Connecting Ipod touch to internet

[mattpegher]

My ipod touch and my linksys are not on speaking terms. Is there someway to connect wired to a router or modem.

 

[Pliablemoose]

No, the Touch only has Bluetooth that is locked to the Nike stuff.

You should be able to connect to your WiFi router, though. They're slick as hell when hooked up via WiFi.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Yeah. The iTouch should be able to work with any home-based securities available. I've personally had my gf's working on WPA 1 and 2 as well as wep. I've had it hooked to a WRT64G,GL, and a DIR-655. Right now it's actually connected to my laptop via ICS and an ad-hoc network (no wireless router where I'm at currently) with WPA 2 security.

Honestly, if they're not seeing eye to eye its either:

A. Apple firmware borked. Did you jailbreak? Consider restoring.

B. Linksys firmware borked. Did you modify it? Consider restoring to defaults.

C. User error. Security types not matching? Too far from the router? Tell us what settings you're using.

If everything is normal on your devices and you're doing things properly there is no reason that the two devices shouldn't be working just fine with each other.

 

[GregGreen]

One issue I had was that I couldn't run WPA2-AES, I had to run WPA2-TKIP. If someone steals my internets maliciously, oh well. The iPhone over WiFi is worth it in this EDGE area.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: GregGreen
One issue I had was that I couldn't run WPA2-AES, I had to run WPA2-TKIP. If someone steals my internets maliciously, oh well. The iPhone over WiFi is worth it in this EDGE area.

I can't quite remember exactly, but I believe I read on a PSP forum where there was a bug in certain WRT54G routers that would break WPA support (wouldn't work out right). I think it was firmware version 3.0 All the routers affected had a firmware upgrade that fixed the problem so if you think yours or the OP's might be affected, then it could be worth a shot. I'm using AES on my ad-hoc connection between my gf's iTouch and my laptop, so I know it does work at least.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Is WPA2 really necessary? Especially AES? TKIP should be suitable. LOL I'm still stuck on WPA. I realize that gets hacked in no time, but at least it's better than WEP =P

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Is WPA2 really necessary? Especially AES? TKIP should be suitable. LOL I'm still stuck on WPA. I realize that gets hacked in no time, but at least it's better than WEP =P

RC4 (TKIP) is pretty broken these days. WPA-TKIP still holds for the most part (unless your password is on a rainbow table), but I would not do any new AP deployments using it. All new deployments should use WPA2-AES when possible, followed by WPA-AES, WPA2-TKIP, and WPA-TKIP.

 

[GregGreen]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune

Originally posted by: GregGreen
One issue I had was that I couldn't run WPA2-AES, I had to run WPA2-TKIP. If someone steals my internets maliciously, oh well. The iPhone over WiFi is worth it in this EDGE area.

I can't quite remember exactly, but I believe I read on a PSP forum where there was a bug in certain WRT54G routers that would break WPA support (wouldn't work out right). I think it was firmware version 3.0 All the routers affected had a firmware upgrade that fixed the problem so if you think yours or the OP's might be affected, then it could be worth a shot. I'm using AES on my ad-hoc connection between my gf's iTouch and my laptop, so I know it does work at least.

It's possible. I'm running a Buffalo WHR-G54S with tomato and I believe that uses the same chipset as the WRT54Gs so that could definitely be it.

EDIT: reading about a firmware update makes me quite a bit more skeptical of the info you are talking about. But it could definitely just not be corrected in tomato.

 

[bosox204]

What i did with the WRT54GS was go to the linksys website, type in the WRT54GS as the product that I own, download the firmware (desktop is easiest). Use 192.168.1.1 in web browser in order to access your linksys router and go to Administration. Then go to Update firmware. Upload the version (i think 1.52.6) from the desktop and wait for it to complete installation. It will restart your router with all the same settings, but your ipod should work. I tried to get mine to work for almost 3 hours and my ipod was connectin to the router but it wasn't giving the ipod an ip address. With the update, it took 15 seconds to log on...hope this is helpful