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Offline innovan

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25 character limit on wireless name is too small
« on: July 20, 2014, 11:27:47 am »
My previous router supported a 30 character long american english name for wireless. Please change from 25 characters to 30 for american routers.

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Re: 25 character limit on wireless name is too small
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2014, 11:43:56 am »
You can set longer SSID's by going into the web UI, but I'll let the software team know about this issue for the LCD UI.

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Re: 25 character limit on wireless name is too small
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2014, 10:22:37 pm »
If I recall correctly 63 characters is the max supported by the wpa2 standard although some network equip takes even more. Should be able to do at least that many. Just a pain to setup!

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Re: 25 character limit on wireless name is too small
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2014, 07:02:39 am »
Just curious, what name do you use that is so long?

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Re: 25 character limit on wireless name is too small
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2014, 09:38:15 am »
This will be addressed in a future firmware update.

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Re: 25 character limit on wireless name is too small
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2014, 12:55:33 pm »
Just curious, what name do you use that is so long?

Probably one of those people who write a sentence in the SSID field, like so:

 

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