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The reason it works with the Kingston is that the Kingston is able to connect to your WiFi Network and once it is, then when you're connected with the Wi-Drive, you're also on the Net. Pretty swift. - Andrys |
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of 13 characters which is too few for a secure passphrase. WPA/WPA2 allows up to 63 characters. Quote:
WiFi network? Given current methods of attacking the WPA/WPA2 passphrase 20 characters is about the minimum which can stand up to an attack for a reasonable amount of time. Quote:
access on a daily basis or even more often is not the same as setting a WiFi passphrase once in a device and not having to set it again until you decide it needs to be changed. Quote:
your phone you are not limited to 13 characters so if someone wants to have a secure WiFi network they are free to use more. (FWIW - an 8 character WPA/WPA2 passphrase can be broken on average in half a day or less. We do it routinely as part of our security scan. Make sure whatever WiFi network your phone associates with does not have any traffic you would not like to see broadcast to everyone within a kilometer or so.) Quote:
passphrase length. WEP with 8 or 800 character passphrase is just as vulnerable. Why is it a horror? You only had to enter the passphrase once on each device. It is not something you had to do every day or even every week. |
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01-25-2012, 08:17 AM | #18 | |
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I never said that the relative insecuritiy of WEP was due to the length of the passphrase. Only that it was a horror because it's long, and nothing to do with being the cause of that more insecuret choice. |
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01-25-2012, 09:59 AM | #19 | |
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I have safely used an 8 character WPA2-PSK on my home network for many years and nobody has ever accidentally connected to it. WPA/WPA2 is vulnerable when simple pass phrases are used. If a hacker is sniffing wireless packets they can launch an off-line dictionary attack against your PSK passphrase, and if your passphrase is in the wordlist then chances are yes the attack will be successful. In other words, if you use any “common password”, your password is easily crackable. The exploit used by coWPAtty and other similar tools is one of dumb passphrases. This allows hackers to leverage a human element in obtaining the key. To make it more uncrackable, you need to use a password that contains random letters, digits and (if allowed) punctuation. If you’re going to use WPA2 to secure your home WLAN, then do it right by choosing a strong and random PSK passphrase. The more random your WPA preshared key, the safer it is to use. Using a-z and 0-9 characters, there are 36 possibilities per character with combinations of PSKs equals 36 raised to the number of characters used. While cracking a really strong 8 character password is possible, it is impractical to use the time and resources required to target a home user. Of course a longer passphrase is more secure, but unless your guarding state secrets, 8 characters used correctly is the minimum and an acceptable password length. And if you are guarding state secrets you would be foolish to use wireless in the first place. I'm aware it is not the same but it illustrates the point, if it is difficult to remember a long and complex password used on a daily basis imagine how hard it becomes when you need to change the password or add another device down the road six months later. Like you said, set it and forget it, literally. While most routers have a hard reset which makes it easy to recover lost admin and Wi-Fi passwords, sometimes this leads to more headaches and frustration for the average home user. Last edited by obsessed2; 01-25-2012 at 10:49 AM. |
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02-14-2012, 08:56 AM | #20 | |
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The Wi-drive application for android devices is still in beta though (I'm glad it works on the Nexus S, as it targeted android tablets). I don't know if there's a proxy support in the iOS app. edit : if you have a better experience with a proxy, please give us some details Last edited by oliwek; 02-14-2012 at 09:04 AM. |
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02-14-2012, 09:50 AM | #21 |
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I have the time warner hotspot that has a micro sd slot that I have added a 32 gig sd to it. So I have my wifi and my additional storage all in one.
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The thing I liked about the AirStash is that you can swap out SD cards in it. But man it's expensive! I like the wifi relaying functionality of the wi-drive and it's a lot less expensive too.
Someone needs to make a powered SD adapter so that eye-fi cards can be used directly too. |
02-14-2012, 11:51 AM | #23 |
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$90 is a lot of money for 32GB. Plus you have another device to lug around. That makes the effective price of the Fire $289. Not a very good deal.
The Fire is a great tablet if you don't need more than 6GB of storage. If you need more than that, then it sucks. Last edited by tubemonkey; 02-14-2012 at 03:51 PM. Reason: typo |
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After reading this thread, I picked up the 32gb model on Amazon for $89 new my question is, and this may be really dumb but, does it have to be dedicated to just one device? Could I store stuff from bot my Kindle Fire and 16gb iPad 1 on the same portable hard drive?
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It is not dedicated to one device. The App for accessing resides on the device and not the Wi-Drive itself. In fact, check out this thread where an iPad owner who owns a Wi-Drive was trying to get it to work with the Fire. You may want to PM him and ask him if he is able to use it on both. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ighlight=drive |
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Down to $82 at Amazon now:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER |
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I picked up both the 32 GB Wi-Drive and the 500 GB Seagate GoFlex Satellite a month ago. The Wi-Drive connects with both Kindle Fires, but the Wi-Drive app is not compatible with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus. The GoFlex Satellite connects with all three, although the GoFlex Media app had to be sideloaded onto the Fires. We like being able to use the bridge mode of the Wi-Drive so the Fires can stream movies and still have wifi access. That's the one drawback of the GoFlex Satellite, connect to it and you have no wifi. The GoFlex Satellite has much better storage capacity, 500 GB v. 32 GB, but having the wifi connection gives the Wi-Drive a little edge.
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