iPhone network location doesn't save when disconnected

Hi guys.

I have an iPhone 4 which has internet tethering. I can either connect this via the USB cable or wirelessly via my intel 6300N wifi card.

When I connect to my laptop via USB cable, the 'Set Network Location' box comes up, which I select Home Network. It is simply named 'Network', but I then go in and change 'Network' to 'iPhone'. This then shows up in the Network and Sharing Centre as iPhone on a Home Network. This works perfectly, is super fast and when I'm finished, I disconnect the USB and shut down.

When I next turn on my laptop and connect my iPhone internet tether via USB cable, I am once again asked to ''Select a location for the 'Network' network''. Windows 7 netwkr and Sharing centre isn't recognising the same iPhone is connected and asks me to set up a home network again.

I've gone into 'Merge or delete network locations' and the original 'iPhone home network' is set up (not in use) as well as the new 'Network' location that it's asking me to set up. If I merge the second 'Network' and original 'iPhone network', this removes the second network and I'm left with the 'iPhone Home network (in use).

If I disconnect the iPhone and reconnect, it asks me each time to select a network location for the 'network' network. If I don't merge them, I end up with Network 2, Network 3, Network 4 etc all the while still having the original iPhone network not in use as well as any other not merged or deleted.

Can somebody please assist? Why won't it recognise the same iPhone as being connected and selecting the iphone home network that I set up and why does it keep asking me to create a new one whenever I connect?

This never happened before, with my laptop previously recognising the iPhone home network I originally created ages ago. There has been no significant updates or changes that I'm aware of, except that I updated my iPhone software, bt this has been done in the past numerous times with previous iPhone updates and hasn't happened before.

I have a Virgin wireless broadband usb modem, which the system recognises each time I connect it. It's only the iPhone connection that's not saving.
The iPhone network is 'unmanaged' but so is the Virgin Broadband USB.

I have a Pioneer Dreambook P170HMx running Windows 7pro x64. If there's any other details you need, I'm happy to supply them.

All I want is my system to save the network configuration and recognise when I connect the iPhone tethering that it's an already created iPhone Home Network.

Many thanks in advance.

Kind regards, Rob.

Hi jhansen965.

Connecting wirelessly through my 6300N wifi card always remains as iPhone, as it's been set up via the radio as such.

But, if I don't use my wifi car, bypass it and connect directly to my laptop via the USB cable, this is when it happens. Even if I don't rename the 'network' to 'iPhone', every time I do connect, a new network is created, respectively named 'network, network 1, network 2, network 3' etc etc. if I don't merge or delete them, I'd have a numerous amount of numbered networks for the exact same iPhone I am connecting.

In any event, I've completed what you suggested, I've deleted all existing network profiles and rebooted my laptop. When I connected my iPhone, a new 'network' was created. I then disconnected the USB cable and reconnected it and again a new network 'network 1' was created.

I have no idea why this is happening or why it's only recently decided to do this to me.

Hopefully I can find some generous wizard who has had this experienced and also had this fixed.

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers, Rob

I'm experiencing the same problem with USB connect (wifi ok), right after upgrading to ios5 - sorry I can't help, just want to add my experiencing the same problem. Hopefully someone has another idea as to a fix.
thank you,
Edmund

Thanks for replying. At least someone else has the same issue I am having.

This seems to have occurred at the time I installed iOS 5 so it's not a coincidence. This must be happening to all other iPhone users who use Internet tethering and have updated their iPhones to iOS 5.

If somebody comes up with a fix for this, can you please reply to this thread to help us all out.

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers, Rob

I'd really like to know if there's a solution to this as well.

It doesn't seem to be DHCP related, nor just disconnecting and reconnecting. For me its either long periods of being disconnected or restarting the computer that releases the iPhones network location :\

I have iOS5, iPhone 4 and Windows 7. And yeah, its only started happening since I upgraded to iOS5 as far as I can remember.

Hello!

I have the same problem too and it started when I install the iOS 5 on my iPhone.

Does anyone has a solution?

Thanks,

NA

Greetings everyone!

the same issue here, exactly after iOS 5 upgrade.

any workaround?

thanks,
crissi

Same thing here. Definitely iOS5 is where it started.

I use tetheing a lot too so it is really annoying.

Hope we find a solution soon

Same problem here...