Help Keeps disconnecting from wifi

[peterjmay]

Ever since the update my dhd keeps disconnecting from my wifi at home. Before gingerbread it used to stay solidly connected to wifi. Anything I can do?

 

[El Presidente]

It's a common fault with the GB update. You can try turning off 3G whilst at home or using a static IP address, that's been known to correct the problem.

 

[fishphone]

Can verify the static IP route has worked for me.

 

[peterjmay]

How do I use a static ip....what does that mean?

 

[El Presidente]

An IP address is the number your router assigns devices to identify them on the network. They look like this xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx is any number between 1 & 255).

Via something called DHCP, your router will automatically assign an IP address to any device that connects to it. Assigning a device a Static IP tells both the device and your router to to always use that number. in theory, as long as no other device on the network is using that number, it should connect with no problems.

Why assigning yourself a static IP is a potential fix for the DHD WiFi issues, I don't know. But if you want to know how to assign yourself one, check here.

 

[tomsutton529]

To get round any up clashes you can tell the router to reserve a certain ip for a certain device.