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The Wolfram Password Generator Reference App is the perfect tool for producing new secure passwords and for analyzing your current passwords. Security experts have identified weak passwords as a prime vulnerability in corporate and personal security. Ping away, Looks good, but.Yes this app does what it says on the box.However when you create a good strong password, there's no way to copy that and use it for say a website or where ever I might need a password/login.
The only way is to copy all ten generated passwords paste'em as text into Evernote (or another text editor) and then select the one password you need copy-paste into whatever login. Or you could of course go old school pen and paper:-)I did try to reach support, but support is just to well hidden on their website.
JamesF03, Great app, but hasn't been updated in years!I bought this app when it first came out and it has served me well, but now it has been two years, since it received it's last update and there is a good chance that with the new iOS update it will not work at all, since iOS keeps complaining it will slow down my iPad and iPhone if used. How about updating your apps.
How about updating them, so all the money I have spent in them isn't going down the drain!I wish developers would stop selling apps they really don't plan to support or stand by.Otherwise this is an excellent and very useful app!
I've replaced my old router with a new Time Capsule (TC). The router is connected to a Motorola SB6120 cable modem for internet access via my cable TV company. Set up of the TC seemed to go smoothly, the network still has the same SSID and WEP security code as it did before, picked up automagically from the old router during the set up. My wireless devices are a Macbook Pro (that I used to do the setup), an iMac, an iPad2, two iPhone4s (plural iPhones, not to be confused with the new iPhone4S), an HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One printer, and the problem - a Dell Inspiron N5010 PC running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1.After completing the set up I had to re-enter the WEP security code on each Apple device and the printer when they first tried to connect to the network, even though the code had not changed, but other than that one-time minor inconvenience they all connect fine.The problem is with the Dell PC. It can 'see' the network - the SSID shows in the list of available networks - and it sees excellent signal strength, but it connects with only 'Limited Access'.
Neither disconnecting from the network and reconnecting, nor disabling and re-enabling the network card, changes that. Initially, running the Network Troubleshooting routine produced the following result:- The 1st (and only) stopping point was a request to confirm the WEP security code. The code shown was correct, but I re-entered it and continued.- The troubleshooting routine then went through a series of other checks without stopping for user input or confirmation.- The troubleshooting routine ended by showing 2 Problems Found:1) the security code confirmation2) 'IP problem' (not the exact wording, but something about an IP address problem).After doing some research on the internet, I downloaded and installed Airport Utility on the Dell PC and tried to run it. On launching Airport Utility I got this message on the screen, 'Unable to find any Airport wireless device'.Again I tried to run the Windows Network Troubleshooting routine.
Again the 1st item is to confirm the WEP security code after which the routine runs to completion without stopping. Now there are 2 different problems found:1) Problem with wireless adapter of access point - Detected - triangle with! Inside2) Windows cannot connect to SSID network name - Fixed - circle with checkmark insideAny suggestions for what might be going on? What hardware or settings I ought to check and report back on?Thanks in advance for and suggestions anyone can offer. Aside: my iMac shows that the network security type is WPA2, not WEP, but it connects just fine anyway! Ok, a few things in the default setup of the TC are not windows network compatible.1. Remove spaces and non-alphanumeric characters from the TC name.
Ie use TC123 not apple network fredricha 678. Same with wireless name.
Same with passkey.2. Set the wireless to manual. And give a different name to the 5ghz network without brackets.3. Set fixed channels for 2.4ghz and 5ghz. The possible channels for 2.4ghz are 1, 6, 11 that are non-overlapping. Using any inbetween channels is pointless.
It will still overlap.4. Set security to wpa2 personal. But if you run into issues leave security off until you get it working.5. On the disks file sharing page turn on the guest access and allow read write permissions.6.
Set the workgroup to the correct windows workgroup, usually WORKGROUPUpdate the TC. You are done there.But you can go to the advanced / Logging & Statistics / Down the bottom click Logs & Statistic. (really dumb using the same name for both screens btw apple. Wireless Clients. You will then get info on the wireless connected clients.In windows. You do not state what version windows, but just like OSX it matters.Vista being the worst windows perhaps of all time.
(even beating Me)Ok with windows you need to make sure it does not get confused what area it is in, It has to be home, not work or public. You cannot use a windows 7 homegroup. It might need to have the firewall shut off.It is probably worth turning off ipv6. You need to open the TCP/IP properties associated with the particular wireless card, and uncheck ipv6.
