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col37400 is offline col37400
2010-07-25 , 09:33
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For the past few days I've been unable to connect to my home Wifi with the N900.

It will seemingly connect to the router (the wifi symbol will appear in the top bar) but then when I try to go to a web page it just sits there with the little progress bar going back and forth until it says "server not found - MicroB can't find the server at [url]".

It's not to do with a specific web page - it won't load anything.

Laptops are connecting fine to the Wifi, as is one computer on an ethernet cable.

Same happens in MicroB and Opera Mobile.

I've tried resetting the router.

It used to work fine.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?
Last edited by col37400; 2010-07-25 at 20:20.
 
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2010-07-25 , 12:44
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#2
Try deleting the connection in settings>internet connections, and re-edding it.
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col37400 is offline col37400
2010-07-25 , 20:14
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Yeah I've tried that, but it doesn't make any difference unfortunately.
 
dsawhney is offline dsawhney
2010-07-25 , 20:46
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Are you using a dynamic IP ? What's the output of /sbin/ifconfig in xterm ?

Can you ping/nslookup a server from xterm ?
 
Ghule is offline Ghule
2010-07-25 , 20:58
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I have problems like that. I have 2 routers to expand my coverage in the house. One is used as the repeater. If I connect to the repeater my wifi will connect but not work. If I connect to the main router my wifi works.

Before I figured out connecting to the main router fixed my problem I found that if I connected to my cell phone internet and began to download a page like youtube and switch over to wifi in the middle of the download my wifi would work even connecting to the repeater.

Oh... on a side note. My repeater is in the room with me.
There is at least 5 other devices in the room besides my n900 that is using it. So that might have been messing with signal too.
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col37400 is offline col37400
2010-07-25 , 21:37
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Originally Posted by dsawhney View Post
Are you using a dynamic IP ? What's the output of /sbin/ifconfig in xterm ?
Code:
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ /sbin/ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:3285 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3285 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:361875 (353.3 KiB)  TX bytes:361875 (353.3 KiB)

phonet0   Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 15-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:4000  Metric:1
          RX packets:114960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:69932 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:52194304 (49.7 MiB)  TX bytes:5049146 (4.8 MiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 0C:DD:EF:FC:2D:DF  
          inet addr:192.168.1.64  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::edd:efff:fefc:2ddf/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:21019 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:17969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:8290999 (7.9 MiB)  TX bytes:2179992 (2.0 MiB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1F-DF-15-79-F6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

~ $


Can you ping/nslookup a server from xterm ?
Not 100% sure what this means I'm afraid! What do I need to do?
 
col37400 is offline col37400
2010-07-25 , 21:44
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Originally Posted by Ghule View Post

Before I figured out connecting to the main router fixed my problem I found that if I connected to my cell phone internet and began to download a page like youtube and switch over to wifi in the middle of the download my wifi would work even connecting to the repeater.
This doesn't seem to work in my situation.
 
shadowjk is offline shadowjk
2010-07-26 , 00:31
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Out of idle interest, Does the repeater work if you turn off wifi poersaving on your n900?
 
droll is offline droll
2010-07-26 , 01:11
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#9
has anything changed?? any change in hardware setup? what about software? did you install anything new on the n900?
 
col37400 is offline col37400
2010-07-26 , 01:17
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Hmmm... I've just turned the n900 off, swapped batteries, turned it on again and the wifi seems to be working again. Strange...had tried turning it off/on several times before but with no success.

Oh well, problem solved, for now...
 
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