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ZENYO · 12-26-2010, 02:55 PM

Hello All, Just got the Kobo Wireless and I'm havingtroubles connecting to my wireless network.

My network Setup:
Linksys wrt54gl 1.1 (no firmware upgrades)
WPA-TKIP
64 Character Password, Upper/Lower Case and Special Characters
Mac Filtering on.

I added the Kobo's MAC do the list and I couldn't connect. I turned off MAC Filtering and I still couldn't connect. So, I synced up and updated and i couldn't connect. After reading another thread here, I reset the unit and I still couldn't connect. Soooo....

I disabled wireless security and connected fine. Then I enabled WPA-AES with an 8 character password and I connected fine, then I changed to WPA-TKIP with 8 characters and connected fine. hmmm... So I upped my passwrod to 26 characters and I can't connect again.

Is there a character limit? Any idea how can connect to WPA with more than an 8 character password?

12-26-2010, 02:55 PM	#1
ZENYO Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: KOBO	Troubles Connecting to Wireless Network Hello All, Just got the Kobo Wireless and I'm havingtroubles connecting to my wireless network. My network Setup: Linksys wrt54gl 1.1 (no firmware upgrades) WPA-TKIP 64 Character Password, Upper/Lower Case and Special Characters Mac Filtering on. I added the Kobo's MAC do the list and I couldn't connect. I turned off MAC Filtering and I still couldn't connect. So, I synced up and updated and i couldn't connect. After reading another thread here, I reset the unit and I still couldn't connect. Soooo.... I disabled wireless security and connected fine. Then I enabled WPA-AES with an 8 character password and I connected fine, then I changed to WPA-TKIP with 8 characters and connected fine. hmmm... So I upped my passwrod to 26 characters and I can't connect again. Is there a character limit? Any idea how can connect to WPA with more than an 8 character password? Last edited by ZENYO; 12-26-2010 at 07:08 PM.