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I took phone to a local Apple Store. It worked fine (their network has no WEP, WPA, etc.). But it worked well. Store people told me they were using Airport N/G Access Point.
This was my first evidence that it wasn't just a poorly written WiFi module in the iPhone.
Clearly, not tested on many WiFi devices, but I had a different and newer Access Point, and Airlink101 AP431W. I hooked up the new AP, setup with no encryption, worked fine. Then tried WPA (WEP is not even an option in the newer AP), and it also worked fine.
I can access the Airlink AP431W through walls in the house and up to about 75 feet away. It's on a shelf in the living/dining room (center of activity)
PS: In the process, I checked settings, timings, etc., but nothing fixed the original AP421W problem until I swapped it for the newer AP431W.
Hope this helps
Comments:
Nov 17, 2008
- Since upgrading my wireless AP, and using WPA, I've had no problems with WiFi on the iPhone.
In my case, the entire problem was WEP on an older AP.
The other solutions may be fine, but if the AP you're using is not cooperating, no amount of iPhone fiddling is going to make it work, the locus of the problem is the AP itself, not the iPhone.
Mar 28, 2009
- Need to use a newer Access Point with WPA PSK, works great.
Mar 29, 2009
- How do I stop getting e-mail about this problem. For a while I thought it was helpful, but now FixYa is just sending me e-mail everytime someone posts something about this, and I can't seem to stop the e-mail messages.
The only apparent alternative is to cancel ALL e-mail from FixYa.
They need a radio button that adds to the "Comment, I have the same problem" -- how about adding "I no longer have this problem" then hit the submit button.