Why is the WiFI such garbage??

[Graz]

I had the WiFi issues too but only with my home router. I turned off the mixed mode G/N and the problem went away. I dont have any N devices on my network so it wasnt a big deal. I had read this as a solution on another forum.

Hmm... I am rocking an N router... Maybe I should look if I can turn the N broadcast off since I'm only using N wired...

 

[radioz]

if you are having troubles at home, it might be interference from a neigbors router.

Download an app called 'wifinder'. Do a scan with it and check to see if there are other strong signals on the same channel as your router. If there is, they might be interfering with yours. Try reconfiguring your router to use a different channel.

This might help.

BTW wifinder is a great app!

 

[Garick]

I've had issues lately connecting to my home network, don't remember having them in the past. I have to reboot the router to get it to connect. I don't think I've had any issues connecting to a public network.

 

[QrafTee]

Sounds like OP's Droid is defective. I play with my friend's Droid all over the place--my house, his house, our friends' houses, public wifi areas--and it works well. Now to get my down Android phone.

 

[kennyidaho]

WiFi is smooth for me. I never turn it off.....leave the house the phone automatically connects to 3G if I end up in some other "known" wifi spot it connects automatically to that spot. When I get back home it automatically connects again. Works so well that I have essentially forgot all about it.

 

[CegAbq]

WiFi is smooth for me. I never turn it off.....leave the house the phone automatically connects to 3G if I end up in some other "known" wifi spot it connects automatically to that spot. When I get back home it automatically connects again. Works so well that I have essentially forgot all about it.

+1

 

[deftdrummer]

I've had wifi issues since day one with my droid. It still won't connect at work on an open access point, and frequently at home I have to actually click the wifi settings so that the phone will obtain an IP address. I also frequently get "page failed to load, no data connection" error.

None of these issues ever occur when I'm using Verizon's 3G network everywhere I go. So again, why is the Droid's WiFi capabilities so crappy? And yes, I'm comparing it to an iphone, which sadly....just works.

 

[Graz]

I've had wifi issues since day one with my droid. It still won't connect at work on an open access point, and frequently at home I have to actually click the wifi settings so that the phone will obtain an IP address. I also frequently get "page failed to load, no data connection" error.

None of these issues ever occur when I'm using Verizon's 3G network everywhere I go. So again, why is the Droid's WiFi capabilities so crappy? And yes, I'm comparing it to an iphone, which sadly....just works.

Same issues here, and my WinMo worked great too.

 

[ocman]

Have had my phone since day one and never had any wifi issues.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

 

[kratos]

The only issue I have is with the cisco wifi user agreement that i have to accept at work to gain internet access on the guest network. when I connect to the guest network, I have to open internet explorer to accept the agreement. When I open the internet explorer, it attempts to connect but instead I get the google error stating that the ip address could not be resolved.

 

[Graz]

So after getting overly frustrated of my wifi not staying connected I got Verizon to replace my phone. It came in yesterday and stayed connected the entire time at home with no disconnects.

Also at work I was never able to pick up the wifi with the old phone and now it picks it up with full strength!

 

[phobic]

Wow, I didn't realize we were the only ones... My wifi is horrible too, I constantly have to turn off and turn on wifi. Damn

Same here and I've owned 3 Droids. No matter though because I'll be jumping off the Droid ship whenever the Incredible is released

 

[barry99705]

I don't know if it was something in the update or not, but now I'm getting a fairly solid 4Mbps download speed here at work. I used to top out at 2Mbps.

 

[Wylecyot]

I have a Linksys/Cisco router at home, and was encountering the same problem. I was able to connect to WIFI with my wife's Droid, but could not seem to get mine working. I flashed the latest firmware upgrade on the router, and my problems went away. Just a thought...

 

[Polymira]

I have the "connected but not working" issue.

I love that so many people instantly say "somethings wrong with your phone, swap your phone, get a new phone .. phone phone phone".

Well, I will say this is my second droid, and the issue carried along from one to the next (at least at home). I use a WRT54GL with the latest Tomato firmware installed. I'm currently running Cyanogenmod on my droid, but this happens under stock as well.

I will connect to the router, all is well... but eventually i will hop back on my phone and all data fails. If i turn wifi off it all works, if I turn it back on it works again ... until later.

I've had multiple devices using this router (iPhone, Nintendo DS, HTC Hero, Droid, macbook pro, asus notebook, other router, etc), I've had encryptions OFF, i currently have wpa2 ON... but it doesn't matter, no matter what I do this problem happens for my droid, but none of my other devices.

it's very annoying... i tend to only turn wifi on now when I need to use droidremote or boxeeremote

 

[G.Armour]

My wifi also works great.

Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk

 

[Optimus]

wifi is working better for me after the update...before it was just staright @ss.

 

[padrone00]

i've got the eris and since i went to the latest 2.1 leak i have noticed a much improved wifi signal catch. since 2.1 there has only been one time that i had to go in and tell it to "connect" because it failed to make a connection. and that is both at home and at work.