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On 2007-08-16 17:45:09, Nipsen wrote:
Ok. I've been experimenting a bit, and it seems that:
1. WEP and WPA works fine.
2. The phone struggles with short preamble set on the access point (but that might've been because of noise on my location).
3. Wpa2 is right out. Noticeable drop in signal strength, connection fails for unknown reason (other than drop in signal strength).
4. The automatic DNS- assignment apparently doesn't work as you'd expect on any other computer, and might need to be set manually. (At least on the setups I've tried so far). I.e, the phone produces the "cannot find external..." message, even when you're connected. If anyone were to come up with an educated guess at why this is (or if it maybe isn't a problem when you're on an unsecured network), I'd be grateful.
5. Signal reception and connection recovery is terrific
when the rest works.
Agree totally with 5..signal reception is terrific..shame the wifi is so picky though...
I've tried setting tha acount settings manually to no avail...sigh, this is a major PITA.
Hopefully I can try it out at my friends connection to see if it works there.
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Posted: 2007-08-16 18:46:56
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I had a ton of bother setting mine up but it has performed flawlessly ever since and never drops a connection, unlike my old Nokia N80.
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Posted: 2007-08-16 19:14:38
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To the guys who'se connections work: what router do you guys have?
I'm using a WG602 access point and it works great. I've had no problems using this access point with the P1i and I've had no problems with it connecting using WPA2 encryption..
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Posted: 2007-08-16 19:31:31
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On 2007-08-16 18:46:56, DagMX wrote:
Agree totally with 5..signal reception is terrific..
The power- saving and so on works, too. Logs back on and no apparent problems.
shame the wifi is so picky though...
I've tried setting tha acount settings manually to no avail...sigh, this is a major PITA.
And, of course the error- messages read: "Error. Error.... There's still an error, you know. Have no idea what it is, though. Error."..
If you can log on to your access- point and write down some of the settings, that would be great.
edit: er.. there's something going on here. I can't have power- saving and strong encryption. But I can have power- saving and encryption if I assign the ip- adress of the phone on the router permanently. ..Am I on to something this time?
[ This Message was edited by: Nipsen on 2007-08-16 19:52 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-16 19:49:44
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the Access point settings are pretty basic:
WEP
Europe broadcast mode
B+G hybrid mode
Act as only an access point
All the regular IP and gateway settings are normal and haven't been changed from default.
When my p1i is connected, it shows up in the active clients of my access point and the number of shared clients on the p1i are accurate as well.
Methinks the router and P1 are interfacing correctly, but the router isn't sending data as such which is weird. My brothers PSP can access the web fine. Laptops work fine and so does another PC. The Wii has no problems(but often has dropped signals durin long trasfers such as updates).
The only other device that is having similiar problems is my brothers DS. It will connect in the setup/test mode. No problems there, but the router will not send any data to or from it. I always thought it was just a problem with the DS, but I guess my router has problems with portable wireless devices?
I'm not sure how portability would make a difference though? Maybe due to their lower powered WLAN radios?
EDIT: This is weird. I set the preamble mode to short and power-saving on the phone to off and its working perfectly fine now...I'll test it out for a while and report back. Thanks guys.
EDIT: Tried disconecting and reconecting to the wifi. Same old problem
[ This Message was edited by: DagMX on 2007-08-17 04:59 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-17 05:36:55
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It seems I'm having the same thing as you here. If I turn off power- saving on the phone, I can connect without much problem. That doesn't really change much even if I have several other units on the access- point. Or if I change the encryption, change from mixed to b only, short preamble to long, etc. (Except wpa2, that still doesn't work for some reason).
But when I enabled the power- saving feature on the phone, I can connect to the AP, but not receive any data. I've tested a laptop with power- saving, and that works on this AP, though. So best guess - there's something about the implementation of the power- saving feature on the p1 that isn't up to speed. (Maybe, it doesn't mark the unit as active properly, before requesting information? I thought the power- saving was supposed to allow units to switch their status on the network in that way..)
ahem.. - and the phone logs off the access- point according to the timeout for "dial-up" (or something similar) setting under "internet- accounts". Not "power- saving mode"...
[ This Message was edited by: Nipsen on 2007-08-17 17:40 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-17 18:26:25
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yeah, it could possibly be the power saving on a software level. I remember sony had a similiar problem on the PSP where the PSP would connect but would behave the same way. A firmware upgrade pretty much rectified that for me.
I'm hoping a future firmware upgrade will fix wifi issues on the p1i if I can't get my router and p1 working properly.
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Posted: 2007-08-17 18:53:46
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Mm. Anyone know where you can file requests for.. ah.. "Request for improved implementation of crucial feature I damn well expected would work. But which seems to have been accidentally not listed as a function in the whitepaper, even though it is included in the 802.11b standard (which it is mentioned that the p1 is compliant with in the whitepaper , hence the confusion).", with SE?
Dogmann? Anyone?
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Posted: 2007-08-17 19:24:51
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went to a hotel today and the wifi worked wonderfully...
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Posted: 2007-08-19 13:06:13
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Hi guys,
I am gonna start pulling my hair out soon if I dont at least just get told I can not do this. I am hoping I can however as the crappy n95 I just swapped for my new SE P1i could. What I am trying to do it set up my P1i so that I can browse the phones files etc from my desktop and vice-versa from phone to desktop via wifi, in prety much the same way as I can now using my PDA. Is there any way that this device can be added as a network shared device? Also is there any chance there is a way to stream music from a network PC to the phone. I cant believe that something this usefull would be missed off when all wireless PDA's are capable of this easily.
Thanks for all your time.
Dan
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Posted: 2007-08-19 18:43:04
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