how about an answer on how and why wi-fi works or doesn't on the iphone
As others have mentioned, I can see that my iphone is starting some sort of communication with the router here, but when I actually try to view a webpage, check my email, look at google maps or visit You-tube it just locks up and sometimes gives me some version of a "cannot connnect" message or a "server not found" message. sometimes it just clicks over to Edge even though I'm sitting 10 feet from the router.
Does someone on here really know what is wrong with the way that the iphone attempts to establish connection with a router?
There have been a lot of guesses in a few different threads that it has to do with resolving DNS from the router and things like that, but I'm really hoping for a real end-user sort of explanation.
I've only tried it on one private network at a relatives house where I've been on vacation. I'm writing this post from my Macbook and I've also used a notebook running Vista and neither is having any problems whatsoever which tells me that there is an issue with the way that the iphone does business.
My assumption would be that for the iphone to have the sort-of seamless user experience that Steve and the apple team intended, you shouldn't have to go to the owner of a network router and ask what the ip address or DNS should be. It should just pull all that information from the router/network/isp just like my laptop.
Like many others, I would find it really annoying to have to find some code to input every time I find a new network.
I'll probably try to reach apple tomorrow to mention this to them, but I'd love it if someone could put this into "rubber-meets-the-road" terminology and explain what the problem is.
dano
macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.10), iphone, 4gig black nano