06.30.07
iPhone Wifi Tips
Since WIFI was one of the biggest features for me, it was frustrating that the first 15 hours I owned the iPhone I could not get Wifi working. I figured a few things out on my own, and also got some great advice from others. I am compiling those here for others who might have trouble with their home WIFI.
1) WEP Password. If you are using WEP encryption on your network, you have two choices, WEP Password, or WEP hex or ASCII. Notice the little bar at the top that says “WEP Password” with an arrow next to it. If you are entering the Hexadecimal code for your WEP network, you need to toggle it to “WEP Hex or ASCII”.
2) WEP Hexadecimal Password part 2. Another problem I had, even with the above toggle was it still would not take my code. If you are still having this problem, preface your code with a “$” so you might enter: “$D0EBDEED2101555CF5123AEB56A” This worked for me.
3) WIFI Still Not Working? This was me. My WIFI was still not working. My phone would only use the EDGE network. Fortunately Mav over on EverythingIphone.com was able to create a list of steps that got me working. Very much appreciated Mav.
A) Remove yourself from your Network. Go into your network and select “Forget This Network.”
B) Turn WIFI Off. From them Settings Menu for WIFI, you need to toggle the Blue On Button to the Grey Off Position.
C) Reset/Reboot your Wireless Router. Wait for your Router to fully reboot.
D) Turn WIFI back on, on your iPhone.
E) Re-Connect to your WIFI Network. Re-enter your encryption information as needed.
I have been forced to use the EDGE network since I had the phone, and it is not horribly slow, but it was very nice to finally get the phone sailing on my WIFI and using my DSL connection. Very well done. In all honesty all of those above steps should not be necessary so hopefully there is a bug that affects some people that is preventing the devices from properly communicating without a full reset. My 2Wire router has been unbelievably reliable, and I throw all kinds of devices at it, and have never had to reboot it to get one to connect. Regardless, I was able to get it working. Again thanks to all those who provided the tips, suggestions etc. If anyone has any more wifi related tips let me know and I can add them to the list.
Great phone but a few problems...! Anyone Else? - Page 3 - Everything iPhone said,
June 30, 2007 at 2:49 pm
[...] Originally Posted by Austinsdc Check out this thread for the wifi problem http://www.everythingiphone.com/foru…king-3001.html Also another good site that fixed mine for me… http://www.anyiphone.com/2007/06/30/iphone-wifi-tips/ [...]
Mike Hatala said,
July 1, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I don’t usually respond to postings, but I felt that I needed to to this one. I just got my iPhone yesterday and have been fighting the Wi-Fi connection to my home network.
Thanks to your posting, I was able to connect in a matter of minutes.
Thanks again. Great stuff.
Darwin said,
July 1, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Using the ISP DNS server ip in the network settings worked for me (changed from 192.168.1.1 to 68.76.xx.xx) something like that, but now it works great.
Ryan said,
July 1, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Tip #1 did it for me! I’m using ASCII so i had to make that change. Thanks for the tip! You just sped up my screwing around!
freeborn said,
July 1, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Could not make the iPhone work with my brand new Verizon router (the one given to FiOS subscribers), but the tip number 2 was a solution for me. Thanks much!
The Map - Everything iPhone said,
July 1, 2007 at 6:47 pm
[...] Originally Posted by Stargrrl I went back to mess with it some more and realized I was double tapping the screen which made that happen. If you use the pinching method it seems to work just fine! Even without the connection , which unfortunately I can’t get to accept my network passphrase no idea why. I took a drive through town and it was connecting to all kind of open networks, I watched YouTub in the car all the way there and back, so damn cool Hope you weren’t driving As far as your network, try this [...]
Brian McNitt said,
July 1, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Steps A-E worked for me as well (D-Link WBR-1310 wireless router). Thanks for sharing.
jeremy said,
July 1, 2007 at 7:33 pm
can you please help me with the following. I am terminally ill and really need help with this. Thanks:
can anyone please tell me why I am getting the following message when I try to access my e-mail from WI-FI, but not on the edge:the connection to the server imap.aol.com failed. Like I said, I can retrieve my e-mail and the browser when I have the WiFI option set to “off”.
mc said,
July 1, 2007 at 7:44 pm
That is interesting Jeremy. I don’t have an answer for you off the top of my head, but I suspect there is some routing issue with the WIFI and the AOL mail server. I assume you are able to use the AOL mail server from your desktop PC through the same router?
David said,
July 1, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I went through all of this and it still isn’t working. It shows a checkmark by the network, and I have signal by the Att logo on the top left of the screen, but when I try to open a page it says that it cant find the server. I dont want to throw this thing….so I think i better take a break..
