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this is just so odd.....my dh and i got our phones at the same time... His works just fine with our home network,where mine does what has been mentioned here. The only difference in our phones are his is a 4gig and mine is the 8gig. What about everyone else?

Thank you or so much.

mine i still not working. my wireless router is a belkin. Any other thoughts?

macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.10) 2gigs of ram

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!
I've been dealing with this issue since I bought the iPhone.
Tech support could not help me either.
I think it would help others to mention that you must select the network, click the arrow next to it and then choose "Forget this Network" first (if you have what looks like a good connection to WiFi).
Then look for the network again, choose it and then go through the password/security steps that you brilliantly figured out.

Thanks again

I did this on my office network. But for me, I had to put a the "$" sign in front of my HEX password. Now it works perfectly. Love it!!!

I have a WEP hex keyed network, and I had problems with it "remembering" the password until I put a $ sign at the beginning as has been discussed. Funny, I have a Netscape wireless router at home and at the office, and the one at home didn't need the $ sign, but the office did. Go figure!!

Thanks --it worked for me

This worked for me thanks! When I first tried to use to my wifi I called Linksys for help with this. They didn't know what was wrong, so I unlocked my wifi. Now I have it secured again. Thanks!

After changing everything as described, the lock beside the network goes away, but then i get the spining timer and then the network relocks and I'm right back where I started.
It seems as if the iPhone does not save the correct info.

Mac OS X (10.4.10)

useful information!! BUMP!!

I have done everything as described here, and it's still not working. Further thoughts/ideas are appreciated.

The advice here has been consistent with my experience. 2 other things to note/check:

1. If there is a question about whether or not you are actually connected to a wifi network, go back to settings, Wifi and then tap the blue arrow on the network name that it appears you are connected to. You should see at a minimum an ip address and in some cases, subnet mask, router ip and dns. Not sure under which conditions you see the all listings - could be all the time maybe someone else can verify - but in all cases no ip address, no internet connection.

2. If you are on a wifi network that requires a login, such as paid for hotspot at airport, coffee shop etc, you may see everything that I mentioned in #1 but you still need to start up safari and login to the wifi network to either enter you credentials or pay - whatever the set-up. I find this particularly confusing as everything looks OK, you get the wifi icon on phone, you get ip details in settings but nothing works, especially since I tend to check mail first and not go to safari.

It seems clear that the whole area of wifi on the phone is one that needs a lot of work but these are all fixable problems, mostly around giving better user feedback and simplifying things like key type. My IBM laptop has great software for this and wifi logon is a breeze no matter where I am. I'm hoping this is an area apple with put some effort into for updates.

Two words: "BLESS", "YOU". 🙂

MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I first started researching this problem when I noticed my iPhone would not connect through the wireless router at home, and would give me a Safari error about not opening a page.

I think I have tried many of these suggestions, including:
1. resetting my router password
2. power cycling router
3. changing security format to ASCII/HEX (note this setting keeps switching back to WEP)
4. inserting $ in password field
5. airplane mode off/on
6. power down iPhone
7. selecting "forget network" and then re-joining

After I enter the password and press join, it appears I am connecting, but once in Safari, the E for Edge is still present.

In the Wi-Fi Networks screen, the network I have entered the password for loses the pw lock and then it shows up again. Sometimes the pw lock goes away, but if I enter Safari, still on E for Edge.

Sometimes, if I go to settings, I notice the IP addr is "16x.x.x.x" format, but it is not always there.

I do not know if it matters, but I have a 2Wire router from SBC DSL.

Why is my MacBook so easy to connect to the same wireless router, but my iPhone will not?

I love my iPhone, please tell me I am not going crazy and there is a solution I have not tried. I have spent 3 hours on this today.

THANKS!

MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.10) iPhone 8GB

Thanks! I wondered why my WAN connections seemed so slow, turns out I was connecting through EDGE! Would be nice if when selecting the Hex key that the keyboard would change to show all HEX characters on one keyboard.