iPod touch under general settings > about.
