Iphone 4S wifi problem

Ok, just wanted to add my two cents.

I have been having all the same connectivity issues listed above. I actually bought a be Motorola SB6121 cable modem and updated my old Airport Extreme to a new 5th gen edition. My iMac Internet works great, and my grandmother's iMac works great downstairs. Other external devices, however, were having connectivity issues, my PS3 and my iPhone 4s in particular. I tried changing channels and this provided only about 10 minutes of relief as mentioned above. I reset everything a number of times, nothing worked.

I did some research on the PS3 issue and found a thread that instructed me to enter a specific dpna ID, and voila! Problem solved. I suspect that this issue may have been related to the new network, but I am not positive. This left the iPhone issue.

On a whim, I decided to setup a guest network on my Airport and try that. For whatever reason, this has fixed my problem, at least temporarily. I have been logged into the guest ID all day and it is still cruising. This may not hold for the long haul, but thus far I am having great success.

I figured I'd share this for those of you who may be more knowledgable than me and might be able to determine something from this workaround. Also, for those of you, like me, who have limited network comprehension, but would like at least a temporary fix for your wifi.

Thanks Jim

Jim,

You note, "I did some research on the PS3 issue and found a thread that instructed me to enter a specific dpna ID, and voila!"

...sounds promising. Could you point us to that thread, or the procedure? I have no idea what a dpna ID is or how to access it. Googling is turning up no answers either.

As to your iPhone, I gather than setting it up on your guest network has resolved the problems you had on your normal network. Intriguingly, others have noted that forgetting a network and then re-connecting to it has solved their issues, at least for a while. I'm wondering if you tried that. To my eye, signing onto a new network is pretty much the same thing.

My apologies, it was not dpna, it was DNS IDs that I manually updated.

Here is the link:

http://www.ps3errorcodesfix.com/ps3-error-80710102

To answer your question, I did forget the network multiple times and sign in again; it never worked for more than a few minutes. I reset my phone, my modem, my router, changed channels, none of this helped. I am typing this message now on my iPhone over wifi and it is still working great.

One thing I noticed is that when I hit the arrow to the right of the guest network inn my iPhone settings I show very different IDs in the IP address, Router, and DNS sections, than I was seeing in my normal network settings. The normal network was showing something like 10.0.0.1. The numbers I have in the guest network seem more intricate for lack of a better term.

For this strange IP, i think it should be there as the wifi connection can't establish to obtain a valid IP from the router.

I have just switched from iPhone 4 to 4S. I encountered the same issue only in 4S. I'm still not sure whether it happens occasionally or there is pattern. Hope everything will be fine!!

Problematic device: 4S with iOS 5.01

Thanks for the detailed information. Do you have any solution so far?

I have just encountered the first disconnection from my 4S with iOS 5.0.1. I tried to fix this by first, Forget the network and rejoin. It didn't work. Second, I restarted the router but the wifi connection wasn't established automatically after router is up. Finally, I have to Forget the network and rejoin it. It remains connected until this moment (for ~50mins at the same location) Hope it's really fixed!!!

where is the "forget the network" option? because i just got the 4s and cannot connect to my wifi, keeps spinning..

ic, the button is only available after connecting with the router. For your case, you may try to Reset Network Setting in General -> Reset

However, I am not sure if it will help. Otherwise, you could try to restart the router if possible.

i actually read somewhere that if u turn off the cellular data and try to connect to wifi it will work and surprisingly enough it WORKED. I dont want to bash at&t but it makes me wonder if this was intentionally done. Since there is no more unlimited data, would it be in THEIR best interest to make the wifi a bit 'screwy' so that all ur usage goes through via the data instead of the wifi. I have spoken to a few of my other friends who have the 4s with verizon and sprint and none of them have this issue.

dear apple team: i have purchased iphone 4S but just after 4 days when i was using my wifi then accidently it powered off and now i am trying to connect again it and trying this more then 400 times but still invail. i have read all the data given at all discussion on the web but NOT SUCCEED. I AM USING IPHONE FOR LAST 2 YEARS BEFORE IT I WAS USING IPHONE 3GS BUT I DIDNOT HAVE THIS ISSUE NOW I HAVE IPHONE 4S BUT WHY IT HAS I AM VERY MUCH DEPRESS WITH THIS PHONE.

CAN ANYONE SUPPORT ME?? I HAVE DONE THE BELOW THINGS BUT NOT SUCCEED.

1. RESET NETWORKING SETTING

2. RESET ALL SETTINGS

3. TRY TO CONNECT WITH MANY NETWORKS ( MORE THEN 6 IN NOS)

4. BLUE TOOTH ON & OFF

5. TRY ALL THINGS WHICH ARE AVAILABLE ON WEB

GIVE ME SOLUTION AS AFTER THAT I HAVE ONLY ONE SOLUTION TO PUT THIS IPHONE ON ROAD AND DRIVE CAR ON IT AS I HAVE LOST 500 POUNDS ON IT.

dear apple team: i have purchased iphone 4S but just after 4 days when i was using my wifi then accidently it powered off and now i am trying to connect again it and trying this more then 400 times but still invail. i have read all the data given at all discussion on the web but NOT SUCCEED. I AM USING IPHONE FOR LAST 2 YEARS BEFORE IT I WAS USING IPHONE 3GS BUT I DIDNOT HAVE THIS ISSUE NOW I HAVE IPHONE 4S BUT WHY IT HAS I AM VERY MUCH DEPRESS WITH THIS PHONE.

CAN ANYONE SUPPORT ME?? I HAVE DONE THE BELOW THINGS BUT NOT SUCCEED.

1. RESET NETWORKING SETTING

2. RESET ALL SETTINGS

3. TRY TO CONNECT WITH MANY NETWORKS ( MORE THEN 6 IN NOS)

4. BLUE TOOTH ON & OFF

5. TRY ALL THINGS WHICH ARE AVAILABLE ON WEB

GIVE ME SOLUTION AS AFTER THAT I HAVE ONLY ONE SOLUTION TO PUT THIS IPHONE ON ROAD AND DRIVE CAR ON IT AS I HAVE LOST 500 POUNDS ON IT

iOS 5.x is a very buggy OS.

Apple has a lot of issues with battery, signal drops and wi-fi, plus a lot of hardware issues with iPhone 4S.

It seems they are losing control of the ecosystem they build.

I have this problem too. The best thing to do is keep swaping your phones and calling Apple.

By swaping your phones, the issue will be noticed when they have a lot of returns for the exact same problem!

Every phone swap is noted and logged. Until Apple comes clean like they have with the battery issue, this issue won't be resolved!

Go to apple.com/feedback and fill out the feedback form on iPhone. Call Applecare and go to an Apple store.

I have swapped my iPhone already and same issue. After so many swaps, Apple will see it as either an OS or hardware issue!

I am very disappointed with my new 4s: I need WiFi up all the time. Evidently Steve Jobs is no longer here to keep the quality up or the company from going down! I am seriously thinking of switching to an Android device if this is not fixed by the coming week.

Got the transmission power on your router to 75% or 50%. I have had stable service on both public and private wifi networks without a drop. But besides my suggested fix I would be interested to hear from those of you who simply reduce the transmit power on their routers and then reboot the iPhone and see if your wifi works better.

I have the same problem except that my wifi just last for like 1-2 minutes for every reset!! anyone had a solution yet?

saw this on another thread and it worked for me........

(I did a "forget" of all my networks and started from scratch. So far things have been stable. Two networks that I used for test purposes at work had the same password. Not sure if that caused an issue or conflict. I can't imagine why it would as the SSIDs were different.

Anyway, I haven't noticed any problems since yesterday.)