Are you aware that it's a car... Sounds like you need a laptop or something
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SYNC: astounding stupidity! Caution, rant ahead...
I so steamed, I'm posting this both on here and on the Fiesta Faction.
I'm flabbergasted! Astounded, stupefied, dumbstruck, astonished.
I would say surprised, but considering that Microsoft is the author of this software, I shouldn't be.
The cause of all this consternation happened when I tried to connect to the internet with my new 2014 ST that has SYNC and the (in)famous My Ford Touch system. I was parked in my garage and followed all the screens to find my home's internet (via the home's wireless router), no problem. Naturally, before the router will let me access the internet, I needed to log in with my password.
Here's where the problems started: imagine that (pretty) large screen with a touch keyboard and a ton of blank space. No numeric keypad and no symbols means you have to keep switching to different built-in keyboards for each upper-case or lower-case letter, another keyboard for numbers, and yet another for symbols. So, I'm plugging along and when I got to the tenth character of the password, the system wouldn't let me enter in any more.
After a few more unsuccessful attempt's I decided to call Fords SYNC help line (800-392-4040). To make a long story shorter, I was told that the SYNC system has a built-in limitation of ten characters for a password length. To get access to my home router, I would have to reduce it's password length to ten characters maximum. WHICH I REFUSE TO DO.
To those of you who are puzzled by my dismay, please be informed that a ten character password on an internet router is wholly inadequate. A common password length that gets automatically generated by a good router is sixty-four characters long. Anything less is an invitation to hackers to get into your system.
Needless to say, I gave the SYNC operator an earful and invited them into the twenty-first century. Ten characters might have been a fine password twenty years ago, but it's a criminally stupid limitation nowadays.
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FORD! ARE YOU LISTENING???
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I'm flabbergasted! Astounded, stupefied, dumbstruck, astonished.
I would say surprised, but considering that Microsoft is the author of this software, I shouldn't be.
The cause of all this consternation happened when I tried to connect to the internet with my new 2014 ST that has SYNC and the (in)famous My Ford Touch system. I was parked in my garage and followed all the screens to find my home's internet (via the home's wireless router), no problem. Naturally, before the router will let me access the internet, I needed to log in with my password.
Here's where the problems started: imagine that (pretty) large screen with a touch keyboard and a ton of blank space. No numeric keypad and no symbols means you have to keep switching to different built-in keyboards for each upper-case or lower-case letter, another keyboard for numbers, and yet another for symbols. So, I'm plugging along and when I got to the tenth character of the password, the system wouldn't let me enter in any more.
After a few more unsuccessful attempt's I decided to call Fords SYNC help line (800-392-4040). To make a long story shorter, I was told that the SYNC system has a built-in limitation of ten characters for a password length. To get access to my home router, I would have to reduce it's password length to ten characters maximum. WHICH I REFUSE TO DO.
To those of you who are puzzled by my dismay, please be informed that a ten character password on an internet router is wholly inadequate. A common password length that gets automatically generated by a good router is sixty-four characters long. Anything less is an invitation to hackers to get into your system.
Needless to say, I gave the SYNC operator an earful and invited them into the twenty-first century. Ten characters might have been a fine password twenty years ago, but it's a criminally stupid limitation nowadays.
FORD! ARE YOU LISTENING???
<END RANT>
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Do you often get in your car at home to use the internet? I have computers to do that. 
Once you drive out of range of the router (which won't take long) you will no longer have connectivity anyway. I don't really see the use for it... Maybe if you're parked somewhere on a trip and find free wifi and need to get on the internet but don't have a phone or laptop handy.
As far as password size, 64 characters is quite overkill. If you have your router set at WPA2 as it should then a 15 character password should be plenty adequate. My password is a 24 character sentence made out of capital and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. I wouldn't even be able to guess my password and I made it. And a hacker would have one heck of a time hacking it. That being said, yes a 10 character limit is quite silly because even my apparently tiny password is 14 characters longer, but really I can't think of any real use for it...
Once you drive out of range of the router (which won't take long) you will no longer have connectivity anyway. I don't really see the use for it... Maybe if you're parked somewhere on a trip and find free wifi and need to get on the internet but don't have a phone or laptop handy.As far as password size, 64 characters is quite overkill. If you have your router set at WPA2 as it should then a 15 character password should be plenty adequate. My password is a 24 character sentence made out of capital and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. I wouldn't even be able to guess my password and I made it. And a hacker would have one heck of a time hacking it. That being said, yes a 10 character limit is quite silly because even my apparently tiny password is 14 characters longer, but really I can't think of any real use for it...
Thanks No problem getting the volume down. It's just strange... that it seems to always trigger when shutting the car off and even if my Radio volume is currently very low, it defaults to max volume as soon as the voice command prompt kicks in. I'll definitely give the advanced option a try though. Thanks for the input.
No problem getting the volume down. It's just strange... that it seems to always trigger when shutting the car off and even if my Radio volume is currently very low, it defaults to max volume as soon as the voice command prompt kicks in. I'll definitely give the advanced option a try though. Thanks for the input.
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