bottom line..

i have a wireless router with a password on it (which most people should)...

with the touch will i be able to put it my password in or does the wireless always have to be open.?

i think jobs said that you can...but for places like college campus' or starbucks you have to have a login onto their site in order to do so...so thats why safari is there

No, he's not talking about a pwd to gain access to the gateway. He's talking about keys (pwd) authentication, for encrypted WLANs.

Or let me be the complete geek here (sorry!) - What WLAN encrypted authentication does the iTouch support, if any.

lol yeah...im talking about the actual password when you click on "connect to a network" it asks for a pass on most PC's...

Don't really know, but apple would have shot thereself in the foot if you cannot gain access to your own protected wifi.

I think most likely you can.

sure hopeso

I am pretty sure that on the iPhone if you go to the wireless settings menu, where you select what network you want to connect to, you have the option of entering in the password, if it is needed, to connect to a password protected network. I don't have the iPhone yet, but this is just based on quite a bit of tinkering with it while I was in the Apple store. If you go to the apple store and go to the iPhone's wireless settings, you should be able to find out for sure, since the touch will be almoust exactly like the iPhone in that way.

I'm going to go ahead and bump this because I also want to know the answer to this...anybody with an iPhone (or anyone who's used the wi-fi on one, for that matter) care to confirm?

My iPhone prompts me for my WEP password so the answer is likely "yes". If iPhone handles Wi-Fi like that, it's a virtual certainty that iPod Touch will too.

Quote: (Originally Posted by Surf Monkey)
My iPhone prompts me for my WEP password so the answer is likely "yes". If iPhone handles Wi-Fi like that, it's a virtual certainty that iPod Touch will too.

Well, that statement now holds about as much water as a sieve, seeing as Apple recently crippled the functionality of another app on the iPod Touch that was also featured on the iPhone... (yes calendar, I'm looking at you).

Just teasing of course - I know that's different. I expect the WiFi access to remembered password-protected networks will be fine.

Quote: (Originally Posted by owen-b)
Well, that statement now holds about as much water as a sieve, seeing as Apple recently crippled the functionality of another app on the iPod Touch that was also featured on the iPhone... (yes calendar, I'm looking at you).

To be fair, iPod Touch itself is just a crippled iPhone so...

Quote: (Originally Posted by Surf Monkey)
To be fair, iPod Touch itself is just a crippled iPhone so...

We preordered knowing what was crippled and where fine with that, what we didnt know when we preordered was that apple was going to be crippling it even more before release and thats what has ####ed most of us off.

What about a Wi-Fi sync to your computer running iTunes?

If I keep my iTouch in the car, simply pulling into the garage 'docks' me and updates my car without having to bring it in the house.

Possible?

BJ