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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: frank117 on December 28, 2010, 05:12:29 PM

Title: Using 64 char PSK
Post by: frank117 on December 28, 2010, 05:12:29 PM

I was happy getting the 64 character PSK key loaded into every device on the wireless side of my network and having them all work until I tried it on a new Nook from BN which will only accept 63 characters.  Any good ideas how to get around this?  I do very little with my network (nube) but it seems to work fine otherwise so experience is minimal because of need.

Frank

Title: Re: Using 64 char PSK
Post by: frank117 on December 30, 2010, 09:00:51 PM

Well I can see that this is hot topic.  So let's try this another way, so how do I have the DIR655 generate a PSK shorter than 64 characters since it did such a fine job generating the 64 character one?

Title: Re: Using 64 char PSK
Post by: Sammydad1 on December 30, 2010, 09:28:40 PM

If you are using WPA or WPA2 (preferable), then you can likely get away with a more reasonable key length, say 15 or 20 characters, or dare I say even less....

Title: Re: Using 64 char PSK
Post by: frank117 on December 30, 2010, 11:37:45 PM

Thanks for that suggestion.  I don't particularly like the Dlink interface and since I rarely get into it I don't recall how I got the 64 character PSK but it was done automatically.  I have spent the last hour reading back and forth and found where you can manually input a shorter passkey so will try that tomorrow when everone is off the network and don't care if I hose things up.

Wish me luck and thanks for responding. :)

Frank