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Some users including myself have been facing this bug a long time now but it appears to be a Firefox 2 and it’s built in password manager bug only (maybe occurs with older FF versions too) not a My Wippies bug.

There’s no problem for instance with FF3, IE or Opera, the WLAN password field is empty as it should be and if you edit other device settings you’ll get them saved without an error of invalid WLAN password(s). There’s no problem with FF2 either if you haven’t saved My Wippies login to FF’s password manager or if you don’t use the built in password manager at all.

The password manager of FF2 seems to think we are working with the same password field on the device settings as we were on the My Wippies login since the domain is the same (my.wippies.com) and FF2 automatically offers the My Wippies login password for the 1st WLAN password field. Now when we try to save the changes that we have made to other device settings, we are actually trying to save a new WLAN password too with empty “New password again” field, thanks to FF2.

Apparently the password manager has been improved in FF3 to be more accurate (based on the whole URL) since with FF3 the WLAN password field is empty.

If you use FF2 the easiest way around the issue is to just clear the WLAN password field every time you need to edit other device settings, with an empty field the WLAN password is not considered to be saved.

Here’s some “new” features that have not been in there too long. Probably the features have been added some time ago already but there hasn’t been any official notification about them.

1) Editable spam filter options like white lists and black lists: My Wippies > Email > click the mailbox name (not the address) > Spam filter

2) Forward email to another address: My Wippies > Email > click the mailbox address > Forward to address

3) WLAN Guest network visits made by you (I guess this has been in there for some time by now, but at least I haven’t notice there is a log for this): My Wippies > Device Settings > Wippies usernames / Modify > Wippies network visits

Edit: This feature has been removed later on. There were technical issues with displaying the log correctly, so Wippies staff gave up on keeping the log in there.

Yesterday, October 10th, the Wippies DynDNS (your_name.wippies.net) was activated and confirmed to be working. You can find it from My Wippies (Device Settings > Misc. Settings > Dynamic DNS). It adds an A record to name services and to get some use of it you need to add port forward for the wanted port, whatever you might want to use it for.

For instance, if you’re running a web server behind your Homebox, forward port 80 (the pre-made HTTP port forward) to your web server LAN IP and then you’re able to access your home web server with your Wippies DynDNS address.