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iPad Wi-Fi Issues to be Addressed in Software Update

iPad Wi-Fi Issues to be Addressed in Software Update

There is no way that only a small number are users are affected! I traveled abroad this past week with my ipad. ANYWHERE that required a login and a password to connect to the internet wouldn't work. I couldn't even access internet in the Paris airport. Had an iphone, and It was completely able to in each scenario.
 
Jelite said:
Why are people still using WEP anyway, thats like owning a cycle lock and securing your bike with a piece of string.
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If it is possible to get a newer and more responsive way to sign in with a router, then I'd be a happy camper. Our 2Wire at&t, I think, requires a WEP number.
 
RalfTheDog said:
Sorry for the double post. Could those who are having problems post some information. Do you have a repeater on your network? How many other wireless networks can you see where you are having problems. Have you tried changing channels? What frequency are you using? Have you tried setting your iPad to run on a static IP?

Those of us who have had problems should post our solutions (The ones that worked and the ones that did not).

There are a large number of iPad users here. If we can find the common elements, we can find a solution.
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I too was having the same problems as mentioned here. I am now geting a full WiFi signal off our at&t 2WIRE DNS router after reconfiguring a DHCP connection. Not the static. So far, full bars. We'll see how long it lasts.

UPDATE: Now that I have gone and posted this as a "fix" it seems I'm back to less than full strength on the WiFi curved icon. Oh, what to do!
 
saving107 said:
I have had zero issues with my WiFi iPad that I've had since launch day.

and yes, the couple thousand of people who visit these forums and complain are a very small number compared to apples 1 million iPad users (so far)

MacRumors Forum
"Currently Active Users: 4512"
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Princeton University said the problem they identified affects 50% of users. That's not "very small" by any definition.
 
RalfTheDog said:
That sounds very much like a DHCP conflict where the iPad is using it's IP address long after the lease is up. If you set the iPad up with a static IP, You may well have no more problems.
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Yeah that works really well when you leave the house and attempt to connect to another network. Or are we supposed to leave our iPads in the living room for the rest of time?
 
g13000 said:
I think all of us "Unlucky few" understand we are unlucky. HOWEVER, paying $500+ for something should not be a gamble. I'll go to the track for those urges. When I buy a device I want it to work, regardless if I am the only one in 4 billion... All that being said, all I want is them to address it, which they have, and fix it, which they are going to. BUT that does not mean, the "unlucky few" should just shut up. We have a right to be frustrated.
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QFT
Perhaps you "Lucky" ones should consider how little you contribute to this thread.
You haven't experienced the problems, so you have no perspective.
 
Bregalad said:
Yeah that works really well when you leave the house and attempt to connect to another network. Or are we supposed to leave our iPads in the living room for the rest of time?
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If you go back to a public hotspot, you might release and renew your IP. These might not be perfect fixes, they will help until Apple releases a patch. If you can't fix a problem right now, do what you can to mitigate the damage. wandering around weeping and gnashing teeth is not an effective strategy.
 
MacAgnostic said:
QFT
Pherhaps you "Lucky" ones should consider how little you contribute to this thread.
You haven't experienced the problems, so you have no perspective.
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If you are working on a solution or a way to mitigate the problem, you are contributing. If you are not helping find a solution, you are not contributing.

Being one of the very small number of people affected does not have any relation to being helpful or not.
 
RalfTheDog said:
Being one of the very small number of people affected does not have any relation to being helpful or not.
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Sure, but that isn't what I said.
Posts like "It works for me" doesn't help those of us who are "unlucky".

I have observed it claiming the password is invalid and prompting a re-entry which succeeds.
On the surface it appears to have forgotten the password, but this isn't the case;
if I cancel the re-entry it will shortly attempt to reconnect and ask me to choose the network, this succeeds.

I have the Facebook app running push notifications, so I think that is causing the problem to be more noticable (occurs while using any app).
 
tratclif said:
I'm betting the issue is not technical expertise, but Apple programming culture.

When Apple reads a technical standard to say "this" and other manufacturers say that it reads "that," then by God and Steve Jobs the device drivers will support only "this," where Windows and Linux programmers will write their drivers to support "this (but try that, too)".
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From all that I've read this is just a plain old programming bug. Let's say your router gives the iPad an IP address for four hours. The iPad will stop using that address after four hours and ask for a new one as it should. The problem is apparently that if your iPad goes to sleep in these four hours, something in the software doesn't realise that time passes when it sleeps, so it doesn't realise when the four hours are over. This has nothing to do with the interpretation of a standard, just a bug in the software.
 
MacAgnostic said:
Sure, but that isn't what I said.
Posts like "It works for me" doesn't help those of us who are "unlucky".

