Hello, just got this, its the TF101
I am trying to get internet from my router in the house to this tablet, have the correct password etc (my laptop has no issues connecting) and it just keeps trying to "obtain ip address"
I have a s3 phone that I tried using as a hotspot to get internet to the tablet and that worked, is there something else I can try and get onto my home internet?
Please try and help! Thanks everyone.
The problem is probably your router. I'm guessing it's a problem with the way the router is handling the DHCP lease. Try setting up the Transformer with a static IP address and see if it gets connected to your wireless. If that works then I suggest getting a better router.
I had a similar issue with an old linksys router. Once I checked out the router everything works fine.
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Or just reset the router / update the firmware if the static IP works. Just make sure you check for the available static IP range in your router's config otherwise it may not work if you're assigning an IP from the DHCP range.
Do you use MAC-address filtering?
Switch it off in the router or just add the Mac-address of your TF101.
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alright so my asus transformer has issues with my wifi at my gfs house. i have perfect access to it at my house. but when i go there i can not conncect. before i bought the transformer i had the xoom, which was able to connect. any ideas what would fix this?
thanks
so you can see the network in wifi, but what happens when you try to connect?
Do you have the correct password? Check on another machine to make sure.
A couple of things come to mind...
1, Are you excluded using MAC address filtering?
2, Is the router using a 54g signal?
3, Have you installed WIFIAnalyzer from the app store to see if there is a signal / conflict / less congested channel for the router.
Hey guys/gals, I have a problem with setting up the wifi on the tab 7.0 plus.
It sees my SSID - I enter in the password, it says obtaining IP - but is stays there never actually giving me an IP from my router. I get signal strength, etc. but I cant access the net.
So i decided to try to set a static IP, but that did not work either (but not sure I did this entirely correctly, so ...)
Any solutions? Whats the problem? it can be that hard....
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Hey guys/gals, I have a problem with setting up the wifi on the tab 7.0 plus.
It sees my SSID - I enter in the password, it says obtaining IP - but is stays there never actually giving me an IP from my router.
Any solutions? Whats the problem? it can be that hard....
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The likely problem is that DHCP isn't running on your network (or isn't working.) DHCP is something that usually will run on your router and assigns IP numbers to devices that connect to it. It's also possible that DHCP is working fine, but you have MAC Address filtering enabled on your router (which basically limits which devices can attach to your network.)
Finally, it might simply be a router incompatibility (though I haven't seen that very often.)
As to how to resolve those things... I can't answer that... I don't have the same router you do (unless you just so happen to have a linksys E4200), so can't walk you through reconfiguring it.
Good luck
Gary
Had the same problem at the beginning when I unboxed my Tab for several times. After few resettings my router an Tab it finally started to work and since that moment couple of days without any issue. So don't know where was the problem..:-(
I also had DHCP issues upon unboxing the tablet. When it first powered up and tried to connect to my D-Link router, my Wi-Fi would go offline. All of my other connected devices would also go offline. After pondering this bizarre behavior for a few moments I decided to turn off the tablets wifi. The router and other devices magically came back online and connected.
After repeating this several times just to make sure I wasn't seeing things I assigned a static IP to the tablet. Everything worked fine after that.
What I think was happening there was that the tablet was trying to grab the router's IP address and that was knocking everything offline. This is just a guess though. Maybe someone with more network saavy than me has some thoughts?
thanks i will try these tonite and reply back.
My Tab is rooted, but I dont believe that matters, correct?
Yes it shouldn't matters...
So i played around, couldnt get DCHP to work for an IP. So i went back to creating a static IP - i missed 1 digit on DNS1 the first time which is why it didnt work last night. Once the static ip was up - boom.....magic. I called samsung support, they indicated that this is a know issue with some home routers (mine is a 2wire) and that a static IP is the solution.
thanks for all the tips above, much appreciated.
I have a Netgear WNDR4000 router. I am using WPA2 security, static internal IP addresses and a MAC table to control access to my home network. I have added multiple devices to my home network since I bought the router without any issues including an Android smartphone running gingerbread.