That is assuming you are still using ipv4 on your ISP. There are a few experimental ipv6 ISP.
Good luck with those.Open a command window and ping the IP of the TC. It is by default 10.0.1.1If that works ping it by name.Now on windows explorer type tcname or ipaddressoftcYou will generally be asked for a username and password. Just use the current username and default TC password is public. If you have set it use that password.If it fails go back and plug in the TC by ethernet to the PC. Reset the TC and start again using the PC version of the airport utility. This may help to overcome any issues.It has worked fine for me on all my various PC versions.!! Thanks again for your suggestions and instructions, now wish me luck!Yes, I do!!Never mind - Google is my friend!Sure is.2.
How do I determine which of the two networks to use?Easy. Pick the best one. Ie best signal strength and speed. 5ghz is better speed and poor range. 2.4ghz the opposite.
At any point pick the best. Best signal / speed. Close to the router, it will be 5ghz. Further away 2.4ghz will be better. It is a 10sec effort.The reason to do this manually is the TC is designed to swap channels automatically when there is interference.
It is also so the client on the computer (mac only) will auto swap between 2.4ghz and 5ghz for whichever is faster. So you have auto channels on top of auto band. And even the Mac gets confused.
The PC has no idea.3. What channel should I set for the 5 ghz network? (If I recall correctly, the TC is presently using channel 6 - does that apply to both networks?)No. 2.4ghz uses channels 1-11 in USA. 1-13 in Europe Australia.There are 3 non-overlapping channels, 1, 6, 11. Pick one and try it. Better still on the PC download the application inssider.
And you will see which channels are in use. Usually all of them if you live in a city in USA or moderately weathly country. Pick the channel with the lowest signal and use that. Since only those three channels are non-overlapping picking channel 9 for instance because nobody is using it, is pointless. Wireless on both channel 6 and channel 11 will then interfere with it. Use the lowest signal channel, out of the three, 1, 6, 11.
(13 in Europe 14 in Japan).5ghz has a large range of channels, beginning from 36 up to 151 (at least in Australia). Your country if different will vary. Use the lower channels if possible. But there is not much interference yet on 5ghz. Usually you can just use 40 which meets lower end equipment. Eg early versions of the AEBS and TC do not offer a large range of channels.4. Can I leave the security as WEP until I get everything working?
I understand that WPA2 is betterWEP is equal to a strong door on a tent. It is next to useless. It keeps out people who are not trying to get in. And offers 1min of difficulty to the guy with the knife. Use no security to do setup. Then use WPA2.
If something doesn't work with wpa2 you can use wpa at a pinch. Throw away any item not compliant with at least WPA. WEP is not a rated security for N wireless. It could well not work or fall back to G wireless. So for testing just turn off security. When it is working jump straight to wpa2.5.
Why turn on the Guest account? I don't see that it's used in the subsequent steps.If you ever want to write to or read the hard disk from PC. You will have issues with security on Windows not matching the TC. You do not need to use guest account (this is hard disk access not wireless btw). If you never want to use hard disk. I added it for completeness. You can also fight your way through the difference in security between a Mac and a PC with win7 in particular.
Loads of fun. If the disk is going to be on a private network and the TC has to be really, then use guest network. If anyone wants to break in it is no more difficult than holding down the reset for 1sec and it will reset all the passwords. So what more security do you need. Guest is fine.6. I do have a workgroup specified on the 3 computers, but it's one that I created and it's not named SMB uses workgroup name. What name you use is irrelevant.
Again this is for hard disk access. If you just want internet it is not necessary to worry about. Put into the workgroup name the name of YOUR workgroup. But it makes it appear in the windows networking as a network drive and that can be helpful.Somewhere on the Dell PC I've seen that both ipv6 and ipv4 show as not used, don't recall where I saw it though, and there did not appear to be any way to change it.You have internet connection it MUST use TCP/IP which has to be either ipv4 or ipv6 or both. That is how the internet works.
You cannot have neither. You change the settings in TCP/IP properties box associated with the wireless card. Go to device manager and the wireless device. Click on it and go to properties. See TCP/IP and go the advanced.You need to learn to use the networking tools.The key tool is ping.
