iPhone WiFi Connection breaks frequently – No Fix? (UPDATED)

UPDATE 2010-10-20: Our fix was to replace the wireless access point and the router with a new Netgear WNR2000 WiFi Router. We were lucky that we were able to use that old Linksys equipment for 6 years before it was obsolete.  (I mean, come on, the old devices still said “Linksys” on them.)

Now, on to the old story as if it were new…

Our iPhone WiFi connections will frequently stop working even though the WiFi symbol remains visible in the iPhone’s status bar.  We suspect that there is some janky business happening when our iPhones toggle between the cell network and our local WiFi network during the phones’ sleep/wake cycles, as well as at other times.

Nothing we have tried has fixed the problem.  Our next step will be to buy new networking gear, but we have no guarantee that will fix anything. The “fix” that has worked best for us is to try to keep the iPhone WiFi connection alive all of the time, and those settings are described here as well as in this blog post.  If you want to know more about our journey and to see if our problem matches yours, read on…

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Bedtime Stories with a preschooler

Ever wonder what it’s like to read a bedtime story with a pre-schooler?  Wonder no more.  Enjoy this 8 minute clip of me reading to one of our kids right before bedtime, with a few interruptions…