iPhone dropping my home wifi connection
I am having a terrible issue with my iPhone randomly dropping my home wifi connection. When I try to reconnect, it will ask for my password. Sometimes it takes the password, other times it does not. Other times it will say it is unable to connect to my wifi. All my other devices are connected to the wifi okay...printer, laptop, etc. Only my iPhone is having this problem. I have read that this is a know issue with iPhones. I have tried forgetting the network and reconnecting, I have tried resetting network settings on my iPhone. Turning off and turning back on. Nothing has worked. This is immensely frustrating. It has caused me to eat up my usage because it isn't on my wifi
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
By any chance is your router using the same SSID for both the 2.4ghz band and the 5ghz band?
I had this issue on a one band router (so one SSID) and my solution above solved it.
I have seen this symptom on two-band routers as well. If both bands are set to the same SSID, the iPhone periodically switches back and forth hunting for the best connection, so disconnections happen randomly.
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No, my 2.4GHz Network Name (SSID) is set to "<LastName>Home" and the 5GHz Network Name (SSID) is set to "<LastName>Home5G". It does make sense that my iPhone is periodically trying to switch to the 5GHz network because it happens most often when I am in my master bedroom area where my wireless network is setup in a closet area. I have access points in other areas of the house and most often I do not experience drops in other areas of the house, but it does drop in the master bedroom area when it should be connecting to the 5GHz. Since the SSID's are different are they different enough? Or, is there another possibility?
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Thanks for the help. It was bad hardware.
Thank you for the update and I was happy to assist.
So go to Settings, Wireless, forget the connection, exit out, shut the phone OFF (Power down), start up and make a new Wireless connection. Set it for static, give it an IP on the static range of your router (likely low in the range), give it a subnet mask (255.255.255.255) and the router gateway IP. It should select DNS but know what the DNS is in your router.
Set it up a said, and test it.
You may have an incompatibility with your router but not likely.