David said,
July 1, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Hey i think I got mine!! I changed my WEP from 64 bit to 128 bit and it seemed to work! Many of you were already using the 128 bit so maybe this has something to do with it all. Its not much faster than Edge here at home, but works internet is much faster…we’ll see tomorrow!
David said,
July 1, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Shouldn’t have opened my big mouth. Aparently the iphone must store some sort of cookies like a regular pc does, because the pages I was previoulsy looking at were opening fine. Any new one still wont work….. I QUIT!!!
Brad Knowles said,
July 2, 2007 at 3:13 am
Don’t use WEP. It’s not anywhere near secure. If you use WEP, an attacker can 0wn your network in less than two minutes, and it doesn’t matter what length of keys you use.
Outside of a corporate environment, the original WPA is worse than WEP.
WPA2 is currently believed to reasonably secure, and yes the iPhone does WPA2 — I’m using it right now.
mc said,
July 2, 2007 at 9:16 am
David - What kind of router do you have?
Brad I agree with you that WEP is not secure from someone who wants to get in and get at you, but as you mentioned neither is WPA for the most part.
The real issue for most people is just to keep others from using their network incidently or for the causal person from snooping around. The reality is most people have a mix of devices, and a lot of older devices don’t do anything but WEP so if you have one WEP device you need, you are hamstrung unless you run multiple networks. Something that is just not going to happen for the average consumer.
mc said,
July 2, 2007 at 9:16 am
By the way good to know that the iPhone does WPA2.
David said,
July 2, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Thanks for all the info…I didn’t know WEP was so easy to crack. I am using a linksys router…and at work a 2wire…and the work one is working today. All I had to do was put a $ in front of the key. At home, I tried it at lunch and it didn’t work. Any [additional] help would be grealy appreciated.
David said,
July 2, 2007 at 3:49 pm
And of course…now my wifi at work isn’t working. Awesome..I was hoping this would happen.
David said,
July 2, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Ok I reset it and let it sit there for a while and its working at work again…so maybe it just needed reset. I’m off in half a hour and i’ll be working on this at home for a few hours im sure.
David said,
July 2, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Ok guys…dont mean to buy but I keep posting my progress just in case someone else has this issue. iphone tech was no help…simply dont know how to trouble shoot it yet. So i started messing around with the network settings and i found that the only addresses i could change were the dns numbers on the iphone….so i deleted them….and now its working at my house. i have no idea…we’ll see how long this lasts…but if it works then im happy!
mc said,
July 2, 2007 at 7:13 pm
David,
Yeah in most cases you can probably safely stick with DHCP settings. At one point in trying to get my set up to work, I did use static settings for all of them under the static tab. I would not advise that, unless you are experienced, as it is not really well-defined and not having all the information filled out correctly could potentially mess up routing and make it not work.
Hopefully it keeps working for you. Please let us know. Mine has been solid since I got it synched up.
iPhone WiFi on the Move | Any iPhone said,
July 2, 2007 at 7:19 pm
[...] with getting WiFi to work initially, I was bummed. You can read about what I did to fix it here. Regardless, now we move on and really start to see how WiFi is going to work with the iPhone. [...]
rtd said,
July 3, 2007 at 6:41 am
For some reason I can connect fine on my home wireless network, but when I go to Starbucks or some random connection at work, I get the wi-fi symbol but can’t connect to YouTube or Safari. Anyone else have this problem and if so…how did you fix it?!?
Thanks!
David said,
July 4, 2007 at 9:46 am
I had read a post that said that an older router might have trouble connecting to the iPhone because it is so new. I went to best buy, and got a buffalo router, and it works perfectly! Router was only $35!
Juan said,
July 4, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Worked flawlessly. Thanks!
chris said,
July 5, 2007 at 5:56 am
I finally got my wifi working…I have a 2wire 3800HGV-B router and tried the 1st step above and got it working…thanks guys
Moose
Song Z Huang said,
July 5, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Hey, I wanted to chime in and say thanks as well. I had been putzing with it for a day and a half. It would connect to the network and then I couldn’t browse anywhere. I tried manually entering the DNS, etc. with no luck. I could of sworn that I tried the WPA Hex before, but it this time it worked. Now, the phone is useful again. I have both EDGE and EVDO phones. EVDO just kicks EDGE’s rear any day of the week. With wifi, it’s bearable again. But now I wonder why I would carry around a iPhone with Wifi when I could have my laptop when I am in a wifi zone….oh well. I’m going to mess with it for a while and then I’ll have more impressions of the usability of EDGE.
rickdeez said,
July 5, 2007 at 11:04 pm
After two days on the phone with verizon and apple trying to solve my wifi connection troubles on my FIOS home network, I tried entering the WEP password under the hex or ascii password with the dollar sign preceding it works like a charm!!!
