Painfully slow WiFi on new iPhone 5

[Insilin1i]

I'm also getting really slow wifi speeds, hopefully they figure it out soon.

 

[karmatourer]

Mine too-no issues.

my wifi has been stable and very very fast. I'm at a coffee shop now and hasn't dropped yet

 

[Dawgz]

My wifi isn't slow but is showing 2-3 bars when I'm sitting right next to the router. Is anyone else getting this also?? Any explanation??

 

[bryan85]

Ran a continuos ping against my iPhone. This would explain a lot:
56 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 76.8% packet loss

Ill keep fidgeting with it and update this thread if I find anything.

 

[kendu2412]

Confirmed : iPhone 5 WIFI real slow.

+ with Macbook Pro : 22 Mbps down , 5 Mbps up , 18 ping
+ with iPhone 5 : 4 Mbps down , 1 Mbps up , 44 ping

Hope will be fix on iOS 6.0.1 ( or 6.1 )

 

[dbslayer]

I changed my router back to WPA2 and will just use LTE. Other computers were slower using WEP

Same for me .. LTE is faster than my 100Mbits home internet!

 

[bryan85]

So here is my network setup. Cable modem -> latest gen Time Capsule(latest firmware). Running strictly N mode on both bands. All devices are on the 5GHz band. When running a continuous ping against my iPad, or my wife's iPhone 5, I get 0% packet loss. However, the same ping test ran at the same time to my iPhone 5, I get roughly 80% packet loss every time. Guess I will be contacting Apple to get my phone replaced. This is insane! I haven't even had the phone for 24 hours yet.

 

[brberg]

Having the same issue here. Really pissed off that Apple of all companies wouldn't have performed more thorough wifi testing. Hopefully we'll have a solution or workaround by tomorrow.

 

[TheCakeIsALie]

might be a 5ghz issue. i was getting slow speeds and disconnects on the 5ghz band, but after i switched to the regular 2.4ghz one it's been fast and stable

 

[Leonard1818]

ever since setting up my iphone 5, my wifi will go down (whole network, not just lose connection to my phone) every so often. it'll only stay down for 2 minutes or so, but it goes down.

WTF?

Thoughts?

Suggestions?

 

[bryan85]

might be a 5ghz issue. i was getting slow speeds and disconnects on the 5ghz band, but after i switched to the regular 2.4ghz one it's been fast and stable

I tried the 2.4 band and it did not make a difference. I was 4 feet from the wireless router when doing the testing.

 

[Mengels7]

might be a 5ghz issue. i was getting slow speeds and disconnects on the 5ghz band, but after i switched to the regular 2.4ghz one it's been fast and stable

Tried em both, no cigar.

 

[Spink10]

My family has 2 iphone 5's - one has zero problems on wifi - another one is crazy slow and cuts off frequent.

 

[scapla]

Wpa/wpa2

There's a thread on the Apple Support Communities forum on this issue:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4322714?start=45&start=0

I discovered that when using WPA/WPA2 security on my Belkin N600 router my wifi speeds were really slow. When I changed the security to 128 bit WEP (or removed it entirely), the speed increased to what I was getting on my iPhone 4. Hope this helps...

 

[noteple]

Both 4s and 5 ran network diagnostics and http://speedtest.net with similar results at the limit of our ISP through dual band AirPort Extreme.

The 4s on G and the 5 on N also with the same results.

Sounds like a hardware problem with your phone.

If you are going to swap at the store anyway try a restore as new, don't restore any backups and repeat your testing.

 

[brberg]

Changing my wireless router settings to WEP did improve the speed. However, it's still much slower than it should be over wireless N. I'm getting 6 down and 1 up, whereas my iPad 3 is getting over 15mbps down and up (Fios). My wife just got her iPhone 5 today as well and the same problem exists. Really frustrating since I want to use wireless 90% of the time

 

[toekneeg]

Mine has been killer fast. Speedtest showed 39 mb/s consistently.

 

[Bxy95]

It depends how you hold it! Running the speedtest.net app I get 27mb dl and 9mb up every time if I set it down, 1-2mb up and down, and occasional pauses, if I'm holding the edges.

 

[snoz]

case issue

if you have a case on your iphone 5, try taking it off and running the speed test again.

if that doesnt work: settings > general > reset > reset network settings

 

[brberg]

None of the above solutions have worked for me. Not to mention, the battery appears to be draining faster - likely due to some antenna issue where it's having to gain up due to poor signal.

 

[Daremo]

Add me as well. Wifi drops off, slow speeds, then it's fine, then it crawls again. Ugh...

 

[bryan85]

I changed the name of my guest network and completely left it unsecured. All is right in the world again. Definitely looks like a WPA issue. Now if Apple can get off their ass and patch this, that would be great. This problem should have never made it this far.

 

[Vengeful]

My iPhone5 (46 ms ping) and IPad (15ms ping) both downloading similar speeds, iPhone half a mb faster on uploads. Ran the tests a couple of times same results no problem here.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Same issue for me as well. For me it is all encrypted networks. This needs to be fixed ASAP. This seems to either be a very widespread hardware issue or a software issue. Do you think it is worth it to try and get a replacement? or just wait it out and see what Apple does?

 

[tsa1]

My wifi and "4g" Data are slow. 1.7mbps for att when I used to get over 5mbps in the same location.