Comments on: The great iPhone 3.0 problem of aught-nine: Sporadic Wi-Fi

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:38:11 +0000

My brother, My dad, and I all have iPhone 3G’s, but for some reason my dads phone cant even find the wifi service when the phone is only two feet from the router (Linksys WRT54G) any help anyone

By: okeyeboe

okeyeboe — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:47:27 +0000

Well, a makeshift solution to stabilize you Wifi Connectivity on 3.0 and 3.01 is to simply use the Static settings on your Wifi. It appears the problem is with DHCP (Auto Configuration).

If you accurately set the IP, Subnet, Router, and DNS on your Iphone, you would have very stable connection on Wifi. The snag here is, if you have to use another network, you would need to reconfigure.

By: pramipexol

pramipexol — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:43:26 +0000

So I just tested this out with a Netgear Range Max Wireless – N router and switched it from N to G and the iphone 3gS w/3.0 downloaded without any problems…turned on N and it dropped it like it was hot.

By: JOn3sh

JOn3sh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:07:48 +0000

It is defenitely Firmware problem my WIFI used to be always connected to my network but after updating to 3.0 and 3.01 whenever my iphone goes standby i will need to connect it manually again. I have 2 iphone 3g that are having the same problem.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:40:08 +0000

As evidenced by the 40+ page thread on this subject at Apple Forums (http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1274&start=0), this WiFi problem persists for many, many people. Has anyone found a fix? Apple, what’s up?

By: danielz

danielz — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:20:50 +0000

I’m seeing the same issue with a Linksys WRT54GS router. The funny thing is my wife purchased her iphone the same time I purchased mine. We have the same firmware version and are using the same router. Hers works fine over wifi and mine doesn’t.

By: Kev C

Kev C — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:43:29 +0000

I have had nothing but problems with the iphoe 3g, i bought one last december then after 4 months the mic stopped working and no one could hear me when talking so i got a new one, after 6 weeks i upgraded to the new software, now it will no longer even find any wifi connections, this feature has totally stopped and its so annoying as i dont live in a 3g area. so its back to apple yet again, everyone loves paying this much per month for a contract phone that in the last 7 months has spent 2 months in the repair shop.

By: marcee

marcee — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:09:41 +0000

I have a 1st gen with 3.0 and no wi-fi. It’s not the router. It won’t pick up wi-fi at home, at work, at the apple store, at the airport, at Starbucks. It’s not the router. And I do have a Wi-Fi Address in my General/About.

The Genius at the store told me to wait for 3.1. What kind of bullshit solution is that? Apple puts out firmware that broke my perfectly functioning phone and there’s nothing they can do. And what if 3.1 doesn’t fix this? Then I’m screwed.

I want them to downgrade me back to 2.x and downgrade my baseband and give me back my working phone. This is such crap.

By: nada_aver

nada_aver — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:35:55 +0000

@yhageii
“how did you set it up?”

How to configure your router or
how to configure your iphone?

By: Robert Shiplett

Robert Shiplett — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:30:36 +0000

but 2 of my apps work fine:
the moon phases app and Japanaese word-of-the-day

The weather app works if I leave it sit 5 – 10 minutes

All others fail

Nothing work whenever 3.0 fails to populate thr router IP, the subnet mask ans the DNS – and that appeaars to be totally random.

But until I chnafes to 128 WEP on my netgear router, I had NADA on the iTouch.

Only change: paid and upgraded to 3.0

By: dreeZruleZ

dreeZruleZ — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:07:34 +0000

Mine is back in the toilet – It seems to be activity related. There’s a bug when you do Settings->About and there are no mac addresses for the bluetooth and wireless. Apple posted a solution here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1559

FRUSTRATING!!!!!

By: Martin Sarter

Martin Sarter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:54:10 +0000

Wayne, I cannot connect my 3GS to my Airport Extreme (”unable to join this network” and minimal signal strength) but am fine with other networks. What are your Extreme settings? Thanks, Martin.

By: dreeZruleZ

dreeZruleZ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:56:54 +0000

I had the same issues everybody else, and nothing seemed to work or fix it… Until I updated cydia’s mobile substract this morning. That fixed my 3g and my wife’s 2g iphones.

If you have a jailbroken iphone, that might be what you need.

Cheers!

By: nkr

nkr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:00:31 +0000

I have a first generation iphone with wifi issues everywhere. Once I updated to 3.0 it has been occurring and I have a newer airport extreme (april09) blasting N and G dual.

However, even when I leave home I am having problems. I have a corporate push mail configured (inotifylink software) and it is killing me.

I also tried everything – updated firmware on my own airport extreme that came out very soon after 3.0 for the iphone.

I keep waiting for an update fix – but none yet. I am at a loss what to do.

PS: my wife has the new 3G and it appears to do the same thing, but she only has push mail configured by me for her email – a very common setup i assure you.

By: Stefano

Stefano — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:55:42 +0000

I have an ipod touch 2g and a zyxel router 660HW-61… Same problem!! After upgrading to 3.0 wifi slowed down to 20-30 Kbps… before with 2.2.1 it ran at 2000 Kbps!! And I tried every possible setting both on ipod and router side… it a software fault!! Connection is highly instable… ping lags… it’s even impossible to download and install a small app without waiting some 20 minutes… really bad. Even were there a fix for the router it would be a bad solution because we all use these devices to have connectivity at homw, at work place, on the road… have we to plan our route and ask all sys admins to fix the setting of their routers?? Anyway I downgraded back to 2.2.1 and everything now works fast as usual. I wonder how such a big issue wasn’t fixed in months of beta testing…

By: yhageii

yhageii — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:27:02 +0000

@nada_aver

can you please clarify your solution?
how did you set it up?

“My setup: iPhone 3G(static netwerk configuration), Linksys WRT54G”

i have same router, i would just want to try your solution..

thanks in advance!

By: al

al — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:55:57 +0000

I went to apple store. had appt there and since I did all support asked me and still no wifi and i was under warranty, they gave me a new phone and all works well

By: Randu

Randu — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:55:03 +0000

I have a 3GS and have the wifi issue I’d say you’re testing was severly flawed.

By: Larry Eckerling

Larry Eckerling — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:45:18 +0000

I have learned (through a test of two different wi-fi 3GS phones, that this problem does not exist on the 3GS phones. It is only on the 3G phones that were upgraded to 3.0.

By: santos

santos — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:39:30 +0000

Me too. Im using Iphone 3G and recently upgraded from OS 2.2.1 to OS 3.0 and two days later my usual wi-fi connection to my ROUTER Linksys WAG54G stopped working. I noticed that the phone can detect and connect to wifi but it wont let me download / surf internet. I have tried resetting network settings, using different DNS addresses and last night, restore iphone software! If anyone can help, please let me know!! cheers