Thanks
Anderson said,
July 6, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Its true the WIFI on Iphone works well under WEP ASCii HEX, just entring on that WEP form and put back the password works at the time your put the password and works very well but the battery goes down fast…
OK
Ariana said,
July 6, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Look guys, I tried every single thing on here and nothing works. Neither Apple or Linksys can help me. It’s midnight and here I am venting in this post. Can someone please recommened something else? I about to run over my iPhone, lol, well…just being a little dramatic. I paid a lot of money to do that, lol. Guys, please help!!!!!!!!
Sean said,
July 6, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Thanks for the great tip! My iPhone kept trying to connect using Edge when in Safari, so I followed Mav’s tip above, plus I entered my 2wire router password in hex/ascii mode as mentioned by a few people at EverythingIphone.com. Now it works fine.
MT3 said,
July 7, 2007 at 10:27 am
Thanks for taking time out of your day to help helpless people like myself. After skipping over step 2 and trying everything else first, nothing worked. So decided to go and try step 2 and it worked. Thanks again for posting this and everyone else for giving their status.
God bless..
MT3 said,
July 7, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Still had a problem after a while so I searched some more.
This helped me..
http://andrewescobar.com/archive/2007/07/06/change-iphones-wi-fi-dns-settings-to-connect-to-the-internet/
Good luck to those still trying.
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donsnyc said,
July 8, 2007 at 8:38 am
Thank you!!! I thought I was just crazy for not being able to connect to my home network. The toggle to WEP Hex worked for me. Thanks!
quixote said,
July 8, 2007 at 8:12 pm
After 5 days of being stuck with not being able to connect with my WiFi at home, I changed the WEP password to ASCII and zoom, zoom, zoom…
WiFi is awsome; Ten times as fast as Edge!!
EJL said,
July 9, 2007 at 8:40 am
FYI…
I have a new IPHONE and a Cisco autonomous Aironet environment with b/g access points using 128 WEP.
We were having issues connecting it…and we tried the $ before the wep key and it worked.
Thanks,
EJL
Joe said,
July 9, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I’ve been struggling with my home Wi-Fi network(Verizon FIOS) for days - was on the phone with Verizon, talked with the “Genius” at the Apple store, all with out any luck until I read your post. As much as this iPhone cost, I should have realized the solution was a “$” (#2 above).
Thank you for taking the time to post this.
-DrJ
Hobbes said,
July 10, 2007 at 12:50 pm
All of this is great when I’m at home. But when I’m at the local internet cafes, I have the same problem. Joins network just fine because it is “free”. Shows up as connected. First internet page will open and then after that either can’t open because too many windows open or safari can’t find the server. So what do I do to actually use wi-fi outside of my house?
svend said,
July 11, 2007 at 6:24 am
greetings… I also was very fustrated that I could not get on my home network (belkin g router, no security… with 2 macs connected, 1 wirelessly and one ethernet)… I tried all the things above with no luck, even though the iphone says you have a strong signal and you are connected! So… here is what I did to get it working… i went into the iphone and erased the DNS settings, which for some reason had an extra string of digits that i didn’t see at first, but once i started deleteing digits, more came into view?! … anyway… i then re-entered just the 2 DNS strings, and BINGO… i was able to go online with safari, yahoo weather, etc…!! very strange!
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July 11, 2007 at 5:14 pm
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sailomb said,
July 13, 2007 at 10:05 am
I had an old Dlink router model DI-514 (802.11b only) that had issues with internet connectivity on the iPhone. I tried all of the trouble shooting steps:
1. Hex/Acsii
2. $ in front of password
3. DNS settings deleted and/or with 4.2.2.2
4. reset the devices
5. update firmware on router
6. no secruity setting
7. and on and on
I would get one or 2 webpages and then it would not work on iPhone anymore. I have 5 computers and a Wii running off the D-link router and all seems ok (although my work VPN did not connect wirelessly only works when I hooked up directly to the router). So I thought it was time to replace the aging thing. The local Officemax had the Dlink WBR-2310 (802.11g) for sale for $40 so that is what I went with. And after the install, the iPhone worked perfectly. I did not change my settings from previous so I am still using 4.2.2.2 as the DNS setting though. I am also using the exact same security settings WEP 128 bit hex password. Since it works great for the last 2 days, I have not mess with the settings. I’ve just been enjoying youTube and sufing the web on the faster connection. I love the iPhone even more now.
Thanks for all for the troubleshoothing steps. I am surprise that apple has not release any official word on this issue. So if all else fails, replace your router.
