Phone connects to wireless but can't get on internet??

valve90210

valve90210

valve90210

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Hi All

I got my first Android phone yesterday and have started to play with it a little.

First thing I did was to get it to connect to my home wireless. It seemed to have done this fine and was showing as connected on the phone however, nothing that required an internet connection was working, no internet, no connecting to google mail etc.

I restarted the router and it all started working fine.

After a few minutes, maybe half an hour or so it stopped working again until I restarted the router again.

I wondered if I should get the router to give the phone the same IP address every time so I ticked that box in the config and applied it, since then the phone has not managed to connect to the wifi at all, it just says obtaining IP address from speedtouch v585 (my router) then disconnects.

Can anyone helpo me out getting this silly problem sorted, as I'm rather at a loss at to what the problem is.

Valve
 
ANyone able to explain this to a total spanner? I'm really struggling to get this working, nothing I do seems to get the phone connecting to my router now.

Finally I have managed to get the phone connected to the wireless network but it still is unable to see the internet. Clearly the router is the problem but I don't know what is causing the problem?

My old W705 worked perfectly when I used to use that to connect to wifi, as does my laptop, can anyone point me in the right direction for any commen problems that can cause this? I really have no idea.

Any help much appreciated.
 
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Having managed to get the phone connectd to the router, it still didn't connect to the internet.

I tried an app called phone tester which should that the phone had no external IP address. I tried an option on the router called assign public IP address to device, which seems to have stopped the phone connecting to the router.

Several restarts of the router later and unassigning the public IP of the router from the phone, the phone is now connecting to the router again. But still not getting an external ip address. I am really frustrated it surely shouldn't be this difficult to get a phone connected to the internet via wireless???

My old W705 was so simple, all I had to do was enter the security code and bang, it was connected and I had web access.

Can anyone at all help me?
 
Do all your other computers connect via DHCP. ie they just set themselves up automatically?

Do you have something stupid like MAC filtering turned on on the router?
 
AHHHHHHHH....

It's driven me totally mental but I've finally got it sorted.

@yashiro - yeah, my laptop and my old phone connected really easily, I just entered the security code and off I went.

I think I have finally sorted this, I've manually entered all the same settings as my laptop and just changed the ip address slightly to make it different and it now 'seems' to be working, keep your fingers fimrly crossed!!!
 
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