Wifi hotspot keeps appearing then disappearing.. pretty weird

[DMcGrew]

I connected to my work's Wifi yesterday but ever since I hit the sleep button on my phone the Wifi hotspot display in the Wifi settings keeps appearing then 3 sec later it disappears. When I tap on it it says unable to connect. Anyone else have this problem? I have no idea if its a iphone problem or if its my work's wifi that has the problem.

[Bluesy1]

That happens to me to. Sometimes my Airport connection is there, sometimes not. Usually it finds it though but sometimes I have to manually connect it in the settings. Same thing occasionally happens on my Macbook.

[Tinman]

The first post is interesting as it seems exactly like what I experienced on my iPhone (see the thread I started called Poor WiFi range).

In my case I have two laptops, one a few years old with not-so-good WiFi range and the other only a few months old with great WiFi range. My iPhone, although a bit better than when I first started that thread, is not as good range-wise compared to either of the laptops. And I had to swap APs to make it work even acceptably, something I won't be able to do at most hot spots ;).

But the two replies to the thread I started seemed to indicate the iPhone is great with WiFi range, which mine clearly is not. It might prove to be acceptable, but at this point not great.

OTOH, I don't want to go through the exercise of returning it if they all work that way. And for sure there is a software bug when it comes to DNS with certain routers (i.e., one shouldn't have to override DNS settings).


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Mike