I am connected to wifi, but 3G is still on the top??

We have two iPhone4's, my wifes and mine. I have wifi running on my phone, but my wifes doesn't want to connect to the same at home wifi we have. why?
3G costs me $$, where as wifi does not.
Thanks,
Blaine

Have you tried going into Wi-Fi and forgetting your network on her iPhone. Then go back into Settings and turn Wi-Fi back on and try to connect? You can also try and reset network settings. The only problem with that is it will forget all the other wi-fi networks she has connected to. Also, the user troubleshooting steps after that are:
Power iPhone off/on
Reset - by holding the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and release
Restore - from a backup
Restore - as a new phone
See if things work after each step before going on to the next one.

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