I got my iPad in April and WiFi has never worked properly with my Linksys WRT350N router. It was almost unusable with 3.2 but Apple acknowledged the problem so I waited for 3.2.2 and that upgrade made it a lot better but, even though I no longer needed to reconnect about 30 times an hour (every 2 minutes), I still got about 20-30 times an hour where the connection would stall and time out and need a browser refresh to load the page. Because a software upgrade gave a huge improvement, and I knew 4.x was on the way, I decided to wait for that in the hope that it would finally fix all my issues.
Unfortunately 4.2.1 is, if anything, a step backwards for me. I still get the 20-30 connection stalls each hour but now they aren't all fixed by waiting for the network timeout and hitting refresh; I'm back to needing to reconnect to the network about 10 times an hour to get back connectivity.
I think that the time has come to give up on hoping that software will fix this and I need to book a Genius appointment and get a hardware swapout but I'm curious as to whether anyone else has had similar issues fixed with a hardware swap. My iPad works perfectly with two other routers that I've tried it with, and other equipment in my home works perfectly with my Linksys router, so it seems to be specific to the Linksys router but it's hardly an unknown router and I'm not optimistic about a hardware swap fixing it.
I really don't want to change my router just to make the iPad happy but I suppose that, if changing the iPad doesn't fix it, then that's all that I'm left with to do.
- Julian
Unfortunately 4.2.1 is, if anything, a step backwards for me. I still get the 20-30 connection stalls each hour but now they aren't all fixed by waiting for the network timeout and hitting refresh; I'm back to needing to reconnect to the network about 10 times an hour to get back connectivity.
I think that the time has come to give up on hoping that software will fix this and I need to book a Genius appointment and get a hardware swapout but I'm curious as to whether anyone else has had similar issues fixed with a hardware swap. My iPad works perfectly with two other routers that I've tried it with, and other equipment in my home works perfectly with my Linksys router, so it seems to be specific to the Linksys router but it's hardly an unknown router and I'm not optimistic about a hardware swap fixing it.
I really don't want to change my router just to make the iPad happy but I suppose that, if changing the iPad doesn't fix it, then that's all that I'm left with to do.
- Julian