Nah it's not just at home, even the university and work network, wifi is still slow.
Besides, I'm not switching a router just for a phone when other devices are working on it fine.
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Painfully slow WiFi on new iPhone 5
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Nah it's not just at home, even the university and work network, wifi is still slow.
Besides, I'm not switching a router just for a phone when other devices are working on it fine.
In my case its a brand new router/modem given out by Verizon fios 3 months ago.
Its not the router, every other single device connects, works and stays connected fine.
Its just my i5 having problems.
add me to this crappy list of ******* wi-fi connectivity with the iPhone 5! such PITA. 6.0.1 update did nada. will have to make a trip to the Apple store. And I love when they say "Oh, we haven't heard of this." 
Iphone 5 @ 6.0.1 with an Asus AC66U (.246 firmware) / 5ghz WPA 2 AES - 40mhz channel.
after a while, all traffic stops. however Wi-Fi Icon is still up there.
MAC OUI is 88:53:95...apple manufactured.
after a while, all traffic stops. however Wi-Fi Icon is still up there.
MAC OUI is 88:53:95...apple manufactured.
Not the slow problem, but the not connecting probem
I had the WiFi problem today on my two day old iPhone 5. Running iOS 6.0.1 on all my devices. iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPads etc all work on this network fine, but iPhone 5 just wouldn't connect. The network has multiple access points on different channels, and using both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands - iPhone 5 wouldn't work on any of the them.
So I did some googling and tried all the various suggestions:
From looking up the MAC address of the WiFi chip in my iPhone 5, it's an Apple one (apparently some people have Intel ones).
Setting a Client ID on the iPhone made no difference.
Setting HTTP Auto Proxy made no difference.
Turning bluetooth on made no difference.
Resettng network settings made no difference.
Then I noticed that it was showing a self assigned 169.254 IP address... so I set the iPhone 5 to use a manually configured Static IP rather than DHCP, but still with the router as the DNS server, and boom it works perfectly. Change back to using DHCP and it won't connect. So it's something up with DHCP on the iPhone 5.
I then updated the firmware on the router and now the iPhone 5's DHCP works perfectly. Of-course you could argue it both ways:
I had the WiFi problem today on my two day old iPhone 5. Running iOS 6.0.1 on all my devices. iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPads etc all work on this network fine, but iPhone 5 just wouldn't connect. The network has multiple access points on different channels, and using both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands - iPhone 5 wouldn't work on any of the them.
So I did some googling and tried all the various suggestions:
From looking up the MAC address of the WiFi chip in my iPhone 5, it's an Apple one (apparently some people have Intel ones).
Setting a Client ID on the iPhone made no difference.
Setting HTTP Auto Proxy made no difference.
Turning bluetooth on made no difference.
Resettng network settings made no difference.
Then I noticed that it was showing a self assigned 169.254 IP address... so I set the iPhone 5 to use a manually configured Static IP rather than DHCP, but still with the router as the DNS server, and boom it works perfectly. Change back to using DHCP and it won't connect. So it's something up with DHCP on the iPhone 5.
I then updated the firmware on the router and now the iPhone 5's DHCP works perfectly. Of-course you could argue it both ways:
- All other computers, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPads etc work perfectly on this network... so it's the iPhone 5 at fault.
- The fix was updating the routers firmware, so it was something wrong with its DHCP server.
I have updated my router's firmware but to no avail, the problem still persists.
I'm getting a 20th of my wifi speed on iPhone 5 running 6.0.1 while my iPad 2 running 6.0.1 right beside it gets maximum speed on my line.
Based on that it appears this is a hardware issue.
Based on that it appears this is a hardware issue.
Well, I can confirm that the problem still persists with the iPhone 5 replacement that the Genius provided, this is just wow.. and I thought my issue is resolved. This sucks, might have to visit them again.
I don't think it's the hardware either,,, it's software but they just haven't released an update to fix it or they are unaware of it,, my wifi is fast but watching http live streaming it buffers every minute of so
guys try pressing renew lease, I don't want to read through 5+ pages. All it does is request a new IP to tell your router that you're still connected
I had issues with WIFI on my first iPhone 5.. The earpiece broke and I had a new device shipped to me.
My replacement iPhone hasn't had any issues.
Considering I couldn't hear ANYTHING when in a call on a PHONE.. Yes. I got it replaced for free for being a faulty iPhone.
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Ah! No big deal
I was wondering why I caught such grief because it was a pretty valid issue lolThe wifi issue is def phone related as my sis has the iphone 5 and I still have my Droid X2 and while watching the same video from youtube on our phones, at the same time, hers kept buffering and loading really slow while mine loaded really quickly and never paused to buffer. I thought her phone was defective, but after reading through this thread I see it's not just her phone.
So yours doesn't actually buffer when you watch YouTube or other live stream on wifi? If you don't mind, does the serial number also start with F1?
my iphone 5 would crash my entire home internet when it connected. Had to upgrade router firmware.
I haven't seen mine buffer since I've had it (replacement iPhone).. Did you wanna know my WIFI address or serial number, though?
I remember people comparing their WIFI addresses' and linking that to the WIFI issue...
Yeah sure, both works. I got a replacement starting with a serial number F1 but still with an Apple made wifi chip; still having wifi issues.
My serial number starts with DN and WIFI address of 98:FE.
The faulty iPhone that I swapped had a WIFI address of 54:26... Although, I don't remember what the serial number started with.
