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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: Connecting iPhone to wifi
« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2011, 04:21:07 PM »
I am no specialist in Apple products, but after reading the 2wire manual I found an interesting thing on page 9. It tells how to configure the wireless in Apple AirPort and the trick is to enter "$" followed by the ten digit encryption key. Could that be an Apple standard, including iPhones? Just a wild guess, but doesn't hurt trying.

Those screenshots looked really old, the GUI is nothing like that today. I'm guessing Mac 1995 era stuff :)

By the way the 2wire instruction mentioned the wifi password is 10-digit, not 8 like Getback mentioned. As it is hexadecimal type it can be only 10 or 26 digits basically. The hex part is where the problem arises. Earlier iPhone firmwares had a setting for hex/ascii passwords, now the setting is gone. If the dollar trick won't work then the only solution (from the forums) seems to be either leave it open or get a new router that actually works with non-hex passwords. Routers are cheap anyway.
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