That allows you to see if a device is available and responding on the network.Command window is same as terminal on the Mac. (well near enough).
You do low level commands. Both will do ping.You can also get all the settings in the network.Simple one is ipconfig in windows. Ifconfig in the mac. That will show the IP address of all the network clients. In windows there is a full description if you do ipconfig /allThese commands are very important to use and learn about.
Ok, a few things in the default setup of the TC are not windows network compatible.1. Remove spaces and non-alphanumeric characters from the TC name. Ie use TC123 not apple network fredricha 678. Same with wireless name. Same with passkey.2. Set the wireless to manual. And give a different name to the 5ghz network without brackets.3.
Set fixed channels for 2.4ghz and 5ghz. The possible channels for 2.4ghz are 1, 6, 11 that are non-overlapping. Using any inbetween channels is pointless. It will still overlap.4. Set security to wpa2 personal. But if you run into issues leave security off until you get it working.5.
On the disks file sharing page turn on the guest access and allow read write permissions.6. Set the workgroup to the correct windows workgroup, usually WORKGROUPUpdate the TC. You are done there.But you can go to the advanced / Logging & Statistics / Down the bottom click Logs & Statistic. (really dumb using the same name for both screens btw apple. Wireless Clients.
You will then get info on the wireless connected clients.In windows. You do not state what version windows, but just like OSX it matters.Vista being the worst windows perhaps of all time. (even beating Me)Ok with windows you need to make sure it does not get confused what area it is in, It has to be home, not work or public. You cannot use a windows 7 homegroup.
It might need to have the firewall shut off.It is probably worth turning off ipv6. You need to open the TCP/IP properties associated with the particular wireless card, and uncheck ipv6.
That is assuming you are still using ipv4 on your ISP. There are a few experimental ipv6 ISP. Good luck with those.Open a command window and ping the IP of the TC. It is by default 10.0.1.1If that works ping it by name.Now on windows explorer type tcname or ipaddressoftcYou will generally be asked for a username and password.
Just use the current username and default TC password is public. If you have set it use that password.If it fails go back and plug in the TC by ethernet to the PC. Reset the TC and start again using the PC version of the airport utility.
This may help to overcome any issues.It has worked fine for me on all my various PC versions.!! LaPastenaguel,Thank you for the suggestions, I will try them this evening and report back. For the moment, I can comment on some of your thoughts and I have questions about others to be sure I understand.On the TC1. I do not have spaces or non-alphanumeric characters in my wireless name (the SSID?) or passkey, but I do have 1 of each in my TC name. I'll fix that.2. 'Set the wireless to manual.'
You are talking about running the TC setup in manual mode rather than automatic, yes? Doing this means that I will see two different networks in my list of available networks, one being the 2.4 ghz and the other being the 5 ghz? When setting up each of my devices to connect to a network, how do I determine which of the two networks to use?3. What channel should I set for the 5 ghz network?
(If I recall correctly, the TC is presently using channel 6 - does that apply to both networks?)4. Can I leave the security as WEP until I get everything working?
I understand that WPA2 is better, but I also know that everything was working fine using the previous router with WEP and I'd prefer to not introduce the complication of changing security modes, or disabling the existing security mode, at the same time I'm trying to get the Dell PC to connect.5. Why turn on the Guest account? I don't see that it's used in the subsequent steps.6. I do have a workgroup specified on the 3 computers, but it's one that I created and it's not named On the Dell PCI did state that the PC is running Windows 7 SP1. And for what it's worth, I have Windows 7 SP1 on the Macbook Pro as well, with Parallels 6, and that can see the Time Capsule and connect to the internet without issue.Regarding ipv6 and ipv4 - I think I've seen somewhere on the Macs that ipv4 is used, ipv6 is not.
Somewhere on the Dell PC I've seen that both ipv6 and ipv4 show as not used, don't recall where I saw it though, and there did not appear to be any way to change it. I will look specifically in the TCP/IP properties as you have instructed.'
Open a command window and ping.' I've no idea how to do either of those things!Thanks again for your suggestions and instructions, now wish me luck! Thanks again for your suggestions and instructions, now wish me luck!Yes, I do!!Never mind - Google is my friend!Sure is.2. How do I determine which of the two networks to use?Easy. Pick the best one. Ie best signal strength and speed.
