OT: Strong wireless signal on phone won't connect??

[Kevin Fries]

My Comcast router limited to 5 connections.  In the days when all you had
to worry about was computers, that was probably reasonable.  But between
myself, my wife, my father in law, and two teen sons, computers, tablets,
Nook boot readers, etc, we always had someone was always pissed.  The
LinkSys router brought on family harmony... well harmony from technology at
least.  Next tech fight will be in about 6 months when they get the "no
iPhone" rule due to Google Fi limitations, ha ha

Kevin
On Aug 2, 2015 11:09 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> Thanks. Very helpful info.
>
> -------------
> > Many router given with service from phone and cable providers limit the
> > number of active connections.  If the max is hit, and none of the
> > connections have been idle within a certain amount of time, the
> > connecting
> > device will behave exactly like that.  It will appear to connect (because
> > for all intents and purposes it did when it authenticated) but fails to
> > create a session on the router.  So, it drops.  If another device has
> > been
> > idle for longer than the idle timeout, the newly connected device will
> > obtain a session be dropping the idle one... after all, it's not really
> > using it.
> >
> > It appears to the end user like a mystery fix.  A real fix is to not use
> > the crappy freebie router, and go down to Staples and get a Linksys, or
> > Dlink router that does not restrict usage.
> >
> > Kevin
> > On Aug 1, 2015 1:07 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks. Finally did get it to work,
> >> although not sure how or what I did ;)
> >>
> >> -------------
> >> Stephen wrote:
> >> > check the router for errors or mac address blocks?
> >>
> >> -------------
> >> Joe originally asked:
> >> >> Why is wifi failing to connect on one phone when others
> >> >> on my system connect okay?
> >> >>
> >> >> It says the signal is excellent and "Authenticating"
> >> >> with secured WPA/WPA2 PSK a correct password entered
> >> >> but then it says "disconnecting" and "disabled"
> >> >>
> >> >> Can't figure out why or how to fix the problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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