My phone is having problems connecting to wifi networks

Hi I have the blackberry curve 3G smart phone and for the past week it has been connected to the local wifi at my accomadation in phuket. I am from South Africa and my service provider failed to activate my international roaming so I was using the wifi for BBM. It would automatically connect perfectly everytime I arrived at my bungalow (and yes BIS is part of my cellular package) and has been active for atleast a year so far. For some reason today it is unable to connect. it says " failed to obtain an IP address" . after attempting to connect multiple times it states "Device failed to acquire an IP address. The failiure could be due to an incorrect WEP key.", I have checked the WEP key multiple times on my laptop and Im entering the correct one into my black berry.
Here is what I have tried so far:
- Turning the phone on and off
- Removing the battery and re-inserting it
- I have tried manually connecting to the network
- I have tried connecting with the phone set to "automatically obtain IP address and DNS"
- De-activating "automatically obtain IP address and DNS" and entering the IP address myself, once i have done this it states that I am connected to the network but I am still unable to use my internet browser and instant messaging services.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

I bought my iPhone 3 days ago, and am also having trouble connecting to ANY wifi networks. The iphone scans for networks, sees them, but fails to latch on once the connect buttn is selected. I've called iPhone tech support and ran through a multitude of tests with them, including full system restores, trying the main power switch, flight mode toggles etc..
The conclusion from iPhone telephone support was that the unit is faulty and needs to be returned to be checked out.
I'm starting to wonder with the numerous wifi connection problem reports I've found on the web about others having trouble, whether this product was rushed to market with half baked software...

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