[tomstrummer]

iPhone 3G, Firmware 2.2 (5G77). Modem FW 02.28.00 (latest baseband)
Insomnia 2.0, PDANet 1.41 (trial)

Using PDANet to tether my laptop. After about 10 to 15 minutes of the phone being in standby (screen off) the WiFi connection between the laptop and phone consistently gets dropped. If I happen to turn on the phone before then it seems to keep the connection alive.

So my first thought was maybe Insomnia isn't keeping (something) alive. But then I thought maybe PDANet is doing something funky, so I thought I'd check here first to see if anyone else has seen the same behavior.

Anyone??

[jreid]

i was getting the same problem. I was on win xp pro sp2. I noticed on other vista laptops i did not have this issue. i upgraded to vista and bingo. it works perfect now no disconnect issues.

[tomstrummer]

Originally Posted by jreid

i was getting the same problem. I was on win xp pro sp2. I noticed on other vista laptops i did not have this issue. i upgraded to vista and bingo. it works perfect now no disconnect issues.

Hmm.. thanks jreid for the update. It seems awfully odd that it would be fixed by waking the phone periodically if it is something WinXP is doing...

Can anyone else confirm this? Is there a wireless network manager replacement that might work better?

Thanks again.

[bruinsrme]

While using PDAnet I toggled al the settings so the screen didn't dim or the phone didn't go into standby/lockscreen.
After that I didn't have any more disconnects. the laptop is running vista.

[tomstrummer]

Originally Posted by bruinsrme

While using PDAnet I toggled al the settings so the screen didn't dim or the phone didn't go into standby/lockscreen.
After that I didn't have any more disconnects. the laptop is running vista.

So that would, in fact, suggest that the iPhone is going into 'standby' when Insomnia should be preventing it from doing so. The whole point of Insomnia is so you don't have to do that

I'll file a bug with Insomnia and maybe the dev can look into it.

[gmoctav]

i've got the same problem as you , tomstrummer , while running insomnia on an 2g , 2.2 iPhone linked through wireless to win XP SP2, when i was downloading a movie from comp to phone ; guess it's a bug in insomnia

[tomstrummer]

Originally Posted by gmoctav

i've got the same problem as you , tomstrummer , while running insomnia on an 2g , 2.2 iPhone linked through wireless to win XP SP2, when i was downloading a movie from comp to phone ; guess it's a bug in insomnia

Glad to hear I'm not crazy. I had opened up a bug on the Insomnia page here:
Issue 16 - iphone-insomnia - Google Code
And it looks like someone else opened a duplicate ticket here as well:
Issue 17 - iphone-insomnia - Google Code

For anyone who's interested in following this. Pls "star" it if you're interested in having it fixed.