Airport Extreme drops device connections

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Hey everyone,

My wife and I went out last night and bought iPhones! Well we got home and connected to our airport and for some reason it keeps dropping the connection on the phones. Currently we only have an imac, macbook pro, 2 iphones and a printer setup on the airport. Is there something I can do to prevent this? A lot of times when I try to connect the iphone it says unable to join. There is a pass setup and we are the only ones who have it.

Thanks ahead of time.
dustin
 
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Well I am connected to the router, but the internet doesn't work. Sorry should have specified.
 

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Well I am connected to the router, but the internet doesn't work. Sorry should have specified.

OK, you said it was dropping the connection, which would imply that it was connected at some point. Can you please clarify exactly what the problem is?
 
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Sorry about that. I didn't mean to be vague. Well it shows the wireless connection at full strength, but i can't get on the internet. I read somewhere to click the little blue arrow next to the network name and erase the dns numbers and try again. it works every now and then, but after a few min or whenever I come back to the iphone it says server cannot be found.

Hope that helps. I appreciate your time.
dustin
 

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Sorry about that. I didn't mean to be vague. Well it shows the wireless connection at full strength, but i can't get on the internet. I read somewhere to click the little blue arrow next to the network name and erase the dns numbers and try again. it works every now and then, but after a few min or whenever I come back to the iphone it says server cannot be found.

Hope that helps. I appreciate your time.
dustin

Which type of wireless security is your AirPort set up to use?
 
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it is wap now. I can connect, but it is super slow and will still periodically not allow me to have internet.
 

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Yeah, I don't think you have a security issue. WPA2 should be fine.

No issues with speed on the laptops? It's just the iPhones?
 

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