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Last night I left my iPhone on my bed stand, and noticed a lot less GSM buzz from the clock radio than usual. When I checked in the morning, I found that I had left wifi turned off. Less GSM buzz means that the phone radio may have turned down its transmit power. It would do this if it thought that it had better cell reception, and thus needed less power to contact the nearest cell tower.

So has any else noticed whether turning wifi on causes worse reception or more dropped calls?

There must be a lot of little antennas crowded together inside an iPhone (4 bands of GSM, 3G, wifi, Bluetooth, & GPS) that could potentially be interfering with one another.

Or maybe AT&T stuck a new cell tower in my neighborhood that's not on any of the maps?

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THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I connected to my WiFi Network fine before 2.2 was Jailbroken, but as soon as I did the Jailbreak, I got Mobile Substrate Safe Mode 11 times and my WiFi is constantly dropping out.

I need Open SSH (for SOME reason, it installs Open SSL as well in Cydia) to upload stuff and test my new themes.

Could somebody please help me with instructions on how to MANUALLY install?

Thankyou, and is anyone else have probs with WiFi on JB 2.2?

This is a big problem. I can't even try uninstalling it because my Cydia is inside a categories folder, which is now gone. I can't turn on wifi to ssh in, because my Settings is in the same folder.

Any ideas?

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I bought a MacPro 2.66 from Apple as a refurb. months ago. I had the local Apple Store Genius install a Wifi card and all was well about two weeks ago. Now my Internet speeds crawl and then bounce back up. I've cut out of the chain Netgear router and switch.

I replaced an Apple Extreme.

I've had Mediacom out three times.

I've been on Apple Care support staff by phone.

I've checked the speed a Mac directly connected to the Apple Extreme via Ethernet, and with a MacBook Pro. Good speeds there.

Today I dragged the MacPro to the local Genius Bar and they pulled it and reseated it, and made sure all the antenna wires were tight. In the Apple Store the speeds to two WWW Internet speed sites screamed.

Back home I got initial joy and then I'm back down in the dumper again with speed. There must be some environmental thing going on here. Yes I do have a wireless 5.8 mhz phone. But I've dropped the Extreme to the lower mhz. One of my neighbors has a Wifi network going, but that has been up for many months.

Time to drill a hole in the floor I guess and drop an Ethernet cable into it. Any last minute ideas before I put up the construction tape;)

Ok so my friend just dropped his Iphone-2g off and i dont know anything about it. I guess his mom got it from some chinese people in china town and they say its jailbroken but needs to be unlocked....ive successfully jailbroken my iphone 3g so i know a little bit about what im doing. Anyways so It appears to be jailbroken with FW-1.1.1 but its not unlocked. So i looked up a few vids on youtube on how to unlock a jailbroken 1.1.1 iphone. But it requires me to access " isntaller" but for some reason i Cant connect to WIFI. Its just greyed out and says " no Wi-Fi" . So my question is whats wrong with this phone? and how should i go about unlocking this 1.1.1 iphone-2g?


Thanks a bunch !

dont know how or why but i have just finished upgrading my 2g to 2.2 and the wifi signal is amazing...i found aboud 6 wifi network from my room which i didnt even know about...

and they realy fixed the mail issues....now ive set my mail(otehr in the list) as my defult mail account and i dont need to to get in through saffari

anyways just wanted u guys to know...the upgrade was really worth it!!!

I can't believe I bought this, I should've gone for the iphone 3G. My friend fooled me into thinking the ipod touch is like the iphone, but it isn't. It just has the same interface. I you want to download apps off of it, you need wifi. If you want to surf the web, you need wifi. If you want to watch youtube, you need wifi. You need wifi for EVERYTHING

And it's rather annoying because I travel outside of my house quite a bit. During those times, there is little or NO wifi available. When there is wifi, there is always a security key encryped into the wireless, and I can't access it. The only thing that i can do is probably listen to music (like any other ipod) and play a couple games. In that case I might as well have just gotten an ipod nano, or the ipod classic.

If I had the iPhone, I would be able to download apps, surf the web, download music, text people, call people, take pictures, and IM people! Well, without wifi on the ipod touch, guess what? You just left out ALL these features.

I also do not like the design of the ipod touch. In my opinion, it is WAY too thin, and the stainless steel is a bit annoying. When you hold it for a long time, the steel turns the ipod into a giant grease ball. I had to buy an extra grip that cost $30 just to solve this problem. By the way the grip is annoying too. When I put it in my pocket, it is extremely hard to take out, and when I take it out, it's got all this dust and lent stuck on it, and I have to rub it all off, which takes about 5 minutes, everytime I take it out of my pocket!!

Now that I wasted $230, I have no money to save up for the iPhone. I am getting probably $200 for christmas, but that is not enough. I have Sprint, I have a WHOLE year and a half left to go before my contract ends, and my parents aren't willing to cancel and get me the iphone. I have no job, I am 15. What should I do? I am stuck with this lent/grease attracting device that has almost no key features, and is just like any other iPod. Exept it's touch screen, and it's more expensive.

