Ok on our home wifi for added security I have disabled SSID broadcasting but have coded the connection parameters for our wifi in all our devices that use wifi. Every device we have can connect at will with SSID broadcasting disabled except for this new HTC Magic Rogers sent me a few days ago
When I go to the Magic's wireless settings page it says the following about our wifi...
"Not in range, remembered"
If I log in to my wireless AP and enable SSID broadcasting the Magic connects right away as you would expect but like I said I disable SSID broadcasting for security reasons and prefer to keep it that way.
Any ideas on a fix other than enabling SSID broadcasting?
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Hiding your SSID does not provide any additional security, any hacker can find out your SSID in a matter of seconds. Just use WPA2 with a strong key and you will be fine. Two good articles about hiding SSID
blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx
wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3576541
I have hidden SSID with WPA2-PSK on #13 channel and have no problem connecting phone to my home net.
Having problems connecting to a Belkin wifi adsl router with a Legend I bought for my wife. My Desire connects with no problems.
wifi analyser showing 70dBm, no other wireless routers in the area using the channel.
using wpa/wpa2 psk, router is in the same room.
I get prompted to enter the passcode, then nothing. Wifi shows as disconnected.
No wifi strength meter showing in the notification bar and no connection attempts showing at the router.
Are there any log files on the phone I can check?
I'm new to android so any hints would be cool.
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UPDATE:::
Rebooted router, wifi now working..
Strange!
Thanks
Andy
I was having a terrible time getting my wi-fi to work on my DroidX. I couldn't figure out what was going on at first. My Netgear N router was coming up as having WEP security when it has WPA-PSK. My Netgear G router would connect, but I couldn't get any data.
But today I figured out what was wrong. I downloaded a wi-fi scanner app and took a look at what wi-fi channels were in play. Not only were both of my routers trying to use the same channel, but other nearby routers were also using similar channels. Armed with this info, I went in and changed the channels that my routers use. My N router now is detected properly and connects, and speed is no issue. Unfortunately, the G router is still giving me trouble, as I can't find a channel for it that isn't being obstructed.
If you're having problems with wi-fi on your droid X, do what I did and find out if there's a better channel your router can be set to. Please leave feedback here if it does or doesn't work for you.
I have my Tattoo rooted with 1.6 (can't recall the ROM name) with build number 1.67.405.6. Almost everything works fine except the connection with my home WiFi network. It's a PPPoE connection through ADSL modem. Next in line is the Netgear WG602 v3 WiFi router. At the beginning I couldn't connect at all so I changed the router's ROM to DD-WRT. Now I can connect with the router but no connection to the internet whatsoever. I can ping my router through my Tattoo, I can even open the 192.168.1.1 and mess around with its software but no connection to the internet. It is only limited to my Tattoo as I can connect through my laptop, through my other mobile (HTC S710) and also I can connect my Tattoo with any other WiFi (Secured or Open) with no problems at all.
I tried with no Security, with WEP, with WPA-PSK to no avail. Any other clues?
try running htc mail while you are using your wifi throuf your tattoo it worked for me
What is supposed to happen if I do that? I'm trying it as soon as I get home btw.
Nothing happened
Hi all...sorry for my interference but this problem is similar to mine.
I'm going mad from many weeks trying connect my Huawei Ideos (U8150) to my home wlan through a netgear VG602v3 AP. No way to do this.
Wifi works from my laptop and from my girlfriend's laptop, but from ideos it doesn't.
I turned off all wireless device in my house, I tried with/without WPA, I tried open network from channel #1 to channel #13, tried changing ssid and I also tried praying .
There is a weak wifi near here: it is on channel #1 and its power is between -89 and -82db. My wifi power (data from kismet) is between -50 and -18 db and is configured on channel #11.
In any cases, even if I put my Ideos near to AP antenna the story is ever the same:
- Ideos indentify the wifi network
- Ideos acquire the IP
- I open the browser or the android market and...
- Ideos lose connection...and so on.
I downloaded from work wifi (crypted with WPA) a wifi scanner from app store: it shows me the neighbour's weak wifi and my wifi network which appear and disappear recurrently.
Please, someone helps me (without suggest to buy another AP!!), any suggestions are welcome!!
Have you tried logging into the router and checking the privileges for devices. Some of them have a security element that restricts the use of the internet on newly connected devices until the setting is changed. I had a similar problem with a new laptop.
hope it helps.
I checked every setting to no avail. I still think somehow that my problem is with my router or adsl modem which doesn't connect automatically with PPPoE and Android doesn't have any command or software to initiate a PPPoE connection.
Other than that... Can't find any solution. Until then, I use connectify on my Win7 laptop. The thing is that I have to keep my laptop switched on as long as I'm in the house.
alpick36 said:
Have you tried logging into the router and checking the privileges for devices. Some of them have a security element that restricts the use of the internet on newly connected devices until the setting is changed. I had a similar problem with a new laptop.
hope it helps.
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thank you for suggestion. I looked in depth but I did not found the option of which you were talking about. The unique solution still remains change the AP!!!
WiFi and Netgear Router
I think I finally found the answer. It appears Netgear routers support something called WiFi Multimedia. Its a QOS methodology. I disabled WiFi MM or WIMM as its sometimes called, as well as Internet QOS and all my problems connecting to web pages, the market, etc. through WiFi disappeared.
Strange that older versions of the ROM supported WIMM (or ignored it) and newer ones don't. But that solved the problem for me with no real degradation of performance on any of my other computers.
Good luck.
Hey guy,
I haven't been able to have my Droid 2 keep a stable connection to my linksys secured with WPA. It connects for a second, the drops out, again and again. Any solutions?
do you have security enabled on your router? if so turn off or change the security and try it
also is your router set to look for mac address if so set it not to
Never mind. Apparently froyo has issues with WMM. I disabled that and it started working again.