egwinz
02-14-2009, 08:19 PM
Hi all,
I just bought an unlocked, jailbroken 3G on ebay (firmware 2.2). I'm having major trouble with wi-fi. Because the problem seems to be common from reading around, I'm not sure this is really due to a defective device. That said, the common solutions haven't helped me.
The issue is this: the iphone will connect to a wi-fi network, and get full signal. Most of the time it will initially connect fine, and load pages, albeit a bit slowly. After anywhere between 30 secs to 5 minutes, it will start failing to load pages, while still getting full signal. Other applications (like iTunes store or weather) have the same connection issues. In Safari I get 'Can't connect to network' when it times out.
Sometimes turning off wi-fi or rebooting the phone lets it start loading pages again, but the fix is never permanent, when it even works at all.
I also have an iTouch 2nd gen, which has none of these problems: in fact, I've made sure that all setting are identical on both devices (save of course for the devide's own ip): router address, DNS, etc. Works flawlessly with ipod and only temporarily with iphone.
I read around that a lot of people got similar issues solved by using openDNS servers: I tried that, and while it seems to slightly increase the time it takes for the connection to become useless, it hasn't fixed the problem.
I'm on a university network, and don't use a router to access the it, so doing any sort of reset on that side is impossible. Same for MAC address filtering: that can't be turned off for troubleshooting. Note, however, that my device is fully registered on the network, and we were able to determine it gets a valid ip when connecting.
(Other iphone users on campus have no such problem, and the IT guy is really stumped by my case).
Using public wi-fi yields better performance (speed and connection time), but it also eventually dies out, especially if I lock the screen.
Any thoughts of what else I might try? I hope I didn't just buy a lemon...
Thanks!
I just bought an unlocked, jailbroken 3G on ebay (firmware 2.2). I'm having major trouble with wi-fi. Because the problem seems to be common from reading around, I'm not sure this is really due to a defective device. That said, the common solutions haven't helped me.
The issue is this: the iphone will connect to a wi-fi network, and get full signal. Most of the time it will initially connect fine, and load pages, albeit a bit slowly. After anywhere between 30 secs to 5 minutes, it will start failing to load pages, while still getting full signal. Other applications (like iTunes store or weather) have the same connection issues. In Safari I get 'Can't connect to network' when it times out.
Sometimes turning off wi-fi or rebooting the phone lets it start loading pages again, but the fix is never permanent, when it even works at all.
I also have an iTouch 2nd gen, which has none of these problems: in fact, I've made sure that all setting are identical on both devices (save of course for the devide's own ip): router address, DNS, etc. Works flawlessly with ipod and only temporarily with iphone.
I read around that a lot of people got similar issues solved by using openDNS servers: I tried that, and while it seems to slightly increase the time it takes for the connection to become useless, it hasn't fixed the problem.
I'm on a university network, and don't use a router to access the it, so doing any sort of reset on that side is impossible. Same for MAC address filtering: that can't be turned off for troubleshooting. Note, however, that my device is fully registered on the network, and we were able to determine it gets a valid ip when connecting.
(Other iphone users on campus have no such problem, and the IT guy is really stumped by my case).
Using public wi-fi yields better performance (speed and connection time), but it also eventually dies out, especially if I lock the screen.
Any thoughts of what else I might try? I hope I didn't just buy a lemon...
Thanks!