Hey guys,
Thanks for all your messages, they've been of great help, although you only give hints of solutions, not the real solution itself. I'm sorry for the guy who says his Hero worked perfectly, but he's one in a million. The scenario is of worst-case kind, and coming here in the middle of the chaos saying "you're all wrong: the phone works perfectly" really doesn't help.
Although you've also given some good hints.
As far as I could see, there's no solution here in the forum, and there's no solution published yet. We're all gonna have to wait till the new OS is released.
I have a Belkin N Wireless model F5D8233-4v3 (01), great router for cable modems, 4 ethernet connections, two antennas, lots of features and easy to set-up.
Thru cable: an iMac G4 "lamp" and an AMD X2 PC (mostly for games LOL). Wireless: MacBook and the Hero.
When I first detected the issue (Hero connects when it wants, and for 1 to 4 minutes, then loses data transfer though still linked and connected!), I wrote to HTC. In the meantime I tried fixing the IP address on it, which worked for 5 to 10 minutes. But still lost connection. The next day HTC answers me teaching how to configure a wireless network on Hero, including fixed ip. Great...
Then I wondered if the password would be the problem. However my wireless network needs to be protected, so that solution wasn't for me. This afternoon I could connect it easily to a jurassic Linksys, which called my attention, and tonight I found out this thread thru google. It all made sense.
This version of the system really doesn't like N networks. But seems to go ok on B and G. The older the better - it's a collectionist hehehehe...
But there's no software update yet. With your comments about the firmware, though, I went and upgraded my Belkin firmware. Hero worked right away.
I just also killed my ethernet LOL... so the odissey started trying to recover all connections. After 1 hour of lots of resets and restores, I have my Belkin updated, cable nets working, and wireless working with WPA2 security, TKIP encriptation, and been listenning to kiss FM from Berlin for an hour now hehehehe...
I'm actually from Brazil, living in Spain, but I like German LOL.
So... some routers seem like they'll work with bios update, but thats definetely NOT a solution, just a patch. Am I gonna ask hotels, bars, restaurants, neighbors, to upgrade their routers so that I can connect wirelessly???? LOL³
Let's wait for this Hero update. We need a hero!!!!
But it's really a huge flaw from HTC, former Q-Tek, former Qualcomm... iPhone has it's flaws and had much more, but how come the HTC guys didn't test this before selling? Though when it's fixed, it's really hard to wish to move towards Apple.
One more thing: I'm an Apple user, defensor, certified trainer. But I know what's right and wrong hehehe.
Best regards, take care guys.
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