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Help Wi-fi Issue

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Girevik

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Sorry for the double post. I put this in the general Captivate forum before I noticed the troubleshooting one.

I had my phone connected to my home wi-fi network and working perfectly yesterday. Today I am still able to update my feeds page, but if I try to use the browser I get a "page not found" error, and if I go into the market I'm getting a "network error" message.

My network is showing up as connected in my wi-fi settings screen, and I'm still able to connect and do everything on my iPod so I don't think it's an issue with my network.

Can anyone give me a hint as to what might be happening?
 
If you go to menu>settings>Wireless and Network>Wi-Fi settings and you tap on your home network under Wi-Fi networks, does it display a valid IP address for your subnet?
 
It's seems to (but I'm not an expert in this area). The ip adress is give me there is xxx.xxx.1.148, and when I do an "ipconfig", my default gateway is xxx.xxx.1.1. I'm assuming that means it's got the IP correct, but as I say I'm not totally sure.
 
I'm having the same problem. Two new captivate phones in our house. Will connect to the wifi network, and get a valid IP address.

They are pulling no data from our wifi. Every other device (including the laptop I'm using now) are working fine.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
bak4373 said:
Just solved my own problem. Turned the phones off and then back on, and now all is working fine!
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Unfortunately this fix has only proven temporary for me. Every couple days at least, wifi will just stop working with the exact same symptoms as you describe. I have to restart my phone every couple days just so I can use wifi again.
 
That stinks. I've only had the issue one other time, and that was at my parents' when they were having wi-fi issues. I restarted thier router and before my phone would pick it up and I had to restart it. Could you be having intermitent wi-fi issues that could be causing the problem?
 
I'm having the same issues with my home WiFi. However, I've noticed that it occurs only when I connect the phone to my PC via the USB cable. Once I disconnect it, the phone can not access data through the WiFi even though it still shows it is connected. Any idea what may be causing this?
 
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