Comments on: iPhone 3.0 OS and WiFi Security

By: matt

matt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:20:59 +0000

i too have one of those ultra paranoid 64 character long passphraes. its a shame that apparently the airport extreme supports wifi protected setup (add network client) but the
ipod touch does not, from what i read.

another thing you can do if you run windows is save your wifi profile to the usb stick (not using notepad as a text file) and that windows connect now will automatically import your wifi passphrase into any windows 7/vista machine, or some hp printers that you stick your usb stick in

By: JCS

JCS — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:51:28 +0000

A brilliant article. So simple when someone spells it out.

By: carrie

carrie — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:42:29 +0000

Bless you, bless you! I tried what seemed like a gazillion times to connect to my protected wireless network but ipod touch kept denying the connection. Finally I found your advice and copied/pasted through notes. Worked right away! Have a great holiday!

By: Joey Powell

Joey Powell — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:27:47 +0000

Awesome! With what you’ve just told me I think I can manage to get it working. I had thought of making a contact with the passkey as the name and after syncing copying and pasting from there but I wasn’t totally sure it would work. I’m just going to try the To field e-mail tip. I didn’t know the keyboard keys were different depending on which app you were in.

Thanks so much for replying and for telling me you did. I’ve searched Google since I got the Touch last night and your blog is the only real information I’ve found that was relevant to what I was searching for.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:13:09 +0000

Joey,

So, if all you need is just to be able to type the backtick (or back-quote, or grave accent, or whatever it’s called), there is a little trick that you can use to get it. It doesn’t appear on the default virtual keyboard layout, but it does appear when you bring up the keyboard for the to/cc/bcc fields in the mail application. Bring up the mail app and compose a new message. Tap the “To:” field and then navigate to the symbols view of the virtual keyboard (first hit the “_123″ button and then the “#+=” button). You should find the backtick in the upper left.

If you insert the backtick into the “To:” field you should then be able to copy/paste it anywhere you want — including the network password field.

As for the synching question, you should be able to use the same trick that I’m using on the Mac with Windows. The only difference is that iTunes syncs with Outlook on Windows (whereas it syncs with Mail.app on the Mac). If you create a note in Outlook with your wifi password you should be able to sync it to your phone in the same way that I described above.

If you don’t have MS Outlook, I’m not sure what to do. There may be other apps that will synch with iTunes, but I’m not sure what they may be.

Good luck.
Brian

By: Joey Powell

Joey Powell — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:27:55 +0000

Is there a way for us Windoze users to copy & paste the key to an iPod Touch? Like you I’m paranoid too and run WPA-PSK security on my router. I got a Touch last night and have restored it and synced my music and apps to it. Now I want to get on the internet and one of the characters in my security key is a ` which I can’t type in on the Touch keypad.

My 3 kids have their own laptop. I have a work TabletPC and personal laptop. My wife has a laptop for home and brings her work laptop home with her sometimes. Then there’s the PocketPC, PSP, and arcade cabinets with computers in them. I’m not up to changing that key and having to re-connect all these devices just for the Touch, but it would be nice.

By: dbv

dbv — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:48:09 +0000

Thanks for this. Too bad iPhone can’t share the net with the Mac through the USB connection.