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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 138544" data-attributes="member: 2826"><p>Re: X-Air</p><p></p><p></p><p>Behringer has a new iPad update at Apple now and for at least the last week, so we should have new features any day. I hope.</p><p></p><p>The Android is attractive to me because it has that wifi sensing and naming app, and that may be the only reason IF there is an adequate iPad X Air app.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking more about splitting the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels on each router, and think the reason we decided against it is that if you are connected to one and it develops a problem, the router/iPad will switch to the other if they are included in the same name but not if they have separate connections.</p><p></p><p>In other WiFi X Air news, Robert Lofgren posted the following: </p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]I've now checked your wep/wpa concerns with the development team.[/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]While the Microchip wifi module supports WPA in client mode, it does not support it for its access point mode. [/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]According to the information given by the chip manufacturer they do not plan adding that feature, due to internal memory considerations. It is therefor not possible for behringer to implement that functionality, even if they wanted to.[/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]It is recommended that if people are really afraid there is sufficient criminal energy in the audience for hacking into the WEP protected X-AIR mixer, then a properly configured external wifi access point should be used. This also give the added benefit of the 5GHz wifi band that is less suspicious to external interference from mobile phones and like.[/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]Not the answer you were looking for, but I hope this give you guys a better understanding of the current limitation of its implementation."</span></p><p><span style="color: #555555"></span></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[/FONT]</span>To which I asked </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]"Looking closer at the manual sections covering "Access Point" and "WiFi Client" modes, it says that wifi client supports WPA2, which I interpret to mean that the XR's wifi connection to a WPA2 network is also WPA2 and therefore more secure than the Access Point network that the XR creates. Is this right? So it internally has the right stuff in one mode and doesn't have it in the other?[/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]So in a situation where you wanted to locate a remote router closer to the point of operation (noisy wifi environment, line of sight issues, etc.) you could split the distance difference to a point that would reach both your mix position and the XR's wifi. Yes?"</span></p><p><span style="color: #555555"></span></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[/FONT]</span>and he replied</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]"Yes, that sounds right. And the cool thing about such a setup is if the wifi router speaks both 2.4ghz and 5ghz you can run your tablets on 5ghz for its benefit and the wifi router will route the traffic to the 2.4ghz mixer.[/FONT]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]Since both the router and mixer are stationary it will be easier to find and optimum placement of the antennas."</span></p><p><span style="color: #555555"></span></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[/FONT]</span>So if you are concerned about hackers entering your system you will want to use an external router, either connected via Ethernet or via WiFi Client. Or you hardwire your computer into the Ethernet port.</p><p></p><p>"You" being a generic you.</p><p></p><p>And I'd quibble with Robert's use of the word "criminal", but be that as it may. TJ's comments above adequately address the motivations for most hackers IMO.</p><p><span style="color: #555555">[FONT=lucida_granderegular]</span></p><p><span style="color: #555555"></span></p><p><span style="color: #555555">[/FONT]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 138544, member: 2826"] Re: X-Air Behringer has a new iPad update at Apple now and for at least the last week, so we should have new features any day. I hope. The Android is attractive to me because it has that wifi sensing and naming app, and that may be the only reason IF there is an adequate iPad X Air app. I was thinking more about splitting the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels on each router, and think the reason we decided against it is that if you are connected to one and it develops a problem, the router/iPad will switch to the other if they are included in the same name but not if they have separate connections. In other WiFi X Air news, Robert Lofgren posted the following: "[COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]I've now checked your wep/wpa concerns with the development team.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]While the Microchip wifi module supports WPA in client mode, it does not support it for its access point mode. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]According to the information given by the chip manufacturer they do not plan adding that feature, due to internal memory considerations. It is therefor not possible for behringer to implement that functionality, even if they wanted to.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]It is recommended that if people are really afraid there is sufficient criminal energy in the audience for hacking into the WEP protected X-AIR mixer, then a properly configured external wifi access point should be used. This also give the added benefit of the 5GHz wifi band that is less suspicious to external interference from mobile phones and like.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]Not the answer you were looking for, but I hope this give you guys a better understanding of the current limitation of its implementation." [/FONT][/COLOR]To which I asked [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]"Looking closer at the manual sections covering "Access Point" and "WiFi Client" modes, it says that wifi client supports WPA2, which I interpret to mean that the XR's wifi connection to a WPA2 network is also WPA2 and therefore more secure than the Access Point network that the XR creates. Is this right? So it internally has the right stuff in one mode and doesn't have it in the other?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]So in a situation where you wanted to locate a remote router closer to the point of operation (noisy wifi environment, line of sight issues, etc.) you could split the distance difference to a point that would reach both your mix position and the XR's wifi. Yes?" [/FONT][/COLOR]and he replied [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]"Yes, that sounds right. And the cool thing about such a setup is if the wifi router speaks both 2.4ghz and 5ghz you can run your tablets on 5ghz for its benefit and the wifi router will route the traffic to the 2.4ghz mixer.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular]Since both the router and mixer are stationary it will be easier to find and optimum placement of the antennas." [/FONT][/COLOR]So if you are concerned about hackers entering your system you will want to use an external router, either connected via Ethernet or via WiFi Client. Or you hardwire your computer into the Ethernet port. "You" being a generic you. And I'd quibble with Robert's use of the word "criminal", but be that as it may. TJ's comments above adequately address the motivations for most hackers IMO. [COLOR=#555555][FONT=lucida_granderegular] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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