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iPhone 5 WiFi issues - Post your chip manufacture company

All chips are Apple chips. The intel thing was a mistake.

All my problems have been solved by cycling bluetooth (previously my problems were solved by a reboot) So I then deleted my phone from my car's bluetooth and my car from my phone, and now I have no problems at all. Previously anytime my phone paired with my car, WIFI stopped until I rebooted.

This might explain why new phones were working for a while for people. They might not have set up the bluetooth yet. My car just replaced the phone from my old one. Maybe something was left over?
 
Apple, extremely slow at times on a 5Ghz WPA2 network. One 6mb podcast took 30 minutes to download on my phone.

I have a 30/30 fiber connection.
 
I am also having wifi issues, but only when my phone has a case on.. I have purchased 3 different cases, and all of them block my signal unless I am right next to the wifi source..
 
98:FE Apple Chip, constantly having Wifi problems. Have to reboot my router for the iPhone to connect to it again. Really is a pain :(
 
88:53 Apple, and still having issues on my wifi while my iPhone 4 doesn't.

Already made a Genius appointment to check what's going on, cause I can't even stream Netflix cause it is painfully slow.
 
I took my phone in to an Apple store yesterday to buy AppleCare+ and to have them look into the wifi problems I'm having with my iphone 5 (slow connections, frequent disconnects, not seeing wifi networks, etc.). They told me that they had received a bulletin stating that Apple is aware of the issue and that they are working on a fix (two different guys told me that). They also said that they were only swapping out phones for people who are unable to connect to wifi at all. I'm sure I could have forced the issue and gotten them to give me a new phone but I have very little confidence that a new phone would solve the issue.
 
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psywzrd said:
I took my phone in to an Apple store yesterday to buy AppleCare+ and to have them look into the wifi problems I'm having with my iphone 5 (slow connections, frequent disconnects, not seeing wifi networks, etc.. They told me that they had received of a bulletin stating that Apple is aware of the issue and that they are working on a fix (two different guys told me that). They also said that they were only swapping out phones for people who are unable to connect to wifi at all. I'm sure I could have forced the issue and gotten them to give me a new phone but I have very little confidence that a new phone would solve the issue.
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Interesting. They told me the same thing that they're working on it, so I figured I'll just wait it out. My iPhone 5 also buffers video very slow on wifi while my iPhone 4 is having no issues.
 
68:96 Apple chip here (well, all of them are Apple, the Intel thing sounds like a fluke to me).

It works fine on all the networks I've tested so far:

- Home: Airport Extreme, tried both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands (different network names), get the full DSL speed (30/3 Mbit/s)
- Home: AVM Fritz!Box 7390 DSL router, also tried both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, also get the full DSL speed
- Work: Cisco access points, I get the full speed
- Friend's home: Airport Extreme and AVM Fritz!Box, same setup I have at home, get the full Fiber speed (50/5 Mbit/s).

All networks use WPA2.

I've only had trouble a couple of times connecting to public networks (also using WPA2) where it timed out connecting after I entered the password. Disabling and re-enabling Wifi would solve it.
 
dave8209 said:
is anyone else experiencing this? is there any fix
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I'm on a 4S upgraded to iOS6, and recently I've been noticing that I occasionally get kicked off my home WiFi network. Never had that issue before until now.

Regards,
Tom
 
Yep, same with mine. Although it tends do do different things each new day:rolleyes:. I have tried it at home and at AT&T.
 
Apple chip.

I have some problems with it, going to the Apple Store to meet my genius... lol
 
No issues with WiFi.

Wifi Chip:
MAC address 04F7E4
Company Apple

Wireless Router:
D-Link DIR-655 with WPA2 security
 
My iPhone 5 has issues with my home wifi. It works sometimes and doesn't others. Very hit and miss. Doesn't seem to be a signal issue, I can have full strength and it will still seat and spin trying to open a web page. I can have my iPad, with iOS 6, right beside my phone and it has know problem with wifi. Is very frustrating not knowing when wifi will work. Hope they get a fix soon.
 
Apple chip.

BIG wifi problems. My 4 and all my other internet devices are always connected and have strong signals.

5 wifi drops every so often. Also its normally just 1 -2 wifi bars. BAD signal.
 
poor wifi iphone 5

been running Speed Tests with ipad 3, ipad 2, iphone 5 next to each other on 2.4 ghz N only and 5 ghz N only...iphone 5 performance is significantly worse on all tests...when the others are getting 15Mbps download, iphone's getting 5 or something...what is going on here?

...am finding ESPECIALLY poor results on the 5GHZ band...sometimes totally unable to connect just maybe 20ft from the router (Belkin n600 HD running Tomato Shibby 1.28)
 
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jokerz126 said:
been running Speed Tests with ipad 3, ipad 2, iphone 5 next to each other on 2.4 ghz N only and 5 ghz N only...iphone 5 performance is significantly worse on all tests...when the others are getting 15Mbps download, iphone's getting 5 or something...what is going on here?

...am finding ESPECIALLY poor results on the 5GHZ band...sometimes totally unable to connect just maybe 20ft from the router (Belkin n600 HD running Tomato Shibby 1.28)
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n never get 5ghz working either. It will either say can't connect or when its connected it never transmits data.
 
so whats the solution then? is this a software fix? or are we talking hardware?
still in the first 30 days here...went and got Ghost Armor protection on the full phone...if i have to swap this out, will lose that $45 :(
 
Some routers for some reason don't play well with the Iphone5. If your having a problem change your router.
 
bushman4 said:
Some routers for some reason don't play well with the Iphone5. If your having a problem change your router.
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You do realize that this is a ridiculous suggestion, right? People have numerous devices that work perfectly well with their routers yet you're suggesting that they change routers because the iphone 5 is having problems connecting and/or staying connected to that same router. The problem is with the iphone 5. I don't know if it's a hardware issue, a software issue or a firmware issue but something is clearly wrong with the iphone 5 and its ability to handle wifi.
 
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