iPhone 3GS not connecting to WiFi

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iPhone 3GS not connecting to WiFi

I own 2 iPhone 3GS that have been connected to my WiFi (Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN) since I purchased the phones in July 2010. 4 days ago, one of the phones stopped connecting. It recognized the network, and asked for my password. When I input the correct password, it comes back with 'incorrect password'. After repeating several times, just to make sure it wasn't a typo, I disconnected wifi from my other phone, repeated the above steps, and it connected just fine.

What the $%^& is up with my phone? P.S. Have not updated iOS to 4.3... still at 4.2.x

Thanks in advance for the assistance!

iPhone 3GS, iOS 4

Posted on Mar 20, 2011 8:57 AM

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Answer 1

JimHdk

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Mar 20, 2011 9:05 AM in response to chrisp5683

Try going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset network settings and then try to connect. Restarting your router may also help (power off/on)

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chrisp5683 Author

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Mar 20, 2011 2:49 PM in response to JimHdk

Thanks Jim... tried that before posting my question. Could there be any other items causing this?

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Mar 23, 2011 7:06 PM in response to chrisp5683

I am having a similar problem. My husband and I both have iphones and his will connect to wifi at home (ATT Uverse), mine won't. It shows it connected under settings but the top left of the main screen says 3g. I have reset the network setting and it still won't work. It will sometimes connect at work but goes in and out.

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jeff729

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Mar 24, 2011 9:19 AM in response to carincamille

I"m going to suggest go into your router settings and set security to WPA2 and change the encryption from TKIP+AES to just AES

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bldrmtn

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Mar 24, 2011 10:34 AM in response to jeff729

I am having the same problem. We replaced our Airport Extreme on March 17 and then this started. The computers on our network connect fine. The 3g iPhones and the iPod touches do not. I have reset the airport, reset the network settings on the phones, adjusted the router setting to WPA2, and it still does not work. There seem to be quite a few people having this problem. Is Apple doing anything about this?

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jeff729

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Mar 24, 2011 10:43 AM in response to bldrmtn

but did you change the encryption to just AES?

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@ndron

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May 7, 2011 1:19 PM in response to jeff729

jeff729,

Thanks !!! Had the same problem ! changed Encryption type to AES and now it's working fine ! no problems at all. Thanks again !

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