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1:00 pm, November 17th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Reader Diego sent this in: “This at a restaurant in New York last week,” he says. “No words needed.”
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haha
deepkid, on November 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
The problem is that they are using WEP
MacRat, on November 17th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
They’re using an Airport Extreme/Express which has proprietary passkey hashing, i.e. APPLE FAIL.
I tried to add the link to the macnn forum that discusses this but apparently you block comments with URLs now…
This is the same problem you get when connecting a PS3 to an Apple wireless router. It’s really annoying to input all those damn characters with the controller too. =(
Church of Apple, on November 17th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
@Church of Apple
You might consider it “APPLE FAIL,” but it’s important to remember that most conversion systems for WEP equivalent passkeys are proprietary to whichever company makes your router, not just ones made by Apple.
Andrew, on November 18th, 2009 at 1:22 am
For what is the password good at all, as it’s placed visible to every visitor of the place. It’s as good as no password at all, it’s just more difficult to enter it for PC users …
Tom, on November 18th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Wow. What a great way to lose customers!
ISTM that these Apple-loving, tech-challenged restaurant owners can’t do simple configuration. Too bad wireless routers have more than one button!
They need help from somebody. Don’t they have any teenagers around? Does their VCR blink 12:00? Can’t a random customer spend 3 minutes and fix their mess?
iGenius, on November 18th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Apple Airport Extreme? Why don’t they get a real router which handles the majority of laptops correctly/easily, instead of this braindead POS?
iGenius, on November 18th, 2009 at 10:22 am
So the logic here is that PC’s passcode is retarded, Mac’s is cool. Therefore Mac > PC; Mac is more functional than PC. No words needed! I mean, look at it. It’s iHilarious (that’s not just hilarious, it’s beyond hilarious, kinda like BO vs BBO). English vs. gibberish, which one would you choose? Hello?? It’s so yObvious (you can’t use i here because first letter is a vowel and you have to use the special rule which I just made up, which is to use ‘y’ instead of ‘i’ to Macify it).
And then if you try to explain to people that it all depends on the router’s setup, and it’s probably because they are using some Apple brand router… blah blah.. I just fell asleep typing that… nevermind.. just nevermind. I feel silly explain this crap to people who doesn’t really give a crap about this crap. Go on Mac, take over the world. Just do it. But please do it quickly and swiftly. I can only bare so much Mac vs. PC icommercials on my iTV.
If PC is Genghis Khan, then Mac is Hitler
P.S. Is Hitler too strong here? He is a really evil man, maybe I should choose a lesser famous evil man who brainwash people just as good as A… ergh I mean Hitler.
iMoron, on November 18th, 2009 at 10:54 am
@iGenius — what’s a……..VCR?
Neal, on November 18th, 2009 at 11:32 am
apple extreme base station – simultaneous signal, apple for the N and others for the b/g?
dan, on November 18th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
This shows the ignorance of the person who set up the wireless system and the person who posted it and everyone who thought this was funny. It has nothing to do with PC or Mac, it’s the authentication method (WEP) that’s has certain requirements on the length and what characters allowed as part of the password!
Applesucks, on November 18th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
@iMoron. Why are you on a Mac website if you hate Apple so much? Perhaps iTroll would be a more appropriate name.
JustaGuy, on November 18th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
you people are idiots. I have an airport extreme. works just fine with my ps3 and any windows machine that comes into my home office can connect in about 5 seconds with the same password.
wes, on November 18th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
You all sound like idiots. Don’t Apple make PC’s? Microsoft don’t make PC’s.
You’re arguing about Windows against OSX I think – but you’re all pretty stupid, and use stupid soundbytes designed to keep you that way.
I use Windows and OSX, and I think they both suck. Anyone who says differently just doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Ben, on November 19th, 2009 at 10:04 am