If Your iPod Cannot Connect to Wireless Networks Read on
If you find your iPod cannot connect to wireless networks you
are not alone, there seems to be lots of iPhone and iPod wifi
issues around at the moment.
the majority of the problems seem
to affect the iPod 2g or 2nd generation running
firmware 2.2.1
After experiencing the issue
myself I decided to put together a list of possible fixes as
there does not seem to be a single way of resolving this making
it very hard to pinpoint.
The most bizarre thing is my iPod
will connect to one wireless network without a problem, and will
consistently fail to connect to another, and then will totally
fail to connect to another network, all of which are running the
same network security authentication, this seems to be the case
with many iPod connection issues.
These symptoms
include
Cannot connect to WEP protected
networks, but can connect to WPA
The opposite, can connect to WEP, but cannot connect to WPA
Cannot connect to either.
Can connect to the wireless network but still cannot browse.
iPod cannot connect
to wireless network resolutions and fixes
If you have not done so already,
make sure you have reset your iPod and router, also make sure
other devices can connect to your router and browse the web.
If your router has mac address
authentication enabled ensure you add your iPods mac address to
the access list.
Reset your iPods network settings
from Settings – General – Reset – Reset network settings, this
will just erase any network settings not another other data.
Connect manually to your wireless
network – Enter the network name and wifi key
Attempt to connect to another
wireless network even if you have no access and then when it
fails connects to yours, this seems to reset some of the network
preferences.
One other thing we found to work
is to add the network credentials manually select any network
security type WPA or WEP, then try to connect when this fails
then choose the other type regardless of whether your network is
WEP or WPA encrypted and try the connection again. I’m not sure
why this works, but it is almost as though the iPod cannot
determine the correct network security type. This was the method
that worked for me, although every so often it will fail to
connect again, but by re-entering the WEP key and selecting WEP
and then WPA it will connect again.
The last method I have found to
work is to use a third party piece of software called WiFinder ,
but this does mean getting your iPod to connect to the internet
somehow, but this does give more information on the type of
network security, signal strength etc.
Notes
So on the whole many
of the fixes provided here could be considered workarounds. As
we find new information, in particularly a definitive fix which
will probably be in the shape of the next firmware update we
will add this to the article.
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