No matter what I do I cannot get my 300 to connect to the network. It does see the network SSID but it will not connect. I even tried the WPS button on the front of the router using the advanced settings on the 300 but still no luck.
I am beginning to think that the MAC address listed under the “About Device" menu item is not what the 300’s radio is actually broadcasting.
I have double- and triple-checked all the settings but I am getting nowhere.
Any help or suggestions you may have would be appreciated.
Does your smartphone support tethering? Connect the 300 to it to verify MAC address. You could TEMPORARILY reconfig your router to be open (no security) and confirm MAC address. Turn off MAC filtering to see if that is it. Get it to connect to something wide opeb and then begin layering on the security.
You have set up your static settings on the 300, correct? Sounds like you have DHCP disabled on the router...
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Thank you for your response.
I did finally decide to take all the security of the router and the 300 connected right away. Then I checked the router's "attached devices" list and it did verify the MAC address that the 300 was displaying. So I was able to clear that as an issue.
I still could not get it to connect with my WPA2 security turned on (my router needs that level of security to put out "N" speeds) on the 2g network.
Right; I have DHCP disabled on the router. All my devices, wired and wireless, get an assigned internal IP address and their MAC addresses are loaded into a table.
Every other device I've added to the router connects without a problem.
I decided to send the 300 back and I'll just wait for the Infinity to hit the market.
Thanks again for your help.
Hope your next one works as it should. Mine connects fine using WPA or WPA2, multiple manufacturers. Still waiting for OTA, rooted running .17 firmware.
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Thank you for your response.
I did finally decide to take all the security of the router and the 300 connected right away. Then I checked the router's "attached devices" list and it did verify the MAC address that the 300 was displaying. So I was able to clear that as an issue.
I still could not get it to connect with my WPA2 security turned on (my router needs that level of security to put out "N" speeds) on the 2g network.
Right; I have DHCP disabled on the router. All my devices, wired and wireless, get an assigned internal IP address and their MAC addresses are loaded into a table.
Every other device I've added to the router connects without a problem.
I decided to send the 300 back and I'll just wait for the Infinity to hit the market.
Thanks again for your help.
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Wtf... Send it back.... Wow!
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Hello,
I have been experiencing this problem for a couple of days now, and it's driving me crazy. I tried all i could find on the internet (resetting the phone, the router, wiping cache, using static ips, deleting files in \data\misc\wifi\dhcp...), but when i try to connect to my wlan all is stuck in this "obtaining ip address" loop. The weird thing is that this never happened before, and involves all android phones at my house now, but not my windows 7 pc. Im on the latest vipersaga rom, and we have other phones, running jb. What could i do? is anyone experiencing this?
Thanks for helping
Quick and easy fix is to assign your devices static IP addresses on your router.
Is the router running WEP encryption? If so change it to WPA2.
SimonTS said:
Quick and easy fix is to assign your devices static IP addresses on your router.
Is the router running WEP encryption? If so change it to WPA2.
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thanks, i solved it easily assignin the ip directly on the phone, i had had problems doing that just on my router. I had already WPA2 anyway
So I tried to connect my shield to my lg g2 (my hotspot) to download a podcast for the ride home (currently at work). The wifi icon in the status bar has the exclamation mark in it, but tells me the signal strength is excellent.
I'm wondering if this has anything to do with me not having a tethering plan as I've always been able to do this pre lollipop with other devices. Any ideas? Has anyone else experienced this yet?
Thanks
I notice a similar "issue", but actually going into the WiFi settings it works just fine
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Hmmm. I couldn't find anything there that would help. I'll try again today before I get the tinfoil hat out.
Yes if you go in and pray pray, things will work
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exclamation by wifi signal on lollipop
You have to modify the connection setting on your phone to a static IP for that router. I know it's goofy. Go to modify connection on your phone for that router and set static IP. IP address you want, the gateway IP address for your router and DNS1 DNS2 which u should be able to find all this info if you log onto your router.