marvin Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Hi Guys Just wondering if anyone has bought any Amazon Kindle for use in schools? Did you manage to setup the wifi connection successfuly? I tried one this morning with no luck in connecting it and i can't find the proxy settings options! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
jamin100 Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I dont think you can set a proxy on a kindle, thats why we brought the 3G versions
plexer Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Depending on your wifi security that bit will work however you cannot set a proxy server on a kindle. Ben
marvin Posted October 13, 2011 Author Posted October 13, 2011 We are an EMBC site so i take it there is no point having a go at connecting the wifi? I have WPA-PSK TKIP encryption set on the access points.
mavhc Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 Setup a transparent proxy, there's no real way to set up a proxy, or to automatically set any wifi keys Amazon Kindle - MobileRead Forums is the best place to search for such info
Michael Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 I've setup a Kindle using WPA2-AES security and it works absolutely fine. I have to agree with others, I don't re-call seeing an option for proxy settings. The alternative is to bypass WiFi and download books using a USB cable connected to a PC. It's also a good idea to switch off WiFi, as the battery life will last upto 3 months.
CyberNerd Posted October 15, 2011 Posted October 15, 2011 I can't really remember the details but a colleague attempted to setup a kindle on wifi; I recall that it had difficulty with certain characters in the SSID - spaces,dashes or underscores perhaps
Blue_Cookeh Posted October 16, 2011 Posted October 16, 2011 I can't really remember the details but a colleague attempted to setup a kindle on wifi; I recall that it had difficulty with certain characters in the SSID - spaces,dashes or underscores perhaps My Kindle had no issues with spaces in the SSID.
Michael Posted October 17, 2011 Posted October 17, 2011 In general any SSID should just be one word, with no spaces or special characters to avoid problems. Most if not all decent access points allow you to create multiple SSIDs, so you could experiment with different names. It does amaze me how companies seem to forget about proxies though. When I last checked Microsoft's XBOX doesn't support proxies, but Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii do! 1
CyberNerd Posted October 17, 2011 Posted October 17, 2011 It does amaze me how companies seem to forget about proxies though. When I last checked Microsoft's XBOX doesn't support proxies, but Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii do! yeah, MS seems to be rapidy departing from the corporate market (win8 and the forayer with opening xbox shacks opposite apple stores) , forgetting proxies. Whilst Google are entering the same market, also forgetting about proxies (android). Clearly the IT industry has already decided for us; BYOD and transparent proxying is the way forward ?
GrumbleDook Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Transparent proxies are becoming an increasing need, but have a look at your managed wireless solution to see if they will operate as a transparent proxy and forward traffic to your specified proxy. When we had a demo for local schools of Ruckus kit last year this question was asked and it could be done. I know similar can be done on Cisco offerings, but not sure on other solutions.
carsonchan Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 It seems a little difficult to the newbie, could not connect directly?
sted Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 It seems a little difficult to the newbie, could not connect directly? if you have a proxy no it dosent support them there are no settings for you to enter
TechSupp Posted November 18, 2011 Posted November 18, 2011 Transparent proxies are becoming an increasing need, but have a look at your managed wireless solution to see if they will operate as a transparent proxy and forward traffic to your specified proxy. When we had a demo for local schools of Ruckus kit last year this question was asked and it could be done. I know similar can be done on Cisco offerings, but not sure on other solutions. Just been given a couple to setup and quickly forund the no proxy issue but....we have just had a new Ruckus wireless network installed, did anyone know if this could be done on Ruckus i.e. to set up a transparent proxy and any ideas how to do it?
Michael Posted November 20, 2011 Posted November 20, 2011 This is interesting - I was speaking with someone (who will remain nameless) recently and I did mention about transparent proxies. It's very easy to deploy proxy settings in a Windows environment, however some schools and businesses are increasingly using multiple platforms or devices. Ensuring proxy settings are enabled (if it's even supported) is becoming increasingly difficult. Plus many users have Smartphones on the move, and although they can connect to internal WiFi, they cannot actually use it due to proxy settings not being entered. It's been mentioned to me that transparent proxies are less secure than standard proxy setups. What's your opinion of this?
tom_newton Posted November 20, 2011 Posted November 20, 2011 Not really "less secure" per se, but it is harder to do authentication on a tproxy, you tend to have to rely on getting an ip:username pair from some login thang (could be from your wireless setup?) and holding it - of course you either need a way to refresh it, or guarantee of binning it when a new user logs in. Managing SSL is also harder with transparent proxies, but if you have a modern browser AND a decent proxy, you'll be ok. Transparent proxying in general is a pain in the butt, but one we are stuck with.
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