IPhone can't connect to wifi - one solution

Question

I have an original iPhone that has been having trouble finding and connecting to my home wifi network. Sometimes it saw the network, other times it didn't. Sometimes it required re-entering my network name & password, sometimes it didn't. I tried all of the usual resets & restores (both of the phone and of the wifi network) with no improvement. My wife's original iPhone finds and connects to the network just fine, so it seems to be something within my phone in particular.
After surfing the discussion groups and finding nothing that solved this issue, I stumbled on this seemingly easy fix. It works great for me - though as usual with stuff like this - your mileage may vary. It does no harm, so if your phone has issues it's worth a try...
This workaround presumes that you can connect to your network "sometimes". When you do manage a connection - here's what you're going to want to do:
Go into your Settings>Wifi and click on the blue arrow next to your network name. The page with the IP address should be visible, and the DCHP tab highlighted. If you've managed to connect to your network, the lines under this tab should be full of information - IP Address, Subnet Mask, etc...
Copy all of this info down.
Go to the Static tab and copy all of the info into the appropriate fields. Leave the Static tab highlighted and exit back to your homescreen.
That's it.
For me, immediately prior to discovering this workaround I rarely could get it to find my network, let alone connect, and when it did connect it'd drop frequently. Now my phone now finds my home network within 5 seconds of unlocking the phone and stays connected with a strong signal.
It didn't "fix" whatever caused the initial problem but as a workaround it's a solid solution - at least for my issue.
If you have poor/intermittent home wifi reception with your iPhone, give this a shot.

Answer 1

This is great! It's working for me @ home now...which was NEVER connecting before, unless I shook my phone, went back & forth into my settings to get our WiFi network & selected it.
Did you have issues connecting outside of your home? I used to have the "E" when not on my WiFi, but now cannot access e-mail or internet anywhere outside of my house, unless there is an AT&T WiFi hotspot somewhere...which NEVER happens. I'm VERY frustrated, because I got lost last week & couldn't even access the "Maps" section because it couldn't locate me! Couldn't access the internet to search the address I was looking for, because I was in the car & didn't have an AT&T hotspot. My GPS in the car wasn't working properly...very frustrating...can you offer any solutions?
Thanks! Tamara