Hopefully it's only a software not a hardware problem and apple will come with a firmware update. Edge has ok speed and it would be great if we could use wifi on it. I'm using a macbook pro and do not have a problem with connecting to wifi on it; I just use the same PAWS password so I don't have to reset up wireless again. I wish lsu would keep lsuwireless usable but still keep lsusecure.
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My school's network doesn't support iPhone wifi
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Hopefully it's only a software not a hardware problem and apple will come with a firmware update. Edge has ok speed and it would be great if we could use wifi on it. I'm using a macbook pro and do not have a problem with connecting to wifi on it; I just use the same PAWS password so I don't have to reset up wireless again. I wish lsu would keep lsuwireless usable but still keep lsusecure.
Yeah, same here. My employers (a Big Ten University) require the Cisco VPN client to use their WiFi on campus, fine with a laptop (there's a Mac Client), but for the iPhone I'm screwed. Luckily I work off campus and we have our own WiFi router.
I have a macbook that connects fine on campus, just hate the fact that the authentication is tied to a PAWS password that exprires every 30 days or so. I have my email setup using IMAP and rarely login the webpage so have no idea when my password is set to expire. Just one day I can't pull a connection and have to change the keychain. While easy on the Mac, I know many people who have problems with this on the PC. I don't know how hard it would be to add 802.11x the iphone, but would be very appreciated. Guess we will have to wait and see. EDGE works well, I never had a 3G phone so don't know how much of a difference it would be. Checks email fine and random webpages. I think the biggest slowdown is the mail.app and not the network. The iphone makes a good pocket wireless sniffer to fine networks to jump onto without having to fire up the laptop.
I've posted on this several times. 802.1X authentication uses EAP/PEAP/LEAP for user verification. Not including this was a huge oversight on Apple's part and I filed a formal bug report the day after iDay. Additionally, I spoke with one of the engineers and they were unaware that so many universities were using this type of authentication for wifi networks. It has been escalated up the priority list and will most likely be seen in the first MAJOR update. I'm a faculty member at a sizable university and I can understand how frustrating it is to be tied to EDGE when your entire campus is blanketed by WiFi -- just have to be patient.
Most schools are now using 802.1X as their baseline security, OS X supports it but iphone doesn't.
aka, that means you are SOL unless apple release a wifi update, because i am pretty sure school won't change their whole security policy for our iphones/ipod touch.
aka, that means you are SOL unless apple release a wifi update, because i am pretty sure school won't change their whole security policy for our iphones/ipod touch.
That was unnecessary. You don't know why this was left out of the iPhone. if Apple sees that this functionality is needed they may very well include it in future updates. Being an Apple 'haterboy' is just as bad as being an Apple fanboy.