WiFi work well for you? Not for me...
My iPod Touch's Wi-Fi has never seemed very effective from day one on my home network or when roaming. Does it work better for others?
1st: My home network uses a D-Link wi-fi 802.11G router, with three computers attached (one iMac, one Dell laptop and one no-name PC). I'm on a different channel than my neighbours. Using a WEP key. v1.1.3 on the Touch.
Here's what I get...: Even sitting right next to my wireless router, most pages I try to load in Safari time out. It only seems to work normally with loading a page that has one picture and no text. I can get the Google home page pretty reliably, maybe in 5 seconds or so.
For many sites, I have to stop it and re-load 15-20 times and maybe... a page will then suddenly load. Many never do. Some pages work better like the Google page - but I don't see the pattern on when.
I've tried using the browser on other networks in public places and I get the same results.
I also just bought the upgrade, but the stock app times out (only ever worked once), the maps loaded eventually, I got 34 of my several hundred e-mails to load, YouTube app works more reliably than safari, the iTunes one never has, weather times out.
I'm going to get TimeCapsule when it comes out, and I have the (likely false) hope that using its Airport Extreme router will improve things and my Touch will work better. Is there something else I might be missing?
1st: My home network uses a D-Link wi-fi 802.11G router, with three computers attached (one iMac, one Dell laptop and one no-name PC). I'm on a different channel than my neighbours. Using a WEP key. v1.1.3 on the Touch.
Here's what I get...: Even sitting right next to my wireless router, most pages I try to load in Safari time out. It only seems to work normally with loading a page that has one picture and no text. I can get the Google home page pretty reliably, maybe in 5 seconds or so.
For many sites, I have to stop it and re-load 15-20 times and maybe... a page will then suddenly load. Many never do. Some pages work better like the Google page - but I don't see the pattern on when.
I've tried using the browser on other networks in public places and I get the same results.
I also just bought the upgrade, but the stock app times out (only ever worked once), the maps loaded eventually, I got 34 of my several hundred e-mails to load, YouTube app works more reliably than safari, the iTunes one never has, weather times out.
I'm going to get TimeCapsule when it comes out, and I have the (likely false) hope that using its Airport Extreme router will improve things and my Touch will work better. Is there something else I might be missing?
20" iMACtel, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iPod Touch v1.1.3
