What the hell is wrong with Lumia Phones and Wifi?

[Luminator55]

This is really frustrating. Everytime, I buy a new Lumia phone or try to connect a lumia phone to a router (5 different routers). **** happens. "The wifi network didn't respond." Every other devices connects to the router except a lumia device. (730, 830, 930).

There are like thousands of questions and still microsoft hasn't fixed this.

I tried:

enabling/disabling static ip on phone.
resetting the modem.
using a new modem.
Trying other lumia phones.
changing security modes on modem.
protected to open.
rebooting/factory resetting (hard reset) the phones several times.

None works. One night it connects, the other night it wont. This is definitely a software bug where something happens during the handshake.

If any smart people have recognized this give me a solution other than the usual 'turn off' 'reboot' 'replace' answers.

 

[odero.pius]

Windows phone has one of the fastest wifi connection unless of course you get second grade type. Check if data connection is on and turn both wifi and data off before turning on wifi. If this fails then update wireless app, access point, network then reboot. Hope this helps


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[odero.pius]

You can also configure the wifi sense app.


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[Mike Waechter]

You need to provide details... You probably have mac filtering on or something stupid.

 

[gwinegarden]

I've never had a single problem.

 

[PepperdotNet]

I've noticed sometimes on my way driving home from work, my phone thinks it is still connected to the wifi at the office. A quick trip to airplane mode and back fixes it.

 

[Sportymsk]

I'm experiencing this problem occasionally after a critical update.. the update itself consumed only 1 MB and i haven't got any change-log or details about that from any source

 

[Nokia5110]

Long ssid with a - somewhere cannot be connected to Windows phone; my experience. Throw in a password that is not a number and you have ...

 

[jsooney]

One possibility I heard of is that the DHCP timeout on the phone is too short. I don't know if that's true, or how to correct it, so I guess this is a useless post.