WiFi - Connected but not working

[SleekGee]

Originally Posted by FeistyGirl

On the screen where you would normally type in your WEP key

Click on WEP at the top and it will give you the option to select WEP ascii or hex

Appears everyone is having their iphone hooked up on their w-fi and of course I have read all your correspondences of wi-fi problems and solutions to them, however, I have tried most of them and to no avail.

See , i have a sky router, my computers are connected and tested my iphone to network without password and works perfect, soon as I ressume password protection and type the WEP key in, wi-fi shows connected but can't access websited etc. (on 1.1.4 by the way)

Ay out there with detailed instructions????

[bebo23]

I can't get my wifi to work

I still get 'sarfai..can't find the server'

It connects fine, it find the connection and I switch from edge to wifi but I still the error

I followed some instructions here, along w/ going to airplane mode on/off

Where can I change to wep hex

settings > wi-fi ?
when i go to other, I do see security but only get wep, wpa, wpa2

even though I did it this way I stil cannot get wifi access

thanks for any help

[geordisjd]

For whatever it's worth, I get wifi problem on my home network. iPhone works fine for weeks, then I get "Safari can't connect" out of nowhere. My Airport station is connected to a Comcast router. The airport signal is active, other computers are online, but my iPhone isn't. The only thing that predictably works for me is to reset the router and restart iPhone. It feels a little bit like voodoo medicine since I can't explain why it works.

[Eragon]

Originally Posted by geordisjd

For whatever it's worth, I get wifi problem on my home network. iPhone works fine for weeks, then I get "Safari can't connect" out of nowhere. My Airport station is connected to a Comcast router. The airport signal is active, other computers are online, but my iPhone isn't. The only thing that predictably works for me is to reset the router and restart iPhone. It feels a little bit like voodoo medicine since I can't explain why it works.

I have a similar problem. Over the weekend, my iPhone WiFi started acting flaky. Although I had full WiFi signal strength, my email application would hang on connecting to server. I also noticed that sending pictures to iRovr would fail and I would get an unable to connect to the outgoing mail server. Finally, I noticed that Safari web pages would not load; they would start, but hang up.

I tried resetting, restoring, forgetting network connections, restarting my router, use the public library's WiFi, and now the same at my hotel.

What is really odd is if I hit the stop webpage loading and refresh icons several times concurrently, the page may load.

My iPhone is not jail broken. Again, this problem just started out of the blue this past weekend.

Is this a hardware problem?

[iTechnophile]

Hi all, my iPhone is in the same situation. It can connect to my home wifi, but Safari cannot open any pages.

Tried all solutions. My PC can ping the iPhone and it responds, but whether the phone can reach Internet is unknown.

I don't know a restore of firmware to 1.1.4 will fix the issue or not.

Btw, are there any chance to make the phone become a brick when restoring firmware?

[iTechnophile]

PROBLEM SOLVED. The reason is that my DNS setting on the iPhone is not 100% properly set. My wireless configuration on my laptop shows that DNS server addresses are 192.168.1.254, 192.168.1.11. The .11 is the actual DNS provider, and the .254 is the address of the ADSL modem. On my laptop, the OS will try these two addresses consequently. But in iPhone, it automatically uses the .254 as its default DNS (although it lists the two addresses consequently in the DNS field). It does not even test the .11 after a while since if it uses the .11, I can browse the webpages for sure. That is the reason my wireless on the iPhone connected but I cannot browse any webpages.

I figured out the issue when trying to use my PC as a host that provides Internet access for my iPhone by using the Internet Connection Sharing of Windows Vista.

So, the solution to all of who are having the same issues like me is that to check the DNS server settings carefully. Of course, there may be other reasons. But it would be worth to have an eye on those DNS. Be sure that only ONE DNS address is provided to the iPhone. I think this is to force the iPhone to use that DNS address. Here is my way to do it:
- I have the iPhone connect to the wifi using default DHCP query.
- After that, I change the wifi setting in the iPhone to use the Static mode (DHCP, BootP, and Static modes for each wifi connection, remember?). Then fix the DNS address to a suitable address. The problem is solved. ^.^

Another recommendation from me is that you should try the Internet Connection Sharing feature of Windows first. If the iPhone can connect to the laptop via wireless, and the laptop's wired connection is shared by Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) under Windows Vista (in my case), and if your laptop's Internet is oke, then your iPhone's wifi connection should be ok. When using this method, your laptop's wireless adapter will gain the IP 192.168.0.1 (this is automatically assigned by Windows when using ICS). Your iPhone therefore will get a 192.168.0.x IP when connecting to the laptop in an ad-hoc connection. The gateway and the DNS setting of your iPhone is also 192.168.0.x. Hence, you will see, if your iPhone can browse webpages in this sharing mode, and it cannot browse if connects directly to the router, then the problem should be router setting. DNS, default gateway, etc may be the cause.

Hope this help!
Happy wifi-ing ^.^

[Angus]

i know the password for my neighbors wifi and i can connect to it fine but i am unable to launch safari or any other internet application. maybe because when i look at settings there is no router number that shows up? Please help

[georgesalajean]

I have a wifi problem too. I have read a few stuff you people said in here but my phone is something different or maybe it's just me.
1. I can't connect to my wireless wifi network.
2. I can't do the thing Forget the network. If I go into my network it's going to Ip Address( DHCP, BootP and Static), if I press on the network it's asking for password. I do the password and says "Unable to join.."
3. I can't find wep ascii and hex or whatever, I only have none, wep, wap, wap2 as options if I try Other network and put mine manually in, the same name. I don't know where to go for that.

Any ideas as in what to do step by step?
It's an unlocked Iphone 8gb, 1.1.4 firmware, T Mobile is the carrier, Netgear is the wireless router, security option is wpa-psk(tkip), password is numbers only.

[paolo]

I am in Canada I have an unlocked iphone. Yesterday my iphone crashed I reset it, and all is good. except tha now I am at work, and I can conne ct to the WiFi, but I cannot browse! I ahve tried all of the forgetting the network, and everything I can connect again, but cannot browse are anything! Sniff sniff! Anyone have any ideas?

I have reset the router, the only thing that I cannot do is completely reset all of the settings, for the simple fact that this is a company... The passwrd is actually a word and nto hex...... anyone anyone???? Help please!

If possible please e-mail me drectly at p_sangiovanni@hotmail.com

[Galitw]

Originally Posted by wjp09

Also turn on airplane mode for atleast 15 secs then turn it off then retry. I heard that worsk.

I tried it, and it does not work.
I guess I'll have to reconfigure the Wi-Fi connnection :-(