Nutdhanai said,
July 15, 2007 at 2:36 am
I had the wifi issue.. but may have found an easier way to fix.. (mind you, i am using activation-hacked iPhone, sim removed)
On your iPhone, go to setttings, general, reset, select - reset network settings
after that your wifi should work as usual..
let us know hte results.
thanks
Noah Wiles said,
July 15, 2007 at 3:37 am
Holy crap what a pain in the @$$ that was!! Thanks for the post on this one!!! I ended up needing to use step 1 and step 2 and that still didn’t do it for me. A step 3 that i needed to do on top of steps 1 and 2 was to enter all my information manually from the “Static” page rather than let DHCP do it automatically. I had to go to the Yahoo website and log in with my account to find the DNS information. For all you SBC Yahoo users here are the DNS addresses: 68.94.156.1(primary) & 68.94.157.1(secondary)
Even then I was having issues until I figured out that I needed to remove the third DNS address i had entered which was the address of my router (192.168.2.1). Now my connection is super stable and the pages are loading hella fast!!
Scott said,
July 15, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Thank you so much…after #$^!ing with wifi for longer than I should have, you helped me. Many thanks….
Les said,
July 17, 2007 at 6:04 pm
i did all of the above and i have a BA in IT so getting something to work like an iphone should be easy. i did everything and my wifi just would not work. simply put. i called apple that night and they had another one (a loner) on my door before i left for work the next morning! i mailed mine back for repairs and they are going to fix it free of charge! I would suggest buying the applecare for the phone when it comes out cause apple has the best costumer service i have ever delt with.
J Snyd said,
July 18, 2007 at 6:24 am
I have tried every suggestion on Earth. I can get wifi to work at panera and other places, but not at home.
Chris said,
July 18, 2007 at 10:56 pm
I was at one bar on WI-FI, now I’m at full strength…thanks a bunch. I imagine Apple will have this fixed up in the next software update. One other tip for step (4) that helped me was to NOT select my network from the automatic list after turning WIFI back on. Instead I selected “Other”, and typed in my network name. This allowed me to directly specify the security type directly (WPA2 in my case). For some reason this helped.
Claudia Lopez said,
July 22, 2007 at 2:46 pm
BEST HELP!!! SOLVED THE PROBLEM INMEDIATLY WITH THE $ SYMBOL.
THANKS, THANKS, THANKS!!!!!!!
LeftCoastLisa said,
July 22, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Thank you, thank you!
2Wire Router Model# 2700HG-D / QWest/MSN DSL Service Provider
My iPhone was connecting using Edge and would not recognize my home network at all unless I turned what little (WEP) security I have off. I followed Mav’s tip above, plus I entered my 2Wire router password in hex/ascii mode as mentioned by a few people here. Now it is working fine.
Good luck to the rest of you!
LeftCoastLisa
Kevin said,
July 27, 2007 at 5:49 pm
This is how I fixed my network issue instantly.
For many networks, I couldn’t get my iPhone to connect — this really bothered me because sometimes I could acces wifi and sometimes I couldn’t. Open networks never seemed to be an issue, but security-enabled networks caused me a huge headache.
Try this:
1) On your iPhone, navigate to Settings > Wi-Fi
2) Select the network you wish to connect with and clicked “Forget this Network” to start from scratch
3) Navigate back to the main Wi-Fi menu
4) Selected “Other…” to manually enter in my network name and password information
5) After manually entering the network name and password information, you may be able to successfully connect
Worked for me! I didn’t have to turn off my router or the wi-fi on my iPhone for this to work.
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Tuan Dang said,
August 18, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Can anybody help me with this problem!!??!! I cannot access my wifi and it is all grey out so I cant even turn it on/off. Any suggestions??? I have tried countless times to reboot it with itunes but still no luck!!! Thanks
Subhash said,
August 27, 2007 at 11:09 am
I am thinking about getting an iPhone, and had a question.
Do you know if there is anyway to connect to a Wi-Fi network that uses Windows credentials?
Thanks!
Carlos said,
August 27, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Im usually roaming internationally so I want to make sure that I only use the internet through the Wi-fi connection in my iPhone. Any way I can make sure I only use wi-fi to connect to the Internet?
Chris said,
August 30, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Those steps worked for me too! thanks
Paul B said,
September 2, 2007 at 9:30 am
To get mine up and running i needed to do the $ in front of my wep key and than had to do the followinr:
Nutdhanai said,
July 15, 2007 at 2:36 am
I had the wifi issue.. but may have found an easier way to fix.. (mind you, i am using activation-hacked iPhone, sim removed)
On your iPhone, go to setttings, general, reset, select - reset network settings
after that your wifi should work as usual..
let us know hte results.
thanks
Brooks said,
September 16, 2007 at 10:05 pm
I am still having trouble with connecting my iPhone to my home WiFi.
I’ve entered the long password at least a dozen times and it hasn’t worked. and I’ve tried all the steps above and still haven’t gotten anything. Anyway I could get some help?
graham said,
September 20, 2007 at 8:57 am
I’m running the 1.02 firmware, independence activated and SIM unlocked and i dont see the option to switch between HEX and ASCII keys for wep.. my issue is that i see the network, enter the password, join it, but get a AutoIP (169.254.x.x) IP address…
anyone else having this particular issue?
