Has anyone successfully connected to an Airport Express with WEP encryption with the Touchpad?
From my understanding, the Airport Express has WPA/WPA2, but only apple products can connect to these, and all other products must connect with WEP. I don't like having to connect through WEP but, I must (it's my roommate's internet service and router). I have vaguely seen on the forums that the Touchpad has problem connecting to WEP, but nothing really useful.
Maybe I can put another router as a bridge to broadcast WPA?
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I don't really use WiFi so it's not that big of a deal but for some reason, when I do try to turn it on, it looks for a network, does find something, but then immediately shuts itself down before actually connecting to anything... Not sure what I did to cause this. Anyone have any ideas?
I've found the wifi chip to be extremely picky. I had an older SMC b router, and my TP would find it, try to connect but ultimately time out, while my Mogul would connect no problems. I bought a Buffalo b/g router and all is now good.
I also am hit or miss with the TP with hotspots. But if you can NEVER wirelessly connect you may have a defective wifi chip. There have been some threads in other communities where this was the case.
Well I ended up hard-resetting my device and the WiFi now stays connected... I must have changed some registry setting at one point...
I apologize if this has been discussed previously, but I did search and didn't find anything.
I travel quite a bit and it is surprising how many hotels still don't have wireless in the rooms. Most have an ethernet connection available and I carry a long cable. Is there a dongle or other solution for connecting the Sony S? I am getting a travel wireless modem, but hate having to carry more stuff.
Thanks,
Roger Harper
Now on my 3rd HTC One and all have same issue. It will not connect to my router. The router is an old linksys 54 mbps. Spent hours with t'mobile and htc. Everyone says it has to be the router but I suspect the One has software issues they aren't admitting or are aware of.
The One is the only device that will not connect to the router. iphone 5, galaxy s4, laptops, apple tv, wii, etc all do just fine. Yes I tried disconnecting all devices changing password and still no connection.
The One will connect when I completely remove the security. WPA back on One's connection back off.
When I try to connect it goes through Authenticating, Obtaining IP again and again and eventually gives "network avoided due to poor internet connection"
I also got this 2 times when trying to connect to the secured wireless at the local coffee shop but 3rd time it connected.
On another note..On three separate occasions I have plugged the phone into my laptop to charge and when I come back after a while my computer has "improperly shut down".
I love the phone otherwise and wish I could use it.
Thanks for any help
Hello All -
Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been trying for weeks to fix an issue I have with my Samsung Galaxy S5. Currently I have a Netgear wnr1000v2 router connected to an Arris Touchstone DOCSIS 3.0 modem (Comcast). The modem is located in my basement and my home has an Ethernet ports in every room. That being said, my modem has a Ethernet cable that ties in directly to the port to my office on the second floor of my home, no other jacks are active but the one leading from the basement to my office. The Netgear WNR100v2 is connected directly into the jack and I have another Ethernet cable going directly to my desktop. My wife has a laptop that is on the first floor of the home and there is no problem with that connection, we even can go outside. When I do speed tests on my desktop, they average about 15-25ms ping, a down speed ~90mbps and an up speed of 11-12mbps, all GB of course. My laptop has the same ping and up speed but the down runs about 40-50mbps.
This is where things get strange. I installed a the Netgear WiFi Analytics app on my S5 and I get 100% signal but it varies from 35-65mbps. I would be ok with that if it was true. Something very odd happens when I try to search the web, go on facebook, youtube or any other site or application. It just clocks and clocks and pictures never come up. I can easily switch on to 4G LTE (verizon wireless) and boom everything is there no problem. If I visit someone else's home with a wireless network, when I connect, everything is fine.
I have changed my wireless channels to 1, 3, 6, and 11, identified that I am the only network using channel 6 or 11 and although that has actually sped up my laptop connections, it has done nothing for my S5 smartphone. I only use WPA2/AES which again by taking away the TKIP with WPA2, it has sped up the laptop, but nothing for the phone. My signal strength on the phone when I am 5 feet from the router is around -35 to 40 dBm, and does not vary much until I go outside the home. I can go into 90% of the home and still get those numbers. I have unplugged the batteries in my cordless home phones, nothing. Turned off home alarm, nothing. Even other people's cell phones are slow in my home.
I do work out of the home so I have no reason not to connect to my home wifi and reserve the data for when I leave the home. One other caveat, is my work, for some strange reason requires me to have DSL for my work connection, but I put that on channel 1 and the home cable is on channel 11. They are, however, in the same room but I do not thing it would make a huge difference....I turned that off too and still no improvement.
So, I am at a loss....I have been playing with the wifi settings for weeks and I am not getting anywhere. Thanks in advance for any help, advice, or suggestions!
Chris
Kinda sounds like a dns issue. Not so much a speed/connection problem, but that would probably cause same trouble on other devices. Router should just get dns info from the modem. For laughs, see if anything is set in the router for dns. Should be blank. Same on your s5.
I thought I would take a moment and share what I have experienced recently with my home network connection.
I got a new Internet service provider since the local one I was using had too many dropped connections and my job depends on being online. But at least the modem was in the office and I could use an Ethernet cable to connect to my desktop computer to the Internet without using WIFI. This has not been the case with my new connection. The modem was in the living room. So I had to find a way to connect my desktop computer using wifi. This meant I had to buy a stick-like device and plug it into a USB port as a sort of antenna
But I had issues with this. Sometimes the connection dropped. After a while I have resorted to having an Ethernet cable go from my living room to my office. And this is where I am now. Any thoughts? It works. And, as the expression goes, "if it is not broken, don't fix it" but maybe I should be looking ahead to a better solution.
I was thinking about a wifi booster. But, on the other hand, is there nothing better or faster than having a direct and hard wired connection?