Wifi home router problem

Recently, I got a message from AT&T that I'm near my data limit. This surprised me as my last cycle I barely got near 500mb. Since my bill isn't ready yet, I can't see exactly what it is I'm doing to use so much data.

To be safe, I figured I'd pull out my old router and set it up (D-Link WBS 2310). After hours of hassle getting it to work on my new computer, I wasn't able to get my Captivate to hook up to it.

My laptop gets on fine, gets a fast wifi signal, but my phone just says "Obtaining IP address" for a while and then gives up.

My Captivate gets wifi at work, at friends' houses, at coffee shops - but not at home.

I've set it up with no encryption, WEP encryption and WPA2 encryption.

Each time my laptop would hook up to the wifi but my phone wouldn't.

I searched some other forums and found similar problems with HTC phones.

Some answers say that D Link sucks. But that answer applies to other brands as well.

I don't want to buy another router only to find it still doesn't work.

Any help?

first of all dlink does suck lol

have you tried manually entering the afress as well as letting the phone automatically finding the router?

did you use this router in the past to connect to your labtop?

Well here's an  interesting turn. Remember how I said that my wifi worked everywhere else, like cafes and friends' houses? It seems that is no longer the case. I went to coffee and it searched in vain for an ip address. Then again at another cafe. So this is a whole new problem There's probably nothing wrong with my router. It used to work. I don't know what could have possible changed. I'm going to do a search on the forums.

Thanks everybody.

I reset my phone to factory stock using Odin and Wifi works again. Sooo relieved I don't have to return the phone; I think I had one day left on my 30 day. The router seems to only work intermittently though, so I ordered a new one from newegg. I'm still wondering how I've managed to use 2gigs of data in two weeks.

I am having the same type of problem.  This is going to sound a little crazy, but go w/ me... I have ATT service for my cell phone and just recently got the Captivate.  I have Verizon wireless for my home internet (I live in a rural area w/ no dsl available, so go w/ a MiFi2200 from Verizon).  I have connected to the MiFi via my Captivate, but sometimes if it gets disconnected, for whatever reason, it won't reconnect... It searches & searches for the IP address as the OP said.

Also, what kind of wireless "device" are these phones equipped w/?  I have my MiFi set up to get the best signal & it never moves.  My desktop is located in the same room as the MiFi, so gets a great signal; I use a laptop throughout the rest of the house & always get at least 3 bars of wireless signal... Sitting here now, approximately 35 ft. from the MiFi (w/ walls in between), 3 bars of wireless signal from my laptop, none on the Captivate.  Is there any way to make the Captivate get a better signal from my MiFi?

TIA!!!