Cant play over wifi on 3gs

Hubby and I both have the iphone 3gs. When we try to play games from the app store and play peer to peer we can never join a game. Even just trying to direct connect over our home network doesnt work. Sometimes the other player will flash on the screen for a second then disappear. I have been trying to get this working for a week now. We have different static ips on our iphones so thats ok. We can both surf fine over the internet using wifi too.
On our previous iphones we could 2 player games over wifi fine.
Has anyone got a clue what might be happening?

My wife and I had the same problem. I discovered going into Airplane Mode then turning on our Local WiFi connection works great. But you must stay in airplane mode while playing. We have 2 3Gs's also, and we haven't changed our local network from when we had 2 of the original 2G iPhones. And the 2G iPhones worked well without turning on airplane mode. Apparently 3Gs seems to have Radio issues. Hope that helps.

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Can music in the cloud only be played over wifi?

As a fitness instructor, my iphone is on airplane mode while teaching but when I do this my music disappears! How can I still play my music without downloading it onto my iPhone?

If your music is not on your iPhone, then it needs an internet connection to access it whether it is through wifi or your Cell service Data plan.
when there's no Wifi around, and you put the iPone in airplane mode, you are turning every connection on the phone to the outside world off, so the iPhone has no way of getting to your music if its not on the phone.
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Actually, after two days of it not working and while I was on the phone waiting to talk to someone at AppleCare,, it started working. I have no idea why, the only thing that might changes I turned Bluetooth off on my iPad. However it started working on my iPhone again and Bluetooth is always on on that device. Either it was something really strange with the Wi-Fi sessions, or something got changed about how iOS devices access iPad that day.
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I have been having major problems with youtube over wifi, same as many on this forum. Youtube videos constantly buffer (start/stop) or play very slow over wifi, butplay fine over 3G. I have read many posts about this and have tried everything. The solution I found that works %100 every time (for me anyway)was to change my wireless key from WEP to WPA. Many users suggest downgrading to 802.11b, which I did but it made no difference. Once I changed the key from WEP to WPA it made no difference if the network was at B,G or B/G mixed. The dummies at apple tech told me it was hardware and I should exchange my phone. So much for tech support. Hope this helps!!

Yep, same problem! I have 30 mbps on Macbook with my Wifi speed test and on mobile speed test I get 11.6 mbps download and 0.94 upload. I have the same exact problem. Youtube is extremely slow. I also don't have the luxury to switch to WEP since I have an airport extreme which DOESN'T HAVE A WEP OPTION. Maybe I should stop buying apple products all together! Called apple support the guy told me to switch the channels from auto to manual and pick different channels on my airport extreme. Everything else seem to have improved except YouTube. It is dreadfully slow and I constantly need to switch to 3Gs to watch grainy videos. This is unacceptable!

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i cant download apps throgh wifi on my iphone however when i connect to cellular data it starts downloading. then what is wrong over wifi , i tried reset network setting but i didnt help

Definitely sounds like an issue with your Wi-Fi network. Do any other devices on the network have similar issues? Is it an issue only with downloading apps? You can check by trying to load a website in Safari.
I would try turning your Wi-Fi router off for 1 minute, and back on again.
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Are you saying that neither of you will have wi-fi at your homes ? If not, will you both have 3G models ?
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Play music from itunes over wifi on iphone (as soundbridge to Hi-FI)

Hey you all,
is there a tool around to play music over wifi on the iphone?
i have connected the iphone via the dockingstation to my hifi system.
so i can listen to internet streams and so on without using a cable from macbook to my hifi system....
but now i want to play all my music from itunes or another program on my iphone.
hope you know what i want...
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I am not aware of any utility which will stream music from iTunes to the iPhone.
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320N Freezes when trying to transfer data over wifi

I have the 320N and I am very frusterated. I would just take it back, but I bought it brand new on Amazon.com, meaning I will have to pay shipping because I threw out the box and the return shipping form for RMA's! I don't even know if Amazon will take it back without that paperwork, but anyway here's the issue...
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It doesn't even have to be a large file over wifi to transfer. Just now as I'm typing this post I noticed the constant ping on my other monitor started timing out. I power cycled the router in time for me to submit this post. In fact I had to do it three times in the time it took me to write this post. This is the most frustrating experience I've had with any wifi ap/router, and I play with Cisco gear at work that run real IOS.
Here's what I tried so far.
Reset factory defaults by holding in the rear reset button for over 30 seconds.
I can confirm this resets the defaults as the password and all other settings are back to default.
I tried WPA2 Personal. I tried WPA. Router still freezes.
I tried it with just the default settings. Router still freezes.
I've reset the router numerous times. Still freezes.
Power cycle it for more than a minute. Still freezes.
Reflash it with Linksys's latest firmware. Still freezes.
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Do I void my warranty, open the device up and put the board in the oven?
Do I buy another router from a closer store, but then put this one in the box and take it back?
Do I just cut my losses?
Do I just use this as a wired router (disable Wifi) and hook up my WRT-54g and make that act as just an access point?
Thanks for the advice.
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Is there any way to move a file or something from one computer to another that will let the new computer backup my iphone over wifi? I don't want to have to sync my phone to the new computer (my sons computer).

Hi,
I have my iphone 3GS setup to be able to backup and sync with my computer over wifi. But I want to be able to backup to my sons computer also.
The things is I don't want to have to sync to his computer first to do this. Is there a file or something I can move from my computer that is setup to his that would let his see my iphone over wifi?

If you don't have access to the old computer any longer, '''no'''. Unless you were using something like the Google Toolbar & Google Bookmarks or Xmarks, which would have your bookmarks in an online account that you could access. Firefox doesn't include an online storage feature for personal data, yet. That is coming in a future version.
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I put a bunch of new music on iTunes yesterday from old CD's I had and when I went to sync it showed it did, but when I went to play my music on my iPhone all the songs were just grayed out so I couldn't click on them....
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I'm using iTunes on my Windows 7 laptop. I also have an iPad it won't sync with either.
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