Do you save your router password to Amazon?

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by 344a

Mine doesn't save it. I need to reenter password in the box every time if I want to connect to internet. Do I miss some setting to enable auto-save function?

The Kindle remembers the association between your wifi SSID and a password: this is the same thing every other device that remembers wifi passwords does, too. Do you have some dubious "security" feature turned on that constantly changes your wifi SSID? I've seen some obscure wifi routers that do this and claim it's more "secure", but much like the "security" setting that prevents SSID broadcasts this is only security through obscurity, with the added downside that it stops connecting clients from remembering wifi passwords reliably.

[344a]

Originally Posted by NullNix

The Kindle remembers the association between your wifi SSID and a password: this is the same thing every other device that remembers wifi passwords does, too. Do you have some dubious "security" feature turned on that constantly changes your wifi SSID? I've seen some obscure wifi routers that do this and claim it's more "secure", but much like the "security" setting that prevents SSID broadcasts this is only security through obscurity, with the added downside that it stops connecting clients from remembering wifi passwords reliably.

The SSID of the router never change. I don't even turn it off. My mobiles, notebooks and other TV device are doing fine with the router.

The Voyage pop me a empty box when I try to connect to wifi.

[mlewis78]

I just bought a Voyage reader this week and saw this option for the first time: saving password to Amazon. I don't think it means anything, because my devices remember my home wi-fi. It is only at my job that I have to enter the password for their wi-fi every day.

I have a lot of trouble with this on some of my Amazon devices. For example, with my fire hdx 8.9" I choose the wi-fi network at my job and the sign-in screen does not appear. I have to forget the network and try again several times before the sign in screen comes up.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by mlewis78

I just bought a Voyage reader this week and saw this option for the first time: saving password to Amazon. I don't think it means anything, because my devices remember my home wi-fi.

As has already been explained, the checkbox doesn't do anything on the device it's set from. If you check the box, though, and then connect to the same WiFi network from a different Amazon device, that second device will then retrieve the WiFi password from Amazon's server, rather than you having to type it in.

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by HarryT

As has already been explained, the checkbox doesn't do anything on the device it's set from. If you check the box, though, and then connect to the same WiFi network from a different Amazon device, that second device will then retrieve the WiFi password from Amazon's server, rather than you having to type it in.

That's impossible on a non-3G Kindle, because it would require connecting to Amazon to acquire a wifi password over a wifi link it doesn't have the password for. What actually happens is that all Amazon-saved wifi passwords for your account are preemptively synced to every device registered to your account as they connect (over wifi connections they *do* have the passwords for).

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by NullNix

That's impossible on a non-3G Kindle, because it would require connecting to Amazon to acquire a wifi password over a wifi link it doesn't have the password for. What actually happens is that all Amazon-saved wifi passwords for your account are preemptively synced to every device registered to your account as they connect (over wifi connections they *do* have the passwords for).

True. Thanks for clarifying that .