Spotty wifi performance is driving me nuts
O.K., I’ve approved to apprehend as abundant as accessible on this topic. I’ve gone over the
Apple abutment pages on it and accept noticed that abounding abounding humans are accepting wifi problems on the iPhone 3G. I’ve aswell begin a huge arrangement of admonition on several added web pages, but I just can’t assume to able this.
What is active me batty is the botheration seems to be actual arrangement dependent. I can affix to to wifi at assorted locations just fine, but then, depending on the arrangement I am using, no pages amount in Safari, and added arrangement apps time out. My home router (old D-Link DL-514) works abundant with all of my Macs, abundant signal, acceptable acceleration etc. My iPhone is a altered story. Arresting backbone is consistently one to two confined lower than any computer in the aforementioned location, and the iPhone cannot accomplish a affiliation about 80% of the time. When I accept to renew the dhcp charter from the phone, annihilation changes. Resetting the router and/or iPhone doesn’t assume to change this either. I’ve afflicted the router channel, but get the aforementioned poor results. I can again use my wifi affiliation at plan and things move forth on the iPhone absolutely accurately and I accept a abundant signal. Unfortunately I don’t accept any abstracts on my plan wifi system, but will acquisition out soon.
Apple absolutely needs to footfall up and accommodate bigger detail for agitation cutting on this topic. Should I acquirement a new router for home? Any admonition on acceptable routers that assume to plan able-bodied with the iPhone?
I use a Linksys WRT54G router operating in 802.11B (not G) mode, back I accept earlier B accessories in my home. It works accomplished with my iPhone 3G. Could not get the Linksys auto bureaucracy to plan but could set it up manually. I accept aswell acclimated the Apple Airport Accurate with my iPhone and it works fine.
Years ago, in the aboriginal canicule of WiFi, there were issues with abhorrence of altered WiFi accessories from altered manufacturers. Even admitting they all met the ’standard’, they ability not ‘conform’ or play able-bodied with anniversary added due to issues alfresco the standard. That has become bigger today with the acceptance action of the WiFi Forum, an industry group.
I admiration about the affinity of your old D-Link router and the iPhone. I don’t accept an answer, I am just adage this acclimation amount has been an affair with earlier devices. Maybe you can borrow a router to try at home. Maybe D-Link tech abutment has some insights on this.
What encryption accepted do you accept the D-Link?
Some are bigger than others. Wep, although anemic seems to affix adequately well.
WPA2 Personal (AES) seems to plan best because the negotiations are all done in hardware. VERY IMPORTANT: Alone accredit ONLY one encryption advantage if your router supports added than one. Two will get you in a deadlock and it will affix maybe one in 10 tries.
Go into your router and assets an IP for the phones based on their mac address. This makes agreement faster, because the router never has to analysis to see if the ip is accessible afore acceptance buzz to connect. Once that is done, you can cautiously set the buzz for changeless IP on that router, but I don’t apperceive that will help.
Channel 1 thru 6 assume bigger than college ones.Finally, I accept abstruse to abeyance at the ‘Slide to unlock’ awning and WAIT (3 seconds) for the Wifi arresting to show.
Rushing in and ablution email (or web browsing) will GUARANTEE it will NEVER affix to wifi till the mail blockage is done, and abstracts manual is finished. Once it establishes a tcp/ip affiliation over Edge or 3G it will not about-face to WIFI till all of that cartage is done. This agency If Push is on its harder to get to wifi. If Fetch is on a abbreviate aeon time its harder to get to wifi.
As for bars, pay them no heed. They lie. I will get one bar sometimes, and it will abort to connect. About-face off wifi, delay 30 seconds, about-face on wifi and it will affix with abounding confined after me affective one inch.Wifi confined accept even beneath acceptation than 3G confined (if such a affair were possible).
Also your iPhone will not even appearance networks that it things are too weak, based on some abracadabra formula.
HOWEVER I apperceive for a actuality it is seeing these networks, because artlessly axis off my wifi router will could cause it to appearance my neighbor’s routers which never appearance up otherwise.
I’m application wep encryption. I’m traveling to see if I’m due for a firmware amend on the router, and attack to change some of the appropriate settings afore I bandy in the anhydrate and acquirement a new one. One added point from my aboriginal mail is that the wifi at plan is open, so this may accept something to do with the bigger adherence too.
I’d had no agitation at all with WiFi whilst 3G was a nightmare. Now it’s the opposite, although I don’t apperceive whether that happened at the aforementioned time as I put 2.1 on as I didn’t do annihilation ‘taxing’ on WiFi immediately.
But as an example, was sitting in an airport lounge on Openzone the added day and YouTube wouldn’t play at all after abashed and endlessly every few seconds. Switched WiFi off and got 3G (only 2 bars!) and abundantly it formed altogether for the 6 or 7 videos I played – aforementioned ones that wouldn’t run on WiFi.
At the time I anticipation it was just an active Openzone hotspot, but the aforementioned affair happened at home on my own bare WiFi / broadband. YouTube just wont plan at all over WiFi. Can’t try 3G at home admitting as there isn’t any
Firmware update. Acceptable idea.
What router is it anyway? I accept heard that some routers artlessly are not actual abiding though.
While you are at it, WEP is way out of date. WPA or WPA2 are recommended nowadays.
Well, I absitively to bandy in the anhydrate and advancement to an Airport acute abject base and accurate assemblage as well. Now my iPhone affiliation is absolutely fast and I can book to all of my printers over the wireless arrangement as well.
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