AK said,
September 22, 2007 at 7:47 pm
i had the issue where my iphone was able to connect to my router with the passkey but there was no DHCP, so i had to provide static IP and it started working, but this wont be useful when you go to the public HS where you dont know what IP range they might be using.
This is what worked for me.
1) Sync the Iphone
2) Settings>general>Reset>reset network setting
once that was done and I gave the passkey for my home router, DHCP was able to get the IP…..:). (Make sure that before you do any of this your MAC (Wi-Fi) address is being seen.
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alfredguo said,
October 3, 2007 at 10:28 pm
thank you very much. now i have connecting my phone to my home Wifi.
Simsim said,
October 4, 2007 at 1:56 pm
“1) WEP Password. If you are using WEP encryption on your network, you have two choices, WEP Password, or WEP hex or ASCII. Notice the little bar at the top that says “WEP Password” with an arrow next to it. If you are entering the Hexadecimal code for your WEP network, you need to toggle it to “WEP Hex or ASCII”.”
The “little bar at the top” that says WEP password with an arrow next to it is no where to be seen in my iphone wi-fi settings. I need to change it to hex WEP but I don’t see this little bar anywhere to change it to that.
bla_zer323 said,
October 5, 2007 at 8:20 am
Can somebody help me, Im in Canada and I just got my unlocked iphone, but everytime im trying to connect to the safari, it said
“Could not activate Edge: You not suscribed to Edge”
can somedody please help so that i can fix it
Diego said,
October 11, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Hey guys,
I jsut have a quick question that I’m sure someone will be able to clarify for me. I’m having trouble getting the iphone to switch from EDGE to Wi-Fi. When I select a Wi-Fi network to connect to, it says its connected and even shows the signal strength next to the name of the network (eg. “linksys” and little radar image next to it lights up blue and name has check mark next to it), but the icon on the top of the screen rarely, if ever, actually switches to the little radar thing. I connect at home maybe 5 out of 10 attempts and have been able to get it to “switch” to wi-fi at a few randomn hotspots, but not consistently. Any thoughts?
carlos said,
October 17, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Only way for me to work it is disable DES. No way for running with DES (neither 64 or 128).
I have tried with $ and 0x at the beginnig, but no way.
Any idea? Thanks.
Vicktor Hellsing said,
October 26, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Thanks problema resolvido.
Solução em Português.
Solution:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305715-pt-br
Resumo:
Além dos procedimentos citados no linkacima.
tive que mudar o meu DNS para o do Yahoo. que é
68.94.156.1(primary) & 68.94.157.1(secondary).
It´s work. Ahhhh utilizo WEP e não precisou digitar $ no password.
Dave Reid said,
October 30, 2007 at 4:15 am
Hi having a problem connecting to a network that requires a username as well as a password any help?
krish said,
November 8, 2007 at 11:08 am
hey ppl, just bought an iphone 2 weeks back, i have DLink ADSL 2+ Router (GLB502T) connected to my desktop thru ethernet, and my desktop has a network adapter card, earlier i was able to surf the net with my iphone by connecting thru wifi to my desktop, nowadays the safari browser starts shwing the ‘cnt find the server error’, i dont use any kind of passwrds (open connection), my fone connects to my desktop thru wifi (shws the icon on the top) but am unable to surf the net
any suggestions
BS said,
November 10, 2007 at 6:47 am
it worked!!!!
have been waiting to get it on and thanks to the tips it has
thanks!
Achim said,
November 10, 2007 at 7:42 am
Worked great for my new german iPhone (1.1.2) with my Fritz!Box WLAN Router.
Thanks!
Berns said,
November 15, 2007 at 2:43 am
Hi Guys,
How about using My Computer Airport, so that i could share my internet connection to iPhone? Any suggestions, the iPhone connects already to the computer the problem is that it cannot find the server.
I’m using PPOE (ethernet) and also another VSAT connection thru a router.
VSAT-Server-Router(thru the whole building)-Airport Express.
Connects thru Airport Express but same problem with Airport computer no internet connection in iPhone. Tried using an open DNS doesnt work.
Any Suggestions?
rommel said,
December 4, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Hi, I just got my i phone. not sure if you can download files and store in in the iphone’s hard drive.Thanks
Bob said,
December 12, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Thanks for the tip. It worked great. Something else I figured out that might be of help to others. Turn WiFi off if you’re not using it, saves battery. Turn it on when you need it and Safari is blazingly fast. Also, to change the homepage to something useful, like http://www.google.com/m
the mobile user page for Google, just go to that page by typing the address then return there before you shut off Safari and turn off wifi.
