WIFI issues with disabled SSID broadcast?

[shookyang]

Has anyone come up with any problems with the G1 connecting to your home WIFI that has disabled SSID broadcast?

I was unable to get it to find my home WIFI network, kept saying that the network was out of range.

It had no problems finding my neighbors networks.

I also have MAC address filtering and my router set to WPA/WPA2 encryption.

I've made sure that the MAC address was entered correctly, the WPA/WPA2 key was entered correctly on the G1, and made sure that the SSID was typed correctly.

For some reason, the G1 is unable to detect non-broadcasted SSIDs. That is pretty silly if it cannot. I added my brother-in-law's iPhone to my network a few weeks ago with zero problems.

[rynosaur]

Has anyone come up with any problems with the G1 connecting to your home WIFI that has disabled SSID broadcast?

I was unable to get it to find my home WIFI network, kept saying that the network was out of range.

It had no problems finding my neighbors networks.

I also have MAC address filtering and my router set to WPA/WPA2 encryption.

I've made sure that the MAC address was entered correctly, the WPA/WPA2 key was entered correctly on the G1, and made sure that the SSID was typed correctly.

For some reason, the G1 is unable to detect non-broadcasted SSIDs. That is pretty silly if it cannot. I added my brother-in-law's iPhone to my network a few weeks ago with zero problems.

Yes, yes, yes . . . me too, although I had problems with all of these things:

1) SSID broadcast off
2) WPA2 Personal
3) Linksys "mixed" mode (ie N, G and B) in wideband mode

The answer: SSID on, WEP 128-bit, Linksys mixed BG narrowband mode.

So yes toto, it is still 2002 and our wireless devices are still picky. My Blackberry Curve 8320 was just as picky tho.

Meh.

[shookyang]

Looks like this was overlooked by Google. I'm going to see if I can track down Android tech support and ask them to look into this serious issue.

I'm not going to compromise my layers of security because of their oversight.

[Sangfroid]

I've had problems with this as well, works fine if I enable SSID broadcast, but if I disable SSID I need to turn wireless off on the G1 and turn it back on to find the network.

Also there doesn't ssem to be support for WPA Enterpise, hopefully an update will fix this.

[rynosaur]

Looks like this was overlooked by Google. I'm going to see if I can track down Android tech support and ask them to look into this serious issue.

I'm not going to compromise my layers of security because of their oversight.

I hear you, brother! I totally had to disconnect the hard drive that had my illegal porn and plans to nuclear weapons until the G1's wireless capabilities get better!

[stopcrazypp]

Has anyone come up with any problems with the G1 connecting to your home WIFI that has disabled SSID broadcast?

I was unable to get it to find my home WIFI network, kept saying that the network was out of range.

It had no problems finding my neighbors networks.

I also have MAC address filtering and my router set to WPA/WPA2 encryption.

I've made sure that the MAC address was entered correctly, the WPA/WPA2 key was entered correctly on the G1, and made sure that the SSID was typed correctly.

For some reason, the G1 is unable to detect non-broadcasted SSIDs. That is pretty silly if it cannot. I added my brother-in-law's iPhone to my network a few weeks ago with zero problems.

I have been hearing people having trouble with wpa/wpa2 on the G1 even without the issue about ssid. Seems the solution was to chose a shorter password, just so you can keep it on wpa but with broadcast for now:
http://forums.tmonews.com/index.php?topic=4001.0

Also an update is coming on the 23rd so it might address this.

Seems like T-mobile checks their own forums more, so reporting it there is probably a good idea:
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=87&thread.id=3142&view=by_date_as cending&page=2

[shookyang]

I have been hearing people having trouble with wpa/wpa2 on the G1 even without the issue about ssid. Seems the solution was to chose a shorter password, just so you can keep it on wpa but with broadcast for now:
http://forums.tmonews.com/index.php?topic=4001.0

Also an update is coming on the 23rd so it might address this.

Seems like T-mobile checks their own forums more, so reporting it there is probably a good idea:
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=87&thread.id=3142&view=by_date_as cending&page=2

But, the issue that I'm having is not quite like that. It's not even detecting my WIFI to try to authenticate the key.

I'm hoping that that it will work after the update.

I will make a post on Tmobile's forums just to make sure they are aware of the issue.

[stopcrazypp]

These guys also posted a way to get it to work with disabled ssid broadcast. See the posts near the end:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1449070

[shookyang]

Was this fixed in the Cupcake update? I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm hoping it was.

[extorian]

All the WiFi points I use broadcast their SSID... but is the problem adding your network? Or connecting to it. You can manually add a network and enter the SSID I noticed many months ago.

If it's already added and it just doesn't connect then I don't know...

For what it's worth, even with my network, half the time it says it failed to connect and I have to manually tell it to retry.