Everytime i connect to the wifi with the htc hero it knocks the internet down in every computer at work.. Why in the world will this happen? I tried both static IP and without it... Same thing... Can the phone be acting a modem?
you should have kept it quiet and blamed it on someone in the office surfing porn, i guarantee someone would have admitted to it!!
If a single wireless device can bring the connection down, something is definitely wrong with the network setup, not with the device. The only marginally acceptable reason would be if you had some app running on the phone which saturates download and/or upload bandwidth of your dad's internet connection - and even then, shared Internet connections should have rate limiting to disallow this.
I downloaded the app "myIP" Can i use that IP to mess with it within the router set up? I had other phones and they all worked fine with the router but this one..
You should look into the settings on your wireless router. Perhaps it needs a firmware upgrade. Or maybe the encryption settings are throwing something off. I'd start with the firmware upgrade just because you wont have to go and reconfigure all the computers on the wireless (make sure to back up the settings though).
The Hero doesnt play nicely with 802.11n networks, often when i tried to connect to my netgear DG834N router it crashed the router. Restricting the router to 802.11b/g fixed the problem. There are quite a few threads relating to this now, so its a fairly common problem. You could argue that the router shouldnt crash, which is fair enough, but the hero is doing something VERY wrong regardless, since i have plenty of other devices connected to the router without problems. Waiting for a fix for this from HTC.
I've got two Wireless-N routers, and my Hero connects to either of them just fine. One is a D-Link something or other with 300n, and the other is Airlink 670W with 150n. I realize that there are a lot of other Wireless-N routers out there, but so far, my experience is 100% compatibility.
Hmmm... maybe it's only some models of router. I know i'm not the only person that's had problems with the DG834N, but i've also seen threads that imply that it's a more general 802.11n problem, and i've also had an email from HTC that implies this is a problem and theyre working on it.
As the email stated, the 802.11n standard was only ratified by the IEEE a few weeks ago. Hopefully now that it's set in stone the hardware manufacturers will all update their "Draft-N" firmwares to ensure 100% compatibility.
