Wi-Fi Low Connectivity - unable to join any network
I have an Ipod touch, which was working beautifully until about 2 days ago. Wi-fi connection was great (3 bars) and there were no problems at all. Almost overnight, my wifi connectivity seems to have disappeared (now 1 bar) and any network that I had previously joined is denying me access, saying unable to join network. These are all networks (around 6 or so) that i had joined and were previously letting me join automatically. Even my home router had disowned my itouch, even though my ibook still works perfectly wirelessly. I've reset all the settings on my pod, and even wiped it once, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference. All the passwords i am entering are correct, as i've watched people using them, yet my ipod is still unable to join any network. Any ideas - i think it could be a signalling issue, as other people ipods seem to have much stronger signals, but it's beginning to seriously **** me off...
I think that you will have no problems connecting your iPods at the Apple store. But it is good idea that you can get them checked out.
Back to your home network. AT&T u-verse routers are somewhat problematic but I did dig up this article on connecting a touch to the router:
http://utalk.att.com/utalk/board/message?board.id=HSIA&message.id=9757
From what I can tell, this router only uses WEP encryption and you would log on via the number on the name plate of the router as your password.
The other thing is that ATT has had serious DNS problems across the country. On your touch you would most likely get a message that the "server was not responding" and on your MacBook, web surfing would just put you to sleep. I have a feeling that is what was going on when you came home and neither iPod would work.
There is a fix for the DNS problem - use OpenDNS.
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You are right, but how could i send it to Apple? when the phone company first replaced my iphone they had in stock alots of iphones and they just sent mine back to Apple and gave me a new one, so all i did is to give them my phone, but now how could i sent it to Apple? and i cant send it by myself, and the store wont do that, its a lost for them.. so sending it to Apple wasnt an option from the begining.
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