[SOLVED] Wifi working on laptop but not on Android phone

[Wafcon]

Long story short my Laptop connects fine through this older router, but while my phone can see it, it doesn't have any internet access like my laptop does.
I tried modifying the network on my phone to a static IP and setting it myself, but I've tried numerous combinations and it wont work.
I've tried accessing the router admin login page but I cant get any IP to bring it up
I tried setting the router IP manually(on my laptop via ethernet) with no success, so I currently have it set on the automatic mode which is working and has assigned a 64.39......... type of ip which is working for my laptop, but again, not for my phone.
I've also tried configuring the router through the included program but it makes no difference.

The router is a dlink DWL-2100AP, I'm using windows 7, and my phone is running on Android Pie 9.0, if any of that matters.

In all honesty I don't have an abundance of networking knowledge and am probably just overlooking something, please help.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

Your router uses the 2.4 ghz band. Is your phone a 5ghz band perhaps?

 

[Wafcon]

Your router uses the 2.4 ghz band. Is your phone a 5ghz band perhaps?

I would assume my phone has 5ghz,as it is a newer phone (moto g6 plus), but would that prevent it entirely from obtaining a ip address from the network?

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

I would assume my phone has 5ghz,as it is a newer phone (moto g6 plus), but would that prevent it entirely from obtaining a ip address from the network?

Look at your phones wifi settings and see if you have a choice of switching to 2.4 or 5hz. If you do switch it to 2.4 for your home router. Or it may even have ability to scan for 2.4 or 5g signal on its own.

 

[gggplaya]

That router is wireless G, your phone probably doesn't support it, or was literally never tested with a G router and simply doesn't work. It likely will never work with a G router.

You need to spend like $30 and upgrade to an N router.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

It is a rated dlink DWL-2100AP IEEE 802.11b, 802.11 Super G, IEEE 802.11g. Your phone is dual band. Just switch it to 2.4 and you should be able to connect.

 

[gggplaya]

It is a rated dlink DWL-2100AP IEEE 802.11b, 802.11 Super G, IEEE 802.11g. Your phone is dual band. Just switch it to 2.4 and you should be able to connect.

No, there's no way to switch your phone between 2.4ghz or 5ghz. It finds all access points from those frequencies, you just connect to the SSID of the frequency you want. His router only transmits at 2.4ghz, so he is connecting to 2.4ghz.

The problem is wireless G is such an old standard that phone manufacturers are no longer validating their devices with it.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

Lol g is not that old, maybe to you if you are young. The phone is rated for a,b,g, and n. But ONLY for 5ghz which was my original thought.

 

[gggplaya]

My bathroom scale (Fitbit Aria) is G only and it wouldn't work with my D-Link router unless I set my router to B/G-only and turned off N wireless. I had to swap my router out for an Asus router (I wanted to upgrade anyways) and everything works fine.

G came out in 2003 and has pretty much been out of mainstream use for about a decade, it's old. I know because my first router was B only, then G , then N and now wireless AC and eventually wireless AX. Testing and validation of devices with G and B signals just aren't done anymore because it's <1% of the population using them. N has more distance and bandwidth. My bathroom scale only uses G for power savings.

 

[Wafcon]

It is a rated dlink DWL-2100AP IEEE 802.11b, 802.11 Super G, IEEE 802.11g. Your phone is dual band. Just switch it to 2.4 and you should be able to connect.

Yeah unfortunately for myself I cant seem to find any way to switch to 2.4ghz with my phone so I guess I'm SOL. But thanks for the help anyway!

 

[Wafcon]

That router is wireless G, your phone probably doesn't support it, or was literally never tested with a G router and simply doesn't work. It likely will never work with a G router.

You need to spend like $30 and upgrade to an N router.

Yeah I can't seem to switch my phone to 2.4ghz but it was still connecting to the network, just not acquiring an IP, which is why I guess I was so confused because if it were detecting it at all I believed it must've been compatible.

I had found a couple of these routers laying around and had hoped to establish a second network in my house but I guess I'll just have to upgrade.

Thanks!