Not trying to start a war, I just feel like I had to type all my feelings out, alright? :p

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So I took a little a break from working on gdgt to get on Virgin America's inaugural Aircell GoGo WiFi party flight, posting this at altitude. If you haven't already caught one of the early Aircell flights on Delta, American, or Air Canada, their now-active GoGo service provides in-flight internet. So far, as far as party planes go, this one hasn't been to raucus -- probably because everyone's been geeking out on their laptops.
Quick facts:

• The service is a shared high-power EV-DO Rev. A connection, at 3.6Mbps downstream and 1.8Mbps upstream.
• By April, 100% of Virgin America's flights will have GoGo service. Dayumn!
• So far I've been getting about 1Mbps down, and 200Kbps up -- pretty good considering that this is about as pinned as the system is going to get. There are only about 150 people on it right now, you know?
• Latency is between 200-500ms, sometimes higher. Reasonable latency, though.
  
• The system uses 802.11a/b/g, although it's an open AP (i.e. no encryption).
• Aircell intends to block voice and video chat to keep things less obnoxious for travelers. It's working in flight though -- people are doing iChat sessions. But part of this inaugural flight will have live YouTube streaming, so one should expect to have this cut off later.
• BitTorrent works! It's not crazy fast, but I'm peering with about 8 nodes. I wouldn't expect this to work when the service launches.
  
• GoGo has a built-in traffic shaper that keeps an eye out for those using more traffic than others. If you're consuming too much, it'll scale you back (although no one has a hard cap). If you're the only one on GoGo (say, on a red-eye at 4am) then you can go crazy, you won't be scaled back. Still, I'm sitting next to my old pal Brian Lam from Giz, and I'd wager the two of us are somehow taking up about 80% of the plane's bandwidth.
  
• Virgin America isn't filtering content, so feel free to cast a glance over your shoulder and engage your browser's private mode.

Any thing else you want to know?

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Is it possible to have my gmail account sync to my ipod touch over wifi or do i need to pay for mobile me? my gmail already works with the mail app on my mac.

Hi im wondering is it possible to install NESapp-2.3.1 without wifi,i have used iPhone Suite and put NES.app in applications, changed permissions to 777.
Also have put roms var/mobile/media/ROMs/NES

Wi fi does not work on my touch in any way so i can't use Cydia, please anyhelp would be appreciated as i have been trying for hours and still can't do it :(

The Mushroom icon is on my ipod but when i click it i get a white screen for about 2 seconds then it just goes back to the main screen

Ohlala mais j’ai pas blogué depuis QUATRE jours. J’espère que vous êtes encore vivants : pour ma part, mon corps éloigné d’ondes wifi s’est desséché tel un vagin post-nettoyage à la javel (j’ai été obligée de surcompenser sur l’alcool, pas le choix).

J’ai donc passé ces derniers jours à dédicacer les BD me faire demander si je couchais avec Arthur, ce qui m’a poussée à une observation intéressante : peu importe l’individu de sexe masculin avec qui je me trouve, il semble que je me comporte toujours comme si on sortait du lit.

“Mais sinon vous baisez ?”

“On se reconnaît vachement dans votre couple.”

“C’est inspiré de votre vie ensemble, la BD ?”

Lol. D’autant que je n’ai rencontré physiquement Arthur qu’après lui avoir envoyé la moitié des scénarios. En même temps, pour la Revanche du Clitoris, on me demandait si j’étais mariée avec Damien Mascret (qui a une charmante épouse et deux petites filles).

Après les signatures, petit passage à la rédaction de Playboy : je me retrouve à papoter du sens de la vie avec le patron, que je connais depuis, euh, cinq ans. Et ça n’a pas loupé : “Mais vous avez l’air vachement intimes, vous avez eu une aventure ensemble ?”

Evidemment, je ne démens rien. Je me contente de trouver curieuse l’équation : femme + homme + complicité + relation pro = ils couchent ensemble / ont couché ensemble / vont coucher ensemble. En même temps je ne compte pas changer de comportement. Les distances inutiles, ça n’a jamais été mon fort.

Et pour conclure cette note un peu perso, une autre remarque : j’imagine que le patron de Playboy, pour pas mal de tradis bien-pensants, c’est le Mal incarné. Je souhaite aux donneurs de leçons flippés de la vie sexuelle, qui confondent pudibonderie et éthique, d’arriver un jour à sa cheville en terme de bonté et de morale. Les personnes que je croise et qui travaillent dans le milieu du sexe sont, presque toujours, d’une délicatesse parfaite. Je renvoie ceux qui les jugent à leur propre obscénité, vachement plus réelle et dangereuse.

I'm actually predicting a few of these suggestions to come true, since they're realistic:

1. The ability to view the Percentage/Time Left of the Battery.
2. The ability to Toggle WiFi on the Status Bar
3. Landscape View for Mail & Notes.
4. Improved YouTube App, consisting of the ability to view and send comments.
5. Lyric & Album Art finder via the iTunes WiFi Store.
6. The ability to add one more icon to the dock.
7. Move Location of Genius Icon to the left of the Album Icon, or right of the Back Arrow Icon (While listening to a song)

Hello,
I installed iatkos v.0i on my toshiba satellite a105-s4004,but airport doesn't recognize my wifi card ,and the usb doesn't work
I don't know who can i do for install windows again on my computer...please help me!!!

I downloaded a podcast off of the wifi Itunes store and was wondering if the downloaded podcasts are supposed to sync to the itunes library on my PC. As of now they don't. I this supposed to happen.

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