I have observed it claiming the password is invalid and prompting a re-entry which succeeds.
On the surface it appears to have forgotten the password, but this isn't the case;
if I cancel the re-entry it will shortly attempt to reconnect and ask me to choose the network, this succeeds.

I have the Facebook app running push notifications, so I think that is causing the problem to be more noticable (occurs while using any app).
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What kind of network are you on? Is it public or private? Does it run from only one access point or is it extended?

gnasher729 said:
From all that I've read this is just a plain old programming bug. Let's say your router gives the iPad an IP address for four hours. The iPad will stop using that address after four hours and ask for a new one as it should. The problem is apparently that if your iPad goes to sleep in these four hours, something in the software doesn't realise that time passes when it sleeps, so it doesn't realise when the four hours are over. This has nothing to do with the interpretation of a standard, just a bug in the software.
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That is the easy problem to fix. If you set up a static IP address, you don't need to deal with release/renew issues. Some people are saying things that make me think there may be an issue with conflicts between nodes in an extended network. There may also be issues with badly configured routers that connect with both 11g and 11n networks.

It can be rather annoying troubleshooting when you have more than one bug.
 
i had this problem.. not anymore

The wifi went out on my iPad after a month of heavy use.
I have an apple airport extreme router.
I tried all the suggestions in the apple forums and on the apple support pages...
changing settings.. reseting settings.. restoring iPad.. nothing worked.

The wifi icon was gone from the corner and would not come back.
Then i found a solution.
I saw someone mention in the apple forums that they left an iPad off for 8 hours, and wifi came back. I left it off for 5 hours... no wifi..
Then i turned it off again and left it off overnight.

I turned it back on and wifi was back!

I know this shouldn't be happening anyway, but it will at least hold me over til the software update... i hope. :)
 
I personally had some Apple WiFi issues once my wife got a MBP and an iPhone. We have a time capsule and were connecting 3 Apple computers, 2 iPhones and an iPod touch and it seemed that at times the devices were trying to grab the same addresses and it messed up the connections.

This seems to be an issue no longer. I don't know if a software update fixed this or the devices are all just settled now but my iPad connects without an issue ... also glad mine is 3G just in case!
 
I don't know what everyone is talking about - I haven't had any problems at al#&@!#&*%#(%

NO CARRIER


Sent from my iPad
 
My 64gb WiFi + 3G model is frequently forgetting my password and dropping signal. Quite annoying. I still haven't activated 3G yet, so I can't comment on any issues regarding that.
 
BruiserBear said:
I think even some of the people who think they're not having any problems, are likely just not noticing certain things.


For example, with my d-link router I'm getting normal performance and signal about 99% of the time, but I routinely notice my wifi signal just vanishing for a split second almost every 60 seconds or so. It's very weird, but it doesn't seem to generally affect the performance. Only a few times have I actually had the iPad lose the signal entirely, and attempt to reconnect, even when I was 15 feet away from the router.

The bottom line is that there is something wonky with the wifi software code in the iPad. That is for sure.
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Having the same issue: exactly (!) every 60 seconds I lose the signal for less than a second. It then reconnects automatically.

I have an Airport Extreme base station. Wondering whether I should exchange my iPad or wait for a software fix.
 
Just bought my iPad on6/1 and still having the weak wifi signal issues close to router. Has there been an update? Anyone know the status of this issue?
 
Golfer00ksu said:
Just bought my iPad on6/1 and still having the weak wifi signal issues close to router. Has there been an update? Anyone know the status of this issue?
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Me too. Just picked up a 32gb 3G model last night and the WIFI STINKS!!!! Anyone have any ideas?
 
I'd been getting less then impressive wifi speeds. After some googling I came across the suggestion of turning off auto-brightness.. So I tried it here at work. Using the free Speedtest X app, with auto-brightness on, I got 2.51Mbps down, which has been about the best I've ever gotten. I turned auto-brightness off - and got 10.58Mbps down. Thats 4x the speed! Thats more like I expected. Apple have a hardware or software bug somewhere here. I'm happy to leave auto-brightness off though - I'm happy. I'm looking forward to trying it at home now.
 
Ugh. Looking at Apple's responsiveness on this issue (close to two months since acknowledging the issue and still no fix) doesn't lend much hope to fixing (or even admitting to) the antenna issues on the iPhone 4 anytime in the near future.
 
jrbdmb said:
Ugh. Looking at Apple's responsiveness on this issue (close to two months since acknowledging the issue and still no fix) doesn't lend much hope to fixing (or even admitting to) the antenna issues on the iPhone 4 anytime in the near future.
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Remember, there's never any problem with Apple devices. You're just using them wrong.
 
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