iPhone Wi-Fi Tips You’ll Wish You Read
Here are the problems and questions I had connecting my iPhone to my WEP encrypted Wi-Fi network.
How do you know if the iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network? (Wi-Fi Status)
At the top left corner of the screen there will be an E when you are connected to the Edge network, and a little fan looking symbol when you are connected via Wi-Fi.
What is this message: “you must connect to a Wi-Fi network to access the iTunes store”?
For me I really wasn’t connected via Wi-Fi when I got this. See above question.
I’m connected via Wi-Fi but no pages will load.
For me I had put in the wrong password. The iPhone doesn’t tell you and pretends it’s connected even with a bad password.
How do I enter the password for a WEP Wi-Fi network?
Very carefully! Use the hex version of your WiFi password and use lowercase for the letters. Keep trying if it’s not connecting. I was positive I had entered correctly, but I guess it’s easy to mess up a key and not realize it on that little keyboard, so I started over many times. Finally on the fifth try it worked.
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