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Incorrect Wifi Password

Hi, I am having a problem where the iphone can't connect to my home wifi network, because when the password is entered it always says incorrect password. I've found a few threads online about this but none of the answers seem to work. My ipod touch 1st gen can connect to the router (old APC WMR1000B, can only use WEP 64 and 128, doesn't support any other inscription) but my dad's iphone 3g and my brand new iphone 4 cannot. When the WEP is completely disabled the iphones can both connect properly, but obviously some sort of protection is needed on the network.

Things i'v tried:
resetting the wireless settings on the iphone
tried a couple other passwords(in each case entered the Hex and the actual word)
tried putting the dollar sign($) in front of the password(both hex and word)
changing from WEP 64 to WEP 128
Edit* have also tried adding it under other networks on the iphone, same error occurs

Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated, thanks

Message was edited by: Conork2

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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 5:52 AM

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Jan 6, 2011 8:45 AM in response to wjosten

have checked that already, its definitely index one i'm using, to be sure i tried the others too

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Jan 6, 2011 8:53 AM in response to Conork2

Are you typing in your WEP key as a hexadecimal string and not ASCII?

Here's a converter:

http://ei4web.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~kinouchi/cgi-bin/ASCIItoHEX.html

The security that seems to work the best for the iphone is WEP 128 bit with 13 characters. But, some older devices don't assign IP addresses correctly or handle WEP the same way that the iPhone supports.

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Jan 6, 2011 9:04 AM in response to wjosten

When the router generates a key it asks for a password to be input, when the password is input 4 10 digit hex keys are generated ( this is 64 bit),the orriginal word is 8 digits long. I jsut tried converting the hex key that the router generated to hex, and the password, and neither of them worked, also tried with the $ sign infront

Incorrect Wifi Password