iPhone Wi-Fi

[NachtDerUntoten]

I'm trying to get my iPhone to connect to the home wi-fi and I'm having problems. I've managed to connect to my girlfriend's wi-fi at her house but not mine.

I can successfully connect to the wi-fi (or so it says), and I have the wireless symbol pop up with 3 bars (greatest signal strength). The iPhone can successfully access the router via the wireless network, but I cannot access any websites whatsoever. The symbol for wi-fi changes to only 1 bar and this stays the same even when stood right next to my router.

WTF is going on and how do I go about fixing it? I'd rather not use the crappy 3G network from O2.

Router has been reset, iphone reset, network settings reset, DNS changed, static IP addresses assigned, MAC filtering on and off but still no ******* luck.

I'm almost at the point of throwing this thing out of the window, please help.

 

[colin79666]

What router have you got?
It's more likely to be the router than the phone. When you say it can access the router does the phone get an IP address from the router?

 

[NachtDerUntoten]

Yeah the phone gets an IP address from the router.
It's a Safecom SWBR-5400

http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/...uyer+54mbps+Wireless+Cable+DSL+WI+FI+Broa.jpg

That thing...

 

[colin79666]

Does the ip on the phone start 169?

 

[NachtDerUntoten]

No it starts 192...

 

[colin79666]

Looks like a dns problem then.
You tried manually setting the dns server in the phone?
Try using 8.8.8.8 as the primary dns server in the phone.

 

[NachtDerUntoten]

Setting the DNS to 8.8.8.8 didn't work. I was over at the girlfriends tonight and had a peek at her internet settings. Strangely the DNS was the same as the router IP...

I'll try setting it to that.

 

[colin79666]

Setting the DNS to 8.8.8.8 didn't work. I was over at the girlfriends tonight and had a peek at her internet settings. Strangely the DNS was the same as the router IP...

I'll try setting it to that.

Well the default will be as the router acts as the dns server for your internal network - usually 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.254

If dhcp is working properly then the router should give the phone the ip, default gateway and dns server addresses to use.

 

[NachtDerUntoten]

It does give all of those IP addresses, just not in the 192.168.0.1 format, it gives something daft like 82.178.242.223 (made up number). I shall fiddled aboot.

 

[colin79666]

Sounds like the phone is being given the public IP of the router rather than the internal IP.

 

[NachtDerUntoten]

So how would I go about getting the router to give internal IPs?

 

[colin79666]

Well it already should be giving out 192.168.x.x addresses - that's part of what dhcp does. I'm assuming your other devices going through the router have such addresses.

 

[NachtDerUntoten]

Yes, all other devices access the network fine via the 192.168 IP's.

 

[colin79666]

Well I'm stumped.

 

[NachtDerUntoten]

Stumped you shall be no longer! I went out and bought a new router to replace the crap on the ISP gave us. All is well now.