Reports of Slow and Inconsistent Wi-Fi Connections on Some iPhone 5 Devices

[Drkknight1978]

I have recently aquired an Iphone 5. I've also been experiencing painfully slow connections my Speed test results came out as follows...

Ping 204ms, Download 0.5mbps Upload 0.24mbps.

The funny thing was it seemed to be only happening in the evening.

in the morning i was getting much better results.

What's the difference? i have my desktop (connected by Wifi on in the evening... Switching the computer off and bingo results very reasonable for my broadband ISP.

Now, i want to used my computer and my new phone so have been fishing around. I find that is i close my Bit Torrent Client my speeds ramp right up!

Without Bit Torrent - 42ms/11.8mbps/0.92bps

Hope this helps.

[Shaddow825]

On the apple.com discussion forums we've found that this might have something to do with bluetooth. Try turning off bluetooth and seeing if it helps. In my case, everytime I connected to my car bluetooth I couldn't connect to my home network afterwards until I rebooted. After I toggled bluetooth things worked again for me. So I deleted my phone from my car and my car from my phone and repaired everything and I am all good. Others have restored their network speeds by turning bluetooth off. And others who never had bluetooth on at all got better by toggling it on and off. So there seems to be some sort of relationship with it in IOS6.

[dictoresno]

i just exchanged my at&t iphone 5 for a verizon one. i had no issues with the at&t one, but the verizon one was choking on my home wifi. speed test wasnt even registering, was stuck at testing ping. apps were downloading SLOW but sometimes stalling. a hard reboot fixed it. thank god, thought i had a dud.

[aliensporebomb]

Originally Posted by imariopereira

When I get mine I will be able to tell by myself...

I think this is more than acceptable.

[Deako]

So in the end I setup am unencrypted wifi network at home. Tied down with mac filtering and a hidden ssid. Now this has also reverted to running slow on my iPhone 5. What a joke.

[d510r9]

i have my old 4s and iPhone 5 side by side. Repeated tests, average results:

iPhone 4s
Ping ~35ms
Download ~12 Mbps
Upload ~ 0.75 Mbps

iPhone 5
Ping ~300ms
Download ~0.22 Mbps
Upload ~ 0.52 Mbps

LTE isn't an option to turn off as it's hidden (Vodafone UK, LTS network not built).

[Cavalier777]

Originally Posted by stevers

Because you will never need more than 640k of memory.

you'll never eat more than 10lbs of food daily.

[cmanbrazil]

The fix is to get a new phone. Its faulty. I did and now have no problem connecting to my home or any other wifi I tried. Please don't let your return period pass.

[adamtore]

Originally Posted by dwhittington

The problem with using sites like Speedtest.com for this testing is that it is highly dependent on the customer's ISP and access point(s) which have little to NOTHING to do with the iPhone 5.

The problem with people on the internet is that they don't read properly. Users who reported the problem are saying that their 4/4s have up to 5x faster downloads on the same wifi... so their ISP speedtests run from an iphone5?

[uberhamster]

I realise this is rather late, but just in case anybody else is in a similar situation:

I had this problem today, but swapping my (Time Capsule) router's DNS settings from Google DNS to my ISP's fixed this issue for me.

[satcomer]

Originally Posted by Concorde Rules

Ironic really, because my iPhone 5 and all other attached devices are working perfectly with it...

Come back in two years and tell me that. You will be lucky if it doesn't fail in two years time.

[nburwell]

I noticed last weekend that when I was using my i5 that my wifi was painfully slow. I reset the router and did a hard reset on my phone. After that, my wifi speeds have been fine. I had no connectivity issues with my i5, just my wifi being painfully slow (which I seem to have corrected).

[jonghoyu]

I know this is a old thread, but I just got my iPhone 5 yesterday and app downloads over wifi are really slow. I have 5Ghz WiFi and according to speedtest.net's app, I get 42Mbit down, 23 up. Also web surfing is very fast, and so is app downloads on LTE or even HSPA+

[adlin]

Slow download speed especially from the App Store....

[nia820]

Is it the person's router or the actually iphone? Because I remember when I had a linksys router ,my ipod touch 4 was always disconnecting and reconnecting from wifi. Then when I got the belkin router I have now, it doesnt happen anymore.

[andyx3x]

Originally Posted by adlin

Slow download speed especially from the App Store....

For me as well.

Apps are extremely slow downloading and music as well. I'm currently downloading 28 songs and only 17 have downloaded in an hour and a half.

[Melloyello]

Lol, my iPod touch connects faster to wifi then my iPhone 5, I have the wifi bars up but it's still not reading it, I think it's with the new update or something, if I'm paying 80 a month I really wanna be able to use the Internet on it when I'm at work or home. But I must admit it is a lot faster then my iPhone 4, and way lighter.