iPod Touch fails to connect to Airport Extreme 802.11n
January 31, 2008 2:07 pmTips, Troubleshooting, how-to, iPod Touch
Over the holidays, I received an iPod Touch as a gift, and let me tell you, that little sucker is extremely useful as an internet device. Keeping tabs on my sites where I could find Wifi is great.
However, a couple of days ago, it stopped being able to access the internet through my home wireless network. My wireless network is created by an Apple Airport Extreme
First I thought that the Touch had a problem. I reset it few times to no avail. And then I discovered that I could connect to an open Wifi point in the neighbourhood; which made things really frustrating. The Airport Extreme had been, up to that point, the best Wifi system I’ve tested.
A couple of days worth of search on Google netted no solution whatsoever.
Out of desperation, I started messing with the Airport’s settings. Lo and behold, changing the Wifi channel from automatic to ‘Channel 9′ fixed the problem.
Update: As it turned out, the airport needed restarting the hard way. After multiple instance of losing contact with the Touch, I unplugged it for 5 minutes and after plugging it back in, I haven’t experienced any problems with the Touch going on the net.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I had a much more basic problem–I wasn’t able to connect my iPod Touch to my Airport Extreme, and the iPod didn’t even recognize the network (i.e. no SSID displayed). I checked everything, powered down, powered up, and then noticed that the AirPort was set to 802.11n-only mode. I changed it to 802.11n (b/g compatible) setting, and everything worked fine. I know, elementary, but it hadn’t dawned on me that this could have been the issue.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Mischa,
Thanks for that tip – I had the same problem and your hint did the trick.
Guy
August 18th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Thanks all, this site really help me out on how to get my touch to work with my airport extreme . I’ve had it about 7 months now and finally was able to figure it out. You think apple would have had this on there support page but I couldn’t find it.