Safari defaults to the last page you visited as the startup page. You can also add that page to your bookmarks should you never need it again.
Happy said,
January 7, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Is there anyway to use wifi without having a wireless router in your house or is that the only way?
Lamar said,
January 21, 2008 at 2:12 am
I JUST GOT MY I IPHONE AND CANT UNLOCK IT
Lamar said,
January 21, 2008 at 2:12 am
I JUST GOT MY IPHONE AND CANT SEEM TO UNLOCK IT
Sven said,
January 24, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Great Tips!!!! have been messing for over 1 hour , now it worx!!!
Beemme said,
January 24, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Wifi in ipod touch makes it quite a gadget!
Buck said,
January 26, 2008 at 5:56 am
A through E got my phone reconnected to wifi. Imagine that. It worked. It really worked. Thank you… and may you be richly rewarded in not only this life but the Life to come.
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Nick George said,
February 1, 2008 at 10:39 pm
the $ in front of the hexadec. key worked!! Thanks a bunch …it only took me an hr
HOZEFA HUSSAIN said,
February 4, 2008 at 8:08 pm
hi i can conect to my wifi everywhr the problem that i face it that my fone doesn not autoconnect to wifi. i have to enter the password everytime i wana use wifi and alsoonce i connect and as soon as my phone auto locks after 5 mins the wifi gets diconnected … what should i do can some1 pls help pls email me the reply pls..
chai said,
February 11, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hi all.. i juz want to say thank u to mc for the tip#1 given. Now, i can surf internet on my iphone using wifi conn..
hope said,
February 17, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I follwed the steps… except rebooting my wireless router… i could connect to WiFi on my iphone… thanks guys.
Peter said,
February 23, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I use 1 airport-expres with my ipone to get internet works perfectly.
When I use my airport - expres and iphone by a frend of me, than it works
not. the airport lamp is green and wifi is working, but I get a error “edge”
and cann’t find server.
Who Knows the solution?
Peter VC
thesamenio said,
March 1, 2008 at 8:36 am
I flippin need help
So my schools wifi is not secured, but no matter what i do.. i keep getting message that safari cant connect to the server. Ive heard that updating to 1.1.4 would do the trick.. another version that i have heard is that there are some patches you are able to get in order to fix this problem.
Jf said,
March 3, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Thanks Paul B for your help !
I was almost throughing my iphone by the windows !
Now works !
I just follow the step of:
go to setttings, general, reset, select - reset network settings
Thank again
Jf said,
March 3, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Thanks paul
very good !
Work now !
I just followed:
On your iPhone, go to setttings, general, reset, select - reset network settings
thank again
Steve said,
March 6, 2008 at 8:33 am
can’t figure out how to toggle WEP to WEP hex or ASCII??? where is this located?
tolik said,
March 11, 2008 at 1:12 am
What worked for me was first entering the password phrase, then getting CANNOT connect message, then entering WEP, and then finally connecting! Worked fine for both of the iPhones I’ve tried.
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March 23, 2008 at 10:16 am
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Peter said,
March 25, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Great advice, all is working superbly well on my brand new 16GB iphone.
I was looking for hours before I found this posting.
thanks,
jacal said,
April 2, 2008 at 11:00 am
we have two iphone at the house but when the other one is connected the other one could not get in please help. and the one that could not connect to internet is getting an ipadress 168.xxx.xxx.
i need help badly
mikey said,
April 5, 2008 at 11:56 pm
those with 1.14 and no WIFI, I restored again and then used Ziphone do it all
then i cleared my network settings, and toggled Airplane mode off and on ALL before I tried to conect to network,
then i connected and it worked… i wont mess with it again
Good luck, email me if problems, mverbora@hotmail.com, id be glad to help
T Gun said,
April 13, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I have wifi problem..
My speed on the wifi network falls from 600-700kbits too
12-20 kbits after first try.
I have tested with 2 brand new Zyxel routers, and my laptops messure 600-700 kbits so the wifi is alright. I have changed the channel on the router, I have disabled web-encryption (had PSK before), and it’s still the same problem.
Here’s what I have done, I have left the safari page on the http://www.iphonenetworktest.com, next I wait 10 mins (phone turns off the wifi automaticly when idle for long time), the second I turn it on I Refresh the page and the little wifi icon on the top shows it reconnects.
the test runs through at lightning speed and gives me 600-700 kbits a second.
Here is the problem :O( I rerun the test, and it never finishes… after 3-4 mins or so I get a result 12 Kbits/s!!!!!
and when I try to access pages through safari,, it takes forever.
if I let the phone idle, and retry the page, it comes like a flash and when I try a second page, it loads forever.
This is a brand new Iphone I got it yesterday, and have run out of ideas.
