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Painfully slow WiFi on new iPhone 5

I just received my phone from AT&T yesterday and am having issues as well. I don't believe swapping it out for something later in the production schedule will do any good since I just got the phone.

I suspect it's a combination of iOS 6 and the iPhone 5. My iPad 3 has not worked as well since I upgraded to iOS 6, but the iPhone 5 is horrible. If a patch does not come out soon, I'm returning the phone while I still can.

p.s. Why should we have to change routers or router settings when other devices work fine on the router?
 
Have gone through 3 iPhone 5's (screen issues), each one has had perfect WiFi on my Netgear WNDR3700.

I use the 5Ghz band and easily get 80Mbps+ on my 100Mbps connection with WPA2-PSK [AES].

Might be worth exchanging the iPhone if the WiFi is having issues.

 
Does the iPhone automatically detect 5ghz band and switch to it? I've yet to try broadcasting 5ghz because I think most of my devices don't support it.
 
LearnIIBurn said:
Does the iPhone automatically detect 5ghz band and switch to it? I've yet to try broadcasting 5ghz because I think most of my devices don't support it.
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in many cases, you can give your 2.4 and 5 channels separate names, and thus you can select which one to use. If you don't give them individual names, your phone will lock on many times to the strongest signal.
 
For those who are experiencing slow or inconsistent speeds, could you test local streaming ? I have tried streaming videos using a WD My Book Live network drive and it is running perfectly fast ! I don't know why it is struggling with internet video streaming though.. Weird
 
I noticed this today. iOS6 seems to really struggle with the cell/wifi switch. I did a hard reset and it solved te problem but there definitely is a bug.
 
soya said:
For those who are experiencing slow or inconsistent speeds, could you test local streaming ? I have tried streaming videos using a WD My Book Live network drive and it is running perfectly fast ! I don't know why it is struggling with internet video streaming though.. Weird
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Same here, it's the Internet video streaming part where it gets painfully slow which hasn't been a problem for me before till the iPhone 5. I just hope 6.0.1 would fix this.
 
Rayfire said:
Same here, it's the Internet video streaming part where it gets painfully slow which hasn't been a problem for me before till the iPhone 5. I just hope 6.0.1 would fix this.
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Most likely a bug then since the local WiFi part seems to be working properly..
 
I think it's a wifi 6.0 bug,,, all my http live tv streaming on wifi buffers all the time while LTE and 4G works fine with streaming ,,,eveythjng works fine in 5.1.1 firmware but not on iphone 6.0,,, I hope apple knows about it otherwise we could wait along time for a fix
 
My wifi also struggles to DL photos, like 500kb to 2-3 MB pics, even though my wifi always clocks 32-33 Mbps in speedtests, and yet my lowly 3-5 Mbps hspa+ (4g) connection DL's the same pics faster than my 33 Mbps wifi connection. It's strange. The wifi will load pages faster as long as there aren't any larger files or photos on the page.
 
True,, it's a very weird bug or software error,, they better fix it because 4g should NOT be faster than wifi when it comes to photos and live streaming
 
berniefl36 said:
True,, it's a very weird bug or software error,, they better fix it because 4g should NOT be faster than wifi when it comes to photos and live streaming
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A somewhat relative statement as your Wifi speeds might in fact be slower than 4G speeds if you are in an area with good 4G coverage and you have poor Wifi coverage. Also, how much bandwidth your ISP gives you matters a great deal.
 
Been having issues with wifi and data everyday since I bought the phone during release day. Went to the apple store last week and explained to them that I have multiple iPhones at home without any issues. Also that my phone was setup as a new phone. The only solution was to replace the phone. Ever since I've never had issues what so ever. It's much better now that I don't have to reset any settings or cycle airplane mode.
 
I'm also having the slow WiFi issue on 2 different iPhone 5's that I received last week. I've tried resetting the network settings, connecting to 2.4gHz, 5gHz and so far nothing has helped. I may try doing a hard reset this evening before contacting Apple. My iPad WiFi speeds are fine on iOS6 and the same WiFi network.
 
Today's update of iOS 6.0.1 didn't do anything to fix my wi-fi speeds. Still much, much slower than my 4S, but upload speed remains fine.
 
So Is this problem when watching videos? I get great speedtest speeds on my wifi, but I can not watch a full video without it stuttering or just stopping completely? 4GLTE works great, but I prefer to save my data when sitting at home...
 
kramjam said:
Today's update of iOS 6.0.1 didn't do anything to fix my wi-fi speeds. Still much, much slower than my 4S, but upload speed remains fine.
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Same here. Might really have to make a Genius appointment for this.

wknapp0924 said:
So Is this problem when watching videos? I get great speedtest speeds on my wifi, but I can not watch a full video without it stuttering or just stopping completely? 4GLTE works great, but I prefer to save my data when sitting at home...
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Precisely! I'm trying to save data too but any wifi connections keep on stuttering/buffering when trying to watch a video, this is just madness.
 
Updated to iOS 6.0.1, wifi still painfully slow. Using 2.4 GHz WPA2 AES.
In one spot, with my iPad I can get 18 Mb/s down but with my iPhone I can get no more than .5 Mb/s down.

It's pretty bad.
 
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iOS 6.01 has fixed my wifi issues, no longer does it randomly drop sometimes or slow down, it remains constant and fast all the time, signal strength seems to be improved slightly too or maybe I might just be imagining things but I feel like it improved. I am extremely satisfied with the update.
 
Try a different router. iPhone 5 doesn't play well with older routers. If it doesn't solve the problem bring the router back.
 
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