iPod Touch fails to connect to Airport Extreme 802.11n

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.