Btw: Edge network is completely disabled, I have tried that too..
can anyone please help? I would really appreciate it.
amy said,
April 15, 2008 at 5:58 pm
do I have to have my own wireless Internet for this? If not how do I tap into others networks?
Xander said,
April 17, 2008 at 8:57 am
hey guys just wanted to ask that i am planning to buy a wifi router . So it will be really helpful if any1 can suggest me which router i should go for which can be compatible with my I phone. If i go for D link which model i shud go for. Any help wil be higly appreciated.Thanks
Shelby said,
April 18, 2008 at 8:43 am
Is it okay to let neighbor access internet using my vis my router?
what are the do’s and don’ts.
Is it safe? Thinking about disabling my router……
Thanks for any info…
Shelby
alex said,
April 29, 2008 at 6:18 pm
thanx !!!
Azhar shah said,
April 30, 2008 at 3:09 am
Setting router to G only network (again) this time rebooting router and iphone and retesting. no improvement.
Broadcast SSID - no improvement
Changed to WEP security - no improvement
Tried changing channels on access point. no improvements.
Tried using a static iP address on iphone. no improvement.
Tried reserving a static ip address for the iphone on the router and using DHCP on iphone. no improvement.
Created a firewall rule to allow all inbound traffic to iphone ip address. no improvement.
upgraded the firmware in the router. no improvement.
So now I am pretty much out of things to try. But here is something I found which indicates there is a problem. I tried pinging the iphone from my laptop (which was directly plugged into the wireless router and the response time is huge, averaging around 384ms and 44% packet loss over a time period of say 1 minute (see below), compared to when I ping the mac, which averages 1ms. Just to confirm there was no bottleneck between my laptop and iphone I ran a ping test from the router, and the latency was high also at an average of 377ms.
Pinging 192.168.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=418ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=543ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=137ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=263ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=1003ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=364ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=2334ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=252ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=379ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=506ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=758ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=372ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=499ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=385ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=512ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=254ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=379ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=505ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=119ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=860ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=474ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time=829ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.2:
Packets: Sent = 61, Received = 34, Lost = 27 (44% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2ms, Maximum = 2334ms, Average = 384ms
Arthur Galimov said,
April 30, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Thank you very much! #3 worked for me with my Zyxel router. Thanks again!!!
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Enthil said,
May 4, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Where did you get the password? Purchase it somewhere? I’m in China right this minute, and I’m afraid it’ll be half a year till I go back to UK… I’ve no idea what’s that password’s about…
isai said,
May 20, 2008 at 11:28 am
Iphone wifi tips…
Thanks so much for the tips. Last night we had this horrible thunderstorm and I guess my wifi machine turned off and on again and threw my iPhone out of wack!
It was such a simple procedure, but I had to read it here! Gracias!
ncvf said,
May 20, 2008 at 2:07 pm
hi,got my wifi finaly to get out of stage grey,but when i tired to connect wh¡ih my router but it just gets stuck there so i tried the wep but as soon as i touch that key , the iphone shows the apple,it goes back on and it says searching can`t read my sis card so i reboot it a couple of times becaause it gets stuck there and wifi goes no agian but nothing happesn.my iphone is 114,i have a linksys router and live in argentina
ncvf said,
May 20, 2008 at 2:18 pm
when i do step 2 turning off my wifi it switches to the apple helppppppppppppppp
ncvf said,
May 20, 2008 at 2:42 pm
now my wifi has turned grey again when i tried part 2 a and when i did b it turned to the apple agian and went grey again cant get it to work again!!!!
Marc said,
May 25, 2008 at 8:58 am
Nutdhanai,
I don’t have a hacked iphone, but I tried everything that was mentioned and it still wouldn’t work. It seem to be connected to the correct wifi, but no ip address or any of that info was displayed. So I tried your method…worked like a charm. Thanks for the input.
Tenzin said,
May 25, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Anyone can help me to get wifi connection here in Toronto. I have been struggling hard to get connection.
ethan said,
May 30, 2008 at 10:00 am
Well my family and I live in the woods where we can’t get wifi home so I have to go to a starbucks or something where there is public wifi well it says I’m connected to wifi and the symbol at the top left corner but when I try to connect to the iTunes store it says wifi could not connect to iTunes store so I called 1-800-myi-phone and they said I have to call them when Im in a wifi area before they can help me I haven’t tried it yet but I need help !!!!!!!
pore peter said,
June 2, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I’ve got an iphone 3 months now and i although i enter the password correct (wap) and i can see my router’s web page by writing 192.168.1.1 at my safari browser i can’t do nothing else, everywhere the same thing,youtube googlemaps safari: can’t find host, oh and the dns thing didn’t change anything
Help please!
