iPod Touch Wi-Fi Grayed Out or No Wi-Fi

Just came along few same questions in my email regarding iPod touch Wi-Fi Grayed out bar or No Wi-Fi (Wireless) at all. Well I do feel your pain, because it happened to mine not too long ago. After 5 minutes of research I found this to be helpful, at least in my situation was

1. Go To Settings
2. Click on Safari
3. Go bit down and click Clear Cache, Clear Cookies, Clear History
4. Hold the Top (sleep/awake) button until you get red bar to swipe it
5. Swipe the red bar to the left (iPod Touch should now turn off)
6. Then Hold the Top (Sleep/Awake) button until you see Apple logo
7. Wait until front screen displays
8. See if that fixed it.

In most cases, this will do the trick. Another suggestion for you I have is to, reset the iPod Touch you can do it many ways, one way is to do it from the Settings and another one is via iTunes.

Hope this helps, do let me know in commenting section below.

How to get (Wi-Fi) Internet on iPod Touch Everywhere

Well I know some of you are mad because iPod Touch does not have 3G network. You can actually get internet on iPod Touch everywhere you go with small gizmo called MiFi. MiFi can be obtained at Verizon or Virgin Mobile, I would prefer Virgin Mobile because they are A LOT cheaper.

How do you get internet on iPod Touch?
Sign up with Virgin Mobile, wait until you get MiFi and all you really have to do is turn it on and viola you are on internet everywhere you go!

Plans are not that expensive:
$10  gets you 100MB and it's valid for 10 days
$40 is unlimited data for 1 month!

MiFi is basically a 3G network that gets converted to Wi-Fi. What I like about MiFi is that you can hook up 5 devices to it and its pretty fast too.

iPod Touch Does Not Remember Wi-Fi Password

Quick iPod Touch on why iPod Touch might not remember your Wi-Fi Password. Basically when you connect first time to your router via iPod Touch, your iPod Touch should remember WiFi password, but sometimes it does not. And that sometimes is when you set it to WPA-2 WPA encryption. For some reason it has problem and mostly I have noticed that with later firmware's than 3.0.

 

To fix it, just go to

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/wpapsk.html

Type in your WPA password, site will give you HEX characters.

Type HEX password in your iPod Touch when asked for your network login, and it should remember the password this time.

20% of Failed iPod Touch Wi-Fi Connection is Because of MAC Address

In one of my post’s I wrote that I will help with Wi-Fi and since 2008 I had over 2500 emails received. 20% of those emails were iPod Touch Wi-Fi failed Connection due to MAC Address. So just to be clear: MAC is not PC it’s Media Access Control which is basically unique (ID) identifier of your device.

PC’s have it, Smart Phone have it, iPod Touch has it too…etc…

WEP Key can be easily hacked for those that want to hack your Wi-Fi network, so router companies added nice feature called MAC Filtering.

When you Enable or turn on MAC Filtering and add only your MAC Address of iPod Touch or PC or Mac …your router basically will only allow THAT device to connect. So when hacker let’s say crack your WEP (Wireless Encryption Key) they still can’t connect because MAC Address of his PC is not allowed to connect.

Which brings me to the point of 20% of iPod Touch Wi-Fi connections failed due to MAC Filtering being enabled yet MAC Address of iPod Touch has not been added.

To obtain MAC address of your iPod Touch go to Settings > General > About (I think), sorry don’t have iPod Touch with me so I am just writing this from feeling where the MAC address is located on iPod Touch.

(I will update this with correct info)

Wi-Fi "Safari cannot connect to internet" Error on iPod Touch

Well you might got iPod Touch for Christmas and get "Safari cannot connect to internet" error due to Wi-Fi connection. As new iPod Touch user there are certain things you can do to solve that problem.

I wrote few posts on this blog about it because I know how furstrating it is to have cool gadget and you can't even go on internet with it, right?

Well here are posts that might help you resolve iPod Touch connectivity issue:

iPod Touch Wi-Fi (Part 1)

iPod Touch Wi-Fi (Part 2)

iPod Touch Wi-FI (Wireless Issues)

I checked apple discussion board for ipod touch saw many wi-fi questions. So I thought this is not a trick but it is a tip on how to setup your ipod touch for wireless.

First ask your self do you have secured or unsecured wireless connection?

If secured:

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Wi-FI
3. Click on Your Wireless
4. Punch in your WEP key
5. Connect to it.

If NOT Secured
Follow all steps above except no.4

If you have problems connecting with your Ipod touch to your wireless please comment bellow and I will resolve your issue by answering as well. Or email me ilovetoargue at gmail dot com

UPDATE 09/11/2009: Please check this post:

Great Tutorial by MWD

Ipod Touch WiFi (Wireless Troubleshooting) Part 2
Ipod Touch Wireless Problems

Visit Ipod Touch Forum For Troubleshooting WiFi - Post Question and get answer by others and me as well.