To everyone that has "server not responding" when wifi is connected, read.

For the 2 years I've had my 3GS I have had a issue with wifi and my Belkin n+. I replaced the router 2 times with same model and had a few iPhone exchanges. I don't see this as a router issue entirely because no other device besides iPhones have a problem.
After 20 minutes or so using wifi or it just being connected and me not locking the screen, it suddenly stops responding. Wifi signal still there, settings says it's connected. Different sys apps tell me my local ip but can't determine external during this time. I used inet to ping the router when it's in this state, no response.
The only way to fix it is to toggle wifi off then back on.
I think I found a solution for the people having this issue, I hope one of these days apple actually fixes the bug. I believe it's related to wpa2 and aes.
SSID no spaces A-z characters
Mac address filtering is useless and provides no security
Wpa2 with aes causes the problem. I even shortened my passcode to 12345678, still had problem.
Setting ip, subnet, dns settings manually instead of dhcp did not solve problem.
Resetting settings On both router and iPhone did not work.
Router is latest firmware and again no issues with anything besides iOS products.
Wifi is set to b/g only. 20mhz band only, router gives option of 20/40 mode even if n is off.
iOs devices are not compatible with 40mhz, make sure this is off.
I determined it's not a dns issue by trying ip's including my local router ip. It failed to connect even though the iPhone says it's connected.
What is working so far, I changed my security to WPA and TKIP and so far it hasn't happened, but I'll will keep on testing and won't turn off my screen or disconnect from wifi. So far using wifi 2 hours straight no issue.
This issue has been in every update from 3.0 to 4.3. It seems from searching there are incompatibilities with routers and certain security settings. My professional guess as a programmer is there is a bug in the iOS wifi firmware or driver when negotiating and reauthenticating under certain situations, that is why it happens like clock work.
I also noticed this issue does not affect the 3G because it uses a different chip. I'm not sure if the iPad uses the same chip as the 3GS and I am pretty sure the iPhone 4 uses a different chip.
So if you reply please post your device model, router model and wifi settings and see of we can help ourselves and apple find a fix for this issue, because if it's not fixed by June, I doubt I will get a iPhone 5
Message was edited by: sevenalive

So far so good, I have had it connected since my last post and did not recent the wifi, go out of range, or turn off my screen (when turning off the screen, wifi usually turns off to save power). So far everytime I checked, it loaded pages right up.
Thanks for letting me know of the firmware update, it was last updated over a year ago and I last checked in Jan, I thought they were done with updates. Looks like it is finally fixed, if anything changes I will post back.

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Thanks for your post. That said, I'm not sure how you got the impression that I wish to go to Maine I'm happy here in Perth, Western Australia.
Jeff Kelleher wrote:
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