Iphone keeps knocking out my Home Network !

[paulwilko10]

Hiya

I have a weird problem

There are 2 iPhone 3GS's in the house both on latest FW 5.1. Both use wireless all the time.

I have a Linksys WRT54G Router with Tomato FW

At no set time, one of our iPhones can knock out the network, literally, nothing can connect to the router wirelessly or wired.
This can happen when the phone enters the wireless area, if it restarts, or at anytime. Its very hard to replicate reliably, but happens fairly often

In all the time I was in Egypt, my phone never restarted itself but as soon as I got home, it did, which suggests there is some weird thing going on between phone and router.

Turn the wireless off on the phones and all is fine

Has anyone got any ideas what could be causing this please

Paul

 

[Norinion]

Hiya

I have a weird problem

There are 2 iPhone 3GS's in the house both on latest FW 5.1. Both use wireless all the time.

I have a Linksys WRT54G Router with Tomato FW

At no set time, one of our iPhones can knock out the network, literally, nothing can connect to the router wirelessly or wired.
This can happen when the phone enters the wireless area, if it restarts, or at anytime. Its very hard to replicate reliably, but happens fairly often

In all the time I was in Egypt, my phone never restarted itself but as soon as I got home, it did, which suggests there is some weird thing going on between phone and router.

Turn the wireless off on the phones and all is fine

Has anyone got any ideas what could be causing this please

Paul

I have a similar problem however, my phone tends to wifi-hog, and keeps knocking itself out of the wifi.

 

[paulwilko10]

I have a similar problem however, my phone tends to wifi-hog, and keeps knocking itself out of the wifi.

Which is maybe what is happening to me, but we are describing it differently

Any thoughts on how to deal with it ?

 

[eawmp1]

Try this:
http://modmyi.com/forums/general-iphone-chat/16117-router-crashes-when-iphone-leaves-wifi-radius.html

Or make sure router firmware updated.
Or purge router NVRAM

 

[paulwilko10]

Try this:
http://modmyi.com/forums/general-iphone-chat/16117-router-crashes-when-iphone-leaves-wifi-radius.html

Or make sure router firmware updated.
Or purge router NVRAM

I was quite excited when I started reading that up until the point it said use Static IP
Was the first thing I tried unfortunately. Only minor difference is that my IP is above the DHCP range and not below, can't believe that would solve it, but maybe worth a go

Purge NVRAM on the router ???

Thanks for your reply though

Paul

 

[eawmp1]

Sorry, meant hard reset (the paperclip trick) and reinstall latest Tomato.

 

[Norinion]

Try this:
http://modmyi.com/forums/general-iphone-chat/16117-router-crashes-when-iphone-leaves-wifi-radius.html

Or make sure router firmware updated.
Or purge router NVRAM

Aiite, so I've set it, Thanks. I'll update in a day or so to see how it goes.

 

[paulwilko10]

Sorry, meant hard reset (the paperclip trick) and reinstall latest Tomato.

Thanks but that is how I got tomato in the first place ;-)
I got tomato for this reason

I have just tried something slightly different, I have assigned an IP using the mac adds on the router instead of setting it on the Iphone, will see if that helps

Thx for your help

Paul

 

[paulwilko10]

A little update for anyone interested

I have always set my static IP adds up on he device, however, something came to me the other day, set the static IP adds by MAC address direct on router and set phone to DHCP.

I have done this on both mine and my wifes 3GS and so far, 3 or so days later, no lock ups or anything.

This is not concrete proof as it can happen anytime, but its a gd start

Paul