WiFi stopped working

**Tonyd** · 07-13-2007 06:24 PM

I'm in the UK and have been using a hacked iPhone for the last 5 days quite happily on WiFi and browsing/mail etc. however just today I seem to have lost all connection with the internet. I can connect to either of my WiFi access points and the iPhone gets a sensible looking ip address but I just cannot connect to anything. Can anyone here shed light on this please ?

**zhihmeng** · 07-13-2007 06:41 PM

I think the system maybe crash. I have already encounter this problem once, but after a reset, everything work fine. You can try to reset the iPhone. Hope it can help you to solve this problem.

BTW, the reset is hold the home and power buttons for several seconds.

**Tonyd** · 07-13-2007 07:31 PM

Just taken it to another WiFi network and all was fine. But back at home still brken ,and yet all my other computers are working OK (as evidenced by my ability to post this message

Tony

**Tonyd** · 07-13-2007 07:40 PM

I've done a reset, no difference. It's got to be something to do with my home network, but I've got 2 wireless access points neither are working for iPhone.

**sweetcaro333** · 07-13-2007 07:49 PM

My iPhone WiFi has worked so far at the airport, and at my office... but it will not work at home!
The only difference between my home and office wireless routers is that the office uses ascii password and it's 128bit encryption.
At home I have it set to 64bit ncryption that I hear is not always compatible everywhere....
I'm guessing it's the encryption type because nothing else is really different....
I'll try tonight to change my wireless router to 128bit and see if it works with iPhone...

Other than that, make sure that when you enter the key in your iPhone you are selecting web password, unless you use a passphrase (ascii) then you have to change to web ascii/hex code

**refinedmusic** · 07-13-2007 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by Tonyd

I'm in the UK and have been using a hacked iPhone for the last 5 days quite happily on WiFi and browsing/mail etc. however just today I seem to have lost all connection with the internet. I can connect to either of my WiFi access points and the iPhone gets a sensible looking ip address but I just cannot connect to anything. Can anyone here shed light on this please ?

I haven't yet gotten an iPhone but my colleague has and he mentioned that if you use DHCP the DNS settings sometimes doesn't get set properly. Try finding a public DNS and manually set the DNS.

**sweetcaro333** · 07-13-2007 08:03 PM

I haven't tried this DNS solution as I'm not home yet. But will try later and for anyone who wants to try, here's a public DNS I use that works:
http://www.opendns.com/start/windows_2000.php

**Tonyd** · 07-14-2007 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by sweetcaro333

My iPhone WiFi has worked so far at the airport, and at my office... but it will not work at home!
The only difference between my home and office wireless routers is that the office uses ascii password and it's 128bit encryption.
At home I have it set to 64bit ncryption that I hear is not always compatible everywhere....
I'm guessing it's the encryption type because nothing else is really different....
I'll try tonight to change my wireless router to 128bit and see if it works with iPhone...

Other than that, make sure that when you enter the key in your iPhone you are selecting web password, unless you use a passphrase (ascii) then you have to change to web ascii/hex code

Strange thing it has been working for me at home until today

**Tonyd** · 07-14-2007 02:16 AM

Just tried it without any security at all, still doesn't work, this is driving me batty.

**JOAOZINHO** · 07-14-2007 02:24 AM

The same thing is happening to me. I was usin the wifi up at my house but then when i came to my sisters house it tries to connect but fails and says unable to connect to the server. Does anyone know why the wifi is not working here at my sisters?