A few ideas
I stumbled across this thread after resetting my passwords. Just making my router more secure etc as I live in a congested neighboorhood.
I am using an Apple Airport Extreme basestation with RDS to an Airport Express unit. I am using WPA encryption of course because this is a MUCH more secure wireless method. You might remember WEP being abandoned years ago in the lead up to the Winter Olympics because of this insecurity.
If you are stuck in WEP hell then you'll have to deal with the hexadecimal mess. Remember (going off of memory here) hex only takes alpha number A-F and numbers 1-8 so watch what you enter as your password!! If you are erroring out in the password phase its more than likely a HEX issue or an issue with your router config or hardware. Especially so if your iPhone's wireless works fine off of other networks. 'Nuf said.
OK so I was having problems all of a sudden connecting to the wireless network. I had no problem before when my password was 8 character (WPA) but now I went to a 20 some alphanumeric password. iPhone wouldn't connect. Interesting that my shorter 8 digit password worked fine... so I'm just theorizing that there must be a threshold on this. If I was better at binary I could probably tell you a definate on this but I'm guessing it's probably 16 characters. I changed the password to a 15 character password (BTW this was an arbitrary number that popped into my head) and lo' and behold it worked fine. This is most likely a binary thing. So try shortening your password and see how that goes. It should be noted that I've tried connecting to a long password network at a friends and had the same problem. Didn't feel like troubleshooting it as their network sucked and I didn't want them blaming everything on me when all I did was tweak one little thing...
Also as a side note I noticed some of you were complaining about the phone not connecting to wireless... and staying on Edge. Personally I notice mine disconnects from wireless when not needed. Makes sense if you're trying to prevent the battery draining wireless from killing the phone. Smart move on Apple's part IMHO.
But if the phone continually stays on Edge given some of the replies I read I wonder if the problem isn't on the router side. (While this is probably a firware or software problems the though occurred.) The problem might be packet collision. Have you tried tweaking the channel of your router? Remember 1, 6, & 11 are main channels. The other ones are in between those. (Another reason for Net Neutrality anyone?). Chances are you might have the defualt settings and so does your neighbor... his router might be kicking the dust out of yours. Most people unwisely don't change this... or their default password... you might want to change that too!
Hope this helps!
I stumbled across this thread after resetting my passwords. Just making my router more secure etc as I live in a congested neighboorhood.
I am using an Apple Airport Extreme basestation with RDS to an Airport Express unit. I am using WPA encryption of course because this is a MUCH more secure wireless method. You might remember WEP being abandoned years ago in the lead up to the Winter Olympics because of this insecurity.
If you are stuck in WEP hell then you'll have to deal with the hexadecimal mess. Remember (going off of memory here) hex only takes alpha number A-F and numbers 1-8 so watch what you enter as your password!! If you are erroring out in the password phase its more than likely a HEX issue or an issue with your router config or hardware. Especially so if your iPhone's wireless works fine off of other networks. 'Nuf said.
OK so I was having problems all of a sudden connecting to the wireless network. I had no problem before when my password was 8 character (WPA) but now I went to a 20 some alphanumeric password. iPhone wouldn't connect. Interesting that my shorter 8 digit password worked fine... so I'm just theorizing that there must be a threshold on this. If I was better at binary I could probably tell you a definate on this but I'm guessing it's probably 16 characters. I changed the password to a 15 character password (BTW this was an arbitrary number that popped into my head) and lo' and behold it worked fine. This is most likely a binary thing. So try shortening your password and see how that goes. It should be noted that I've tried connecting to a long password network at a friends and had the same problem. Didn't feel like troubleshooting it as their network sucked and I didn't want them blaming everything on me when all I did was tweak one little thing...
Also as a side note I noticed some of you were complaining about the phone not connecting to wireless... and staying on Edge. Personally I notice mine disconnects from wireless when not needed. Makes sense if you're trying to prevent the battery draining wireless from killing the phone. Smart move on Apple's part IMHO.
But if the phone continually stays on Edge given some of the replies I read I wonder if the problem isn't on the router side. (While this is probably a firware or software problems the though occurred.) The problem might be packet collision. Have you tried tweaking the channel of your router? Remember 1, 6, & 11 are main channels. The other ones are in between those. (Another reason for Net Neutrality anyone?). Chances are you might have the defualt settings and so does your neighbor... his router might be kicking the dust out of yours. Most people unwisely don't change this... or their default password... you might want to change that too!
Hope this helps!
