iOS reliability of reachability on WIFI networks

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/15/11 6:51 PM, Jim Lambert wrote:
>
> reachabilityChanged will sometimes return an empty reachabilityInfo.
> This is supposed to indicate no internet connection at all. However,
> other apps are able to connect!
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> This only happens intermittently (don't you hate that word?!) and
> unfortunately I have no recipe to force it to happen. Although
> sometimes moving a device into the range a different WIFI network
> will sometimes cause the problem.
>
> I have found that sometimes the problem can sometimes be corrected by
> turning on and then off airplane mode or shutting on or off the
> device's wifi setting.

Is the network SSID hidden? What you're describing is exactly what I get 
on my Android device, with any app, on a network that isn't broadcasting 
its identity. It's a known issue with Android, I wonder if it's also a 
problem with iOS.

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