Bale said,
June 5, 2008 at 3:01 pm
i have a iphone with wifi issues
i can connect to wifi but when i go 2 safari it says can’t find server
even in connection settings it doesn’t display anthing for router and DNS
plz help!
thanks
Andy said,
June 13, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Hey, I restarted my router’s password, and the WiFi worked great! But, after I left for dinner and came back, my iPhone hasn’t worked with the WiFi. I am using a Linksy’s WRT54GS Router. Thanks.
ranjit said,
June 18, 2008 at 12:35 am
i have problem connecting my iphone to wifi
when i turn on my iphone i see the available network as KUSMS n when i tap it i find the network being checked but i couldnot find the symbol of wifi on top bar of my screen where time, name of network appears.
is my iphone broken or some thing like that
John said,
July 7, 2008 at 2:42 am
buy a nokia. :)))
Robin said,
July 7, 2008 at 9:30 am
Thanks! This worked for me.
Christine Nichols said,
July 13, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I have 3 ipones in my house. My one son has been connected from day one with no problems. My other son and I are unable to connect to wifi. I have read through everything above and don’t know where else to turn. I am using a dlink router. I figured since my one sons work it isn’t the router. I have no idea if I am using WEP on my network. I need help.
Thanks,
Christine
Mike said,
July 15, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Big thanks, my friend. I spent 3-4 hours unsuccessful hours trying to log onto
my wi-fi. Let me add my thanks , along with the many others before me.
Hugo said,
July 15, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Just got the new 3G iPhone and those steps worked for me!
Many thanks
G said,
July 17, 2008 at 9:59 pm
ALSO LONGTIME READER - FIRST TIME POSTER…
Its people like u & mav dat rock this world. mav is the silent ‘o great one’ where u are more the extraverted kind willing to poke & prod to find these secrets which big identities do not want brought to the for-front! Well done guys, you’ve made my day.
Matt A said,
July 25, 2008 at 10:12 am
Thank you for this post.
I was about to reset the router but was trying other options.
When i came across this and it worked i saved myself a lot of time!
Dayton said,
July 28, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Cannot hook new G-3 i phone up to secured WiFi at Home. Unsecured works fine. Both Wep 64 or 128 with or without “”$” cause a check mark, but the network never hooks up…. cannot find where to change password to ASCII in new G 3to try that…At wits end?? Running Linksys -N Router
Daniel - Belo Horzionte - Brazil said,
July 29, 2008 at 7:21 am
Ok Folks, I had this same Wi-Fi issue and I could fix it! I have done some stuffs which I believe that can help you all. Let me first try to explain what I understand about this issue and then I will say what I have tried until get it fixed.
So, many of you think that, after some tries, there is no other alternative and you should request Apple’s support or even change your iPhone to another one. Calm down!
You are having this Wi-Fi issue because your EGDE is trying to take the connection all the time. My iPhone could hardly see the networks around. So I did this steps bellow:
- My firmware was 1.1.4 and I downgraded it to 1.1.3. How? Very easy! Download this file from apple site “iPhone1,1_1.1.3_4A93_Restore.ipsw”. Connect your iPhone to your computer, open iTunes and, holding SHIFT, press “Restore” button. It will open a pop up asking for the file that you already downloaded. Select the file and and a few seconds. At the end, you will receive an error message saying that the iphone could not be restored. Easy, because you are in the right way. Now, download ziPhone and, with iPhone still connected and iTunes opened, click on “Do it All”. Your iPhone will be unlocked, jailbroke and activated. Now, still on ZiPhone, expand the Advanced Features, select “Fix NO WiFi” and click on “Perform Actions”. Excellent! So far, your iPhone has 1.1.3 firmware, is unlocked, jailbroke and activated. Also you ran the wifi fix.
- Turn off and on again your iPhone
- Download BossPref. I don’t know the source but you can easily find it on Google. After installed, just turn the EDGE off into this program. This is very important!
- If you still got issues to open a page, try to use a DNS. This also can help a lot!
So folks, that is what I’ve done with my iPhone. Before that I thought about throw it away but, CALM DOWN, I have sure you also will fix this issue on your iPhone.
Good luck and holp it helps!
John Pattillo said,
July 29, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Nutdhanai said,
On your iPhone, go to setttings, general, reset, select - reset network settings
I followed this advice and it worked right away. All done.
Thank you.
Phil said,
August 1, 2008 at 9:21 am
Hello all,
I need help. I bought my 3G ipone on Moday and I still can’t seem to get the wifi to work. On unsecured networks I always get the message “unable to join network”. I get this result on public unsecured networks and on my home netowork which is also unsecured.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Rolando said,
August 3, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Heeelp
I’ve had my iphone for 6 months and it suddenly stopped connecting to my home wi-fi last week (still connecting at work).
I’ve tried: resetting network settings, with $ before password, changing DNS, removing security from my router and nothing works
Please help, I dont know what else to do