5ghz is better speed and poor range. 2.4ghz the opposite. At any point pick the best. Best signal / speed. Close to the router, it will be 5ghz. Further away 2.4ghz will be better.
It is a 10sec effort.The reason to do this manually is the TC is designed to swap channels automatically when there is interference. It is also so the client on the computer (mac only) will auto swap between 2.4ghz and 5ghz for whichever is faster. So you have auto channels on top of auto band. And even the Mac gets confused. The PC has no idea.3. What channel should I set for the 5 ghz network? (If I recall correctly, the TC is presently using channel 6 - does that apply to both networks?)No.
2.4ghz uses channels 1-11 in USA. 1-13 in Europe Australia.There are 3 non-overlapping channels, 1, 6, 11. Pick one and try it. Better still on the PC download the application inssider. And you will see which channels are in use. Usually all of them if you live in a city in USA or moderately weathly country.
Pick the channel with the lowest signal and use that. Since only those three channels are non-overlapping picking channel 9 for instance because nobody is using it, is pointless.
Wireless on both channel 6 and channel 11 will then interfere with it. Use the lowest signal channel, out of the three, 1, 6, 11. (13 in Europe 14 in Japan).5ghz has a large range of channels, beginning from 36 up to 151 (at least in Australia). Your country if different will vary. Use the lower channels if possible. But there is not much interference yet on 5ghz. Usually you can just use 40 which meets lower end equipment.
Eg early versions of the AEBS and TC do not offer a large range of channels.4. Can I leave the security as WEP until I get everything working?
I understand that WPA2 is betterWEP is equal to a strong door on a tent. It is next to useless. It keeps out people who are not trying to get in.
And offers 1min of difficulty to the guy with the knife. Use no security to do setup. Then use WPA2.
If something doesn't work with wpa2 you can use wpa at a pinch. Throw away any item not compliant with at least WPA.
WEP is not a rated security for N wireless. It could well not work or fall back to G wireless. So for testing just turn off security. When it is working jump straight to wpa2.5. Why turn on the Guest account? I don't see that it's used in the subsequent steps.If you ever want to write to or read the hard disk from PC. You will have issues with security on Windows not matching the TC.
You do not need to use guest account (this is hard disk access not wireless btw). If you never want to use hard disk. I added it for completeness. You can also fight your way through the difference in security between a Mac and a PC with win7 in particular.
Loads of fun. If the disk is going to be on a private network and the TC has to be really, then use guest network.
If anyone wants to break in it is no more difficult than holding down the reset for 1sec and it will reset all the passwords. So what more security do you need. Guest is fine.6. I do have a workgroup specified on the 3 computers, but it's one that I created and it's not named SMB uses workgroup name. What name you use is irrelevant. Again this is for hard disk access.
If you just want internet it is not necessary to worry about. Put into the workgroup name the name of YOUR workgroup. But it makes it appear in the windows networking as a network drive and that can be helpful.Somewhere on the Dell PC I've seen that both ipv6 and ipv4 show as not used, don't recall where I saw it though, and there did not appear to be any way to change it.You have internet connection it MUST use TCP/IP which has to be either ipv4 or ipv6 or both. That is how the internet works.
You cannot have neither. You change the settings in TCP/IP properties box associated with the wireless card. Go to device manager and the wireless device.
Click on it and go to properties. See TCP/IP and go the advanced.You need to learn to use the networking tools.The key tool is ping. That allows you to see if a device is available and responding on the network.Command window is same as terminal on the Mac.
(well near enough). You do low level commands.
Both will do ping.You can also get all the settings in the network.Simple one is ipconfig in windows. Ifconfig in the mac. That will show the IP address of all the network clients. In windows there is a full description if you do ipconfig /allThese commands are very important to use and learn about. Thanks for your further guidance today. I've got a lot to do tonight!
And it will be interesting to compare the settings that are in Windows 7 on my Mac v the settings on the Dell PC.I find that I gave incorrect information about ipv4 and ipv6. I believe that I must have been looking at a window titled Wireless Network Connection Status, and what it showed was:IPv4 Connectivity: No network accessIPv6 Connectivity: No network accessI will find the TCP/IP properties window and make sure that both ipv4 and ipv6 are checked.Yes, I do need to learn to use the networking tools, as well as the Command Window on the PC and Terminal on the Mac.Thanks for your help today, you've been great! Apple Footer.This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.