help cant get bluetooth or wifi to work - Page 3

boz · 20-05-2008, 09:44 PM

The fault does seem to lie in the router not giving out a strong enough signal to me, I will wait on other responses and see what they think.

davey · 20-05-2008, 09:53 PM

i am on my laptop and it is connected by wifi to router with no problem.

when i check connection for my wifi on phone signal strength is at max (4 bars)
do i need to enter full web address ie http://blah blah.co.uk or just blah blah

boz · 20-05-2008, 10:18 PM

I just put o2uk.co.uk into mine no need to worry about the rest.

davey · 20-05-2008, 10:24 PM

will try a few sites tomorrow night and see what happens.

cheers

boz · 20-05-2008, 10:33 PM

No worries, check back because someone else might be abe to shed some light on it, hopefully!

neilm · 21-05-2008, 07:14 AM

Just a couple of points to mention here

1) We usually say first with any of these WiFi problems to check the WLAN Power setting. By default it is turned low, but most PDA's I've had won't sustain a connection at that level.

Open Start/Settings/connections/WLAN and hit the Power tab. Make sure the slider is fully Left for Max Performance. Now turn WiFi off/on and see if it makes a difference.

2) The O2 shortcut in Favourites won't connect over WiFi because it is set to use a WAP connection (the old O2 Active APN) starting with wsp:// rather than http:// . WAP will always connect via GPRS because the O2 WAP server is not visible on a normal web connction.

davey · 21-05-2008, 07:43 PM

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Re: help cant get bluetooth or wifi to work
Just a couple of points to mention here

1) We usually say first with any of these WiFi problems to check the WLAN Power setting. By default it is turned low, but most PDA's I've had won't sustain a connection at that level.

Open Start/Settings/connections/WLAN and hit the Power tab. Make sure the slider is fully Left for Max Performance. Now turn WiFi off/on and see if it makes a difference.

Have done that

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2) The O2 shortcut in Favourites won't connect over WiFi because it is set to use a WAP connection (the old O2 Active APN) starting with wsp:// rather than http:// . WAP will always connect via GPRS because the O2 WAP server is not visible on a normal web connction.

That explains that problem then

What i have noticed is that if enter yahoo it uses gprs

and if i enter yahoo.co.uk then it will connect via my wifi connection,

I dont know if this is the way it is supposed to work and i am being thick or if there is a setting i can change so that it will use wifi as a first choice when ever it is avaliable?

thanks for everybodys help so far though