Connecting iPhone to wifi

[Getback]

I have a 2wire modem and the iPhone recognizes the wireless router but I can't get the password to work. It worked on the router address but not on my iphone. Any suggestions?

[Nwbie]

you read this?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I have a 2wire modem and the iPhone recognizes the wireless router but I can't get the password to work. It worked on the router address but not on my iphone. Any suggestions?

Do you have the 4S? They have had problems with wifi, battery and in general. It looks like there's some major problem also on desktop side, after the OS update (lion) I haven't been able to use certain programs through wifi, certain others work.

I'm not going to update my other hardware untill this gets fixed.

[RTHolmes]

It worked on the router address but not on my iphone.

... suggests you're trying to enter the router admin password as your wifi password, they are usually different.

[Getback]

Do you have the 4S? They have had problems with wifi, battery and in general. It looks like there's some major problem also on desktop side, after the OS update (lion) I haven't been able to use certain programs through wifi, certain others work.

I'm not going to update my other hardware untill this gets fixed.

I have a iphone 3gs. I've looked at everything and there seems to be no administrative password other than what was originally assigned to the device. It's suppose to be already set up. I'm heading back to AT&T this weekend and try it on their router.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

... suggests you're trying to enter the router admin password as your wifi password, they are usually different.

Yep, Getback you should log in to your router using the router password, then check your wifi is on and set a password for it (in case you forgot or don't know it). Furthermore if you never used the wifi part before it's most likely not configured at all so in any case you need to set it up on the router menu.

Your wifi password is highly unlikely to be the same as your router admin one. A 3GS should have no trouble connecting to a regular wifi.

[Reschke]

That is one reason I sold my iphone....made out like a bandit on it as well. I couldn't get my craphone to stay connected to my ATT Uverse route (2wire) for more than 5 minutes at a time. My Atrix2 on the other hand loves wifi...but eats battery juice like a crack head.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

That is one reason I sold my iphone....made out like a bandit on it as well. I couldn't get my craphone to stay connected to my ATT Uverse route (2wire) for more than 5 minutes at a time. My Atrix2 on the other hand loves wifi...but eats battery juice like a crack head.

Our iPhones work perfectly with wifi. Never had problems with the earlyer Telewell, Buffalo, D-link or the current Apple Time capsule. You just need a good signal - I had to try out several models before I found one that can cover all of my house. Interestingly enough a single Time capsule does that while the D-link and Buffalo failed, had little to no reception downstairs. The telewell 513 with its triple antenna was awesome untill it got fried.

[Masherbrum]

I don't have this problem with my Droid X.

[RTHolmes]

I don't have this problem with my iPhone.

[Reschke]

Understand completely Ripley but while every wifi enabled device in my home shows great connectivity...even the iPad my oldest has from the school that they gave him will not stay connected. I can take my old corporate hunk of junk Dell over to my neighbors house across the street and stay connected...until the battery dies which isn't that long now. I could be sitting beside my router with a full strength showing in the interface from the iphone and wasn't able to stay hooked up more than 5 minutes. However my son's itouch which he got almost 3 years ago now works perfectly and stays connected for every.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Understand completely Ripley but while every wifi enabled device in my home shows great connectivity...even the iPad my oldest has from the school that they gave him will not stay connected. I can take my old corporate hunk of junk Dell over to my neighbors house across the street and stay connected...until the battery dies which isn't that long now. I could be sitting beside my router with a full strength showing in the interface from the iphone and wasn't able to stay hooked up more than 5 minutes. However my son's itouch which he got almost 3 years ago now works perfectly and stays connected for every.

That's pretty weird. Sounds like a hardware defect or bad firmware version, did you keep the phone updated? I've noticed that it's not necessarily the smartest thing to do to accept the updates immediately - even on Apple devices. Updates porked my old 3G and now my MBP. Starting to feel microsoft-ish

[Vulcan]

iOS devices can be a pain with wifi, they don't support aggregated/wide band on N, so you can use narrow band N only. They are fussy about beacon intervals, and other 'tweaks'.

[Reschke]

Yeah Ripley it was updated but I was never a first day update kinda person when the newest and "greatest" apple stuff came out. It worked fine for about the first 4-6 months and then it went in the crapper.

[Getback]

I'm going to pay a visit to At&T today to see if they can help. I've searched the internet.