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Help HTC desire and easy wireless setup?

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erikbjensen

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Hi,
Just got the HTC desire phone. And I have to say it's quite a promising phone. But when trying to connect to the home network, easy network setup wasn't available.
What I mean with easy wi-fi setup, is that I just press a button on the router and the phone and router sync itself without typing the network key.
My previous phone Nokia 5800 had this ability, and I just pressed the button on the router (dir-655) and everything went automatically.

Is this function available on android? If so how do I enable this?

The phone is now connected to the wi-fi and working flawlessly, but its a really pain to type in all the keys for local network. I know this is a one time thing, but sometime If I have to change the key in the router or have to reset the phone, and then I have to keep typing in these keys. This saved med a lot of time with the Nokia 5800, since I have a long and strong password.

Erik
 
Don't think Desire has that function ...

I use MAC address in the modem settings to only allow my phone/computers MAC address access a little bit more security.

Greg
 
You need the key from your router and type that in your phone after you try and connect to your wi-fi router, I don't know of any other way.
 
Thanks for answers. I was afraid this function isn't (yet) available on android. Hopefully it will be. I'm surprised cause it seems very unfamiliar this feature, when searching around for help. This can't be a European feature alone.
Regarding security, mac address is certainly a good way for security, and could also eliminate long wifi keys (like i have). So I have to look into that now.

Anyway now I know that android phones doesn't support this feature.

I know this ain't a request page, but I'm shouting out, saying and hoping that future Android version will support this.

Well thanks again.

Erik
 
Hey guys,

if you're unable to get the MAC address from the phone, one workaround is this.

Assuming you're using Windows:
Disable MAC filterring on your network
Connect your phone to the network
Bring up a command prompt (start, run, cmd)
List all devices on the network (arp -a)
That should display all IPs and macs - now you just have to figure out which is your phones - that will be the only 192.168.*.* address for which the MAC is not already in your list of allowed MACs.
Add this MAC, disconnect your phone, reenable filterring, connect your phone - hopefully now it will connect with filterring in place.

Your router may also have functionality to list all connected machines on the MAC filter rules page, so you can just tick the phone to add it without going down the ARP command route.

Hope that helps someone,

JB
 
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