I don't know anything about apple routers, but I work with a wide variety of other routers on a daily basis. I would recommend changing your channel on the router. You should have channels 1-11 to choose from. experiment with higher and lower settings. If you are not using the Wireless N features, disable it and use the Wireless G and B options. From time to time I run into a situation like this and 9 times out of 10 this fixes it. As a last resort purchase a new router. Something heavily standardized like a Netgear or Linksys. I almost never have problems with these routers. Belkin routers in my opinion seem to have a lot of problems in this area. Hope this helps out.

Jack

 

Is it possible that the Hero itself could be interfering with a router? Even when WiFi is off on the Hero? I've been having occasional internet issues at home for the past couple months, and I'm curious if the Hero could be the culprit. I've tried changing the channels (Linksys WRT54g V8.2), but it doesn't seem to help.

So is it even possible for the hero to interfere with wireless internet if the phone is only communicating with the cell towers?

EDIT: That's with WiFi AND Mobile network turned off. The phone should only be communicating with the towers looking for phone calls

 

While on the topic i had a weird issue the other day... i was using my home wifi to browse the internet, but after about 5 minutes no matter if the screen shut off or anything my wifi signal icon would disappear from the notification bar however my wifi settings still show it to be on and running tried reconnecting numerous times with the same end result. anyone else ran into this problem? I have not had time to research this yet but was just curious if this sounds familiar to anyone out there.

 

I get a good 125 feet with my phone on a Netgear 54G router. I can wonder over to my neighbors house across the street and maintain a good connection. I am glad that helped out with your issue tatonka_Hero. Interesting handle you have there "tatonka_Hero" I think I will just refer to you as "Dances With Phone"

Jack

 

I think it might actually be a problem with my router. Setting a static ip seems to help a bit, but I think somethings still interfering with it

 

There is a free app called wifi analyzer in the market that shows a graph of the wifi channels near the phone. This is a great app for seeing devices that may be on the same channel and causing flooding of that channel. I use this app alot in home theater installs where many of the new remotes and whole house sound wireless in-wall keypads use these channels and can cause range issues for any units using the same or nearby channel.