Wifi problem - not connecting

Hi, I bought my ipod touch in december in Canada. Currently I'm living in Holland. I didnt use my ipod in Canada. Since moving here I've tried to connect to my wifi network (2 laptops are connected and working fine) and it says its connected but nothing will open up. Safari say's it "cant open the page because it cant find the server". The same thing for youtube.
I'm not sure if the ipod itself is not working right or if it could be the fact that it was purchased in North America and the settings are different for Europe. If anyone has any idea of what the problem could be please let me know. Thanks

First of all let me say that my ipod touch works great with WEP 64 bit, 128 bit, or WPA but I couldn't get it to work with WPA2 but I don't care. It has also consistently worked at home. However I went to 10 internet cafes over vacation last week and 2/3 of them wouldn't work including 'hard rock cafe'. My suggestion to the waiter to turn off and on the wireless router was not well received.
In all cases the problems were with wifi's that had passwords. the waiter would usually write the passowrd on a napkin. I would enter the password and get the checkmark indicating connection but safari reported 'no server'. Entering the wrong password gave me a connection error and no checkmark by the wifi network.
I also noted that there was an ip address and gateway but the other information (dns, router) were blank. Also the ip address looked wrong as it wasn't a private address. I think it was 162.254.x.x which made no sense to me - usually it's 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x. So I suspect dhcp wasn't working. It was frustrating as there were often people with laptops all around me clearly checking email and watching youtube videos and such. I tried manually setting the router and dns address to x.x.x.1 but no help.
Also when I went back to cafes that worked before they would always work again. It was consistent. When I went to cafes that didn't work the first time they still didn't work. Something is seriously wrong with ipod touch wifi.
Comments on earlier posts - changing the ssid fixed many people's problems. This means the ipod database has some setting associtated with that SSID that is messed up. Too bad clicking 'forget this network' doesn't wipe all entries from the database like it should!
Also another comment on earlier posts - an apostrophe may be part of the issue as this character is used in SQL and it is possible that the ipod uses a SQL database to store wifi connection information.

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iPad: Issues connecting to Wi-Fi networks http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3304
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If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
 Cheers, Tom

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If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
 Cheers, Tom

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