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Wifi won't connect to WRT54G using WPA Personal and MAC filtering

My WIFI network is running on a WRT54G router with WPA Personal security set and restricted to only allowing specific MAC addresses. Works fine with all my computers but not HTC Droid Incredible. Connects, disconnects, connects, disconnets, etc but never comes up.

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1ringadingding

I had the same exact issue with my Netgear wireless access point. I finally solved it by disabling WPA security - then the Incredible connected. Then I reset the AP to WPA security, entered the PW on the phone, and have had no trouble connecting under WPA since. Not sure why it worked, but it did. You may also have to disable MAC. Be interested to hear if this works for you.

kschaub

I would disable the MAC filtering and try to connect. Have you connected it at another hotspot?

Maureend

FIXED!!

I was having the same problem. Droid 2 trying to connect to my home Linksys WRT54GS Router with WPA2 Personal with TKIP+AES.

The Droid would keep saying "Obtaining IP address..." but then would disconnect, and actually never fully connected at all.

After doing a bunch of research on this, here's the fix that worked for me:

On the Droid, go to Wireless Settings, then hit Menu > Advanced.
Check "Use Static IP"
I gave it a static IP of 192.168.1.149 (I have my router address at 192.168.1.1 with an allowance of 50 DHCP users, so I put the Droid up there at #49)
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
DNS1: 208.67.222.222
DNS2: 208.67.220.220

These 2 DNS numbers are from opendns.com. Someone on another thread said it worked for them, so I tried it and it worked for me too.

As soon as I tried it, I instantly got the full wireless signal.

I hope this helps someone else!

Maureen

Irishman

Thanks for the static IP fix. I have a AT&T router that was encountering the same problem until I entered the DSN addresses. That has seemed to calm my Droid wifi down for now. Can only see what tomorrow brings because it connected all day long yesterday but not today until I applied your suggestions.

Again, thanks for the info.

prudog9

My connection never stated connected so I may not have experienced your exact issue, but since I may have had a similar problem with the WRT54G and my HTC Incredible I thought I would share my findings. My problem was that I would attempt to connect to the network and the message under the network name read "remembered, secured with WPA/WPA2 PSK" but wouldn't connect and my Wi-Fi continued "Scanning..."

I do use MAC filtering and included my wifi MAC address in the MAC address filter list. I was able to connect after disabling WPA and connecting unsecured so I knew the MAC address wasn't the problem. I noticed that the HTC incredible keypad did not include some of the characters I was using in my password so I decided to change my wireless password on the router. I determined that the '@' symbol was definitely a problem. Other potential problems were |, /, #, $. I was able to connect after altering my password which still includes *, -, and . (period).

Hope this helps someone.

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