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Reports of Slow and Inconsistent Wi-Fi Connections on Some iPhone 5 Devices

I can notice it.

Yeah. I do believe mine and my wife's new iPhone 5s, which we walked in and got at Verizon on Friday, are affected. It took forrrrrever to download even a few basic apps over wifi. Much longer / slower than my 4 which I tried at the same time. I've be using just 3G to get bearable speeds... I think it's a conspiracy with Apple and the cell providers to get people using more data ;)... But seriously - fix it.
 
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Radeon12345 said:
WiFi is is perfect on my version, iPhone 5 64gb White UK version.

My broadband speed is 100mb down and 10mb up, my router is a Netgear WNDR3700. the iPhone connects using the 5ghz frequency.

Here is my current result on WiFi using WPA2 AES.

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Holy Moly!
 
Seandroid said:
So..... Speedtest.net is showing 0.46MBPS on my iPhone 5, but the actual internet speed seems fine... I didn't actually notice anything until I saw this thread. I think this is just something wrong with Speedtest.net....

Webpages load just as fast as they did before...
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That's not my experience...My 4S is outperforming my iPhone5 in loading web pages.
 
Battlefield Fan said:
I can confirm this. I'm getting roughly 2Mbps down and 50 Mbps up on my iPhone 5. My iPad in the same spot gets 5Mbps up and 45 Mbps up. So it is half the speed of my iPad. I tried this 5 times.

For reference, I was able to obtain 12 Mbps down and 45 Mbps up on my MacBook Pro.
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You have 4-5 times the bandwidth on the upload side vs. the download side? Who is your idiot provider?
 
I strongly suspect it is more of an iOS 6 bug.
Ever since I upgraded my iPhone 4 and iPad 3, I have had no end of trouble doing sync's over Wi-Fi. Resetting the devices and restarting iTunes on my main Mac that hosts them has not helped.
 
Mr. RPG said:
Phil Schiller really meant it when he said "4G LTE is even faster than your Wi-Fi"

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yes, yes it will be, because I don't know of many wifi networks that're running 40mbps....

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I'm one of the unlucky ones that has the issue.

Here are my results...
Speedtest.net
Running Opera, on my macbook pro, in amarillo, tx, running to the lubbock, tx server.
Ping: 43ms
Download: 4.91mbps
Upload: 0.60mbps

iPhone 5 (black, 32GB), on the same wifi network, sitting right beside the macbook pro (plugged into it charging)
Ping: 46ms
Download: 0.16mpbs
Upload: 0.00mbps
(unplugged, no longer charging)
Ping: 45ms
Download: 3.52mpbs
Upload: 0.61mbps

iPhone 5 on Verizon 3G (plugged into macbook pro charging)
Ping: 454ms
Download: 0.32mbps
Upload: 0.30mbps
(unplugged, no longer charging)
Ping:208ms
Download: 0.15mpbs
Upload: 0.33mbps

so, my latency is higher on the 3G network (no 4G network available to test on) but my SPEEDS are faster?!? faster than a 6mbps DSL connection that the laptop on it tests at almost 5mbps?

verifying on second iPhone 5 (white 64GB) in the house...
wifi
Ping: 40ms
Download: 4.41mbps
Upload: 0.07mbps

3G
Ping: 222ms
Download: 0.87mbps
Upload: 0.58mbps


I'd say that's a fair showing that there's potentially something screwy with the wifi...the high result I got on mine acted like it was nice and slow until suddenly it was like a cork popped and the speed shot through the roof and the results came out nicely. I'll be calling apple tomorrow morning, I'm not a complainer and going to demand an immediate replacement, but, I am going to ask that it be noted that 3 days after purchase I've been having troubles with connectivity since the date of purchase, so that if the issue persists I can call in and get it replaced.
 
I think the problem is Speedtest.net

I just did a speedtest on my computer using Speedtest.net and got 12 Mbps (I should be getting over 80 Mbps) and when I tried the Verizon FiOS Speed test I got 79 Mbps. On my iPhone 5 I tried the default settings for the speedtest app (NY/TowerStream server) and got 3 Mbps. I changed the server to NJ/Interserver and got over 65 Mbps on my iPhone 5.

Edit: Definitely not wifi, I just did a speed test using a local server and dowloading a 305 MB .mp4 file on my iPhone. It downloaded at about 45 seconds while speed test says my internet connection is 5 Mbps.
 
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wi-fi problem is due to ios6

The wifi problem is certainly due to IOS6. I'm facing the same problem with my new ipad after updating it to ios6! I just hope they find a fix soon!!!....
 
Seandroid said:
Uh, actually, I think this is a problem with Speedtest not being compatible with iOS 6... because my 4S just gave me this:

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My iPhone 5 gave me this (even though when I tested, it's loading faster than my 4S)

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But my iMac gave me this, and yes, I know, Canadian ISPs suck:

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I think we're overreacting folks...
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You're right. Just tried it on an iPhone 4 and got the same results. Laptop still testing significantly faster.
 
Unfortunately I have the issue. Can connect to my Time Capsule, but can't get anywhere (my Macbook Pro and iPad work fine via the TC). If I "Forget the Network" and re-authenticate, it'll work for a bit, then nothing. I've got a Black, 32GB AT&T model. Will give it a few days for a software fix, then I'll exchange it.
 
lermal said:
Unfortunately I have the issue. Can connect to my Time Capsule, but can't get anywhere (my Macbook Pro and iPad work fine via the TC). If I "Forget the Network" and re-authenticate, it'll work for a bit, then nothing. I've got a Black, 32GB AT&T model. Will give it a few days for a software fix, then I'll exchange it.
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This seems to be an issue with speedtest and NOT iOS or the iPhone.
 
Ah, I'd been wondering why everything was taking so long to download from the app store and why netflix didn't work. I'm connected to an AEBS.
 
I have had the some problem with my iPod touch.

Ever since I updated my iPod touch, I have not been able to keep a consistent wifi connection like I could with the old OS. I think that it must have something to do with iOS 6 because this was never a problem before.
 
I'd like to report that I indeed am having Wifi problems. On Speedtest, the phone will download for a second or two, then freeze up until the duration of the download test is over.
 
Seandroid said:
Uh, actually, I think this is a problem with Speedtest not being compatible with iOS 6... because my 4S just gave me this:

ggR3f.jpg


My iPhone 5 gave me this (even though when I tested, it's loading faster than my 4S)

ssVfO.jpg


But my iMac gave me this, and yes, I know, Canadian ISPs suck:

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I think we're overreacting folks...
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There are many reports of apps outside of speedtest not being able to access the Internet reliably. Speedtest is just an easy way to quantify it

arn
 
arn said:
There are many reports of apps outside of speedtest not being able to access the Internet reliably. Speedtest is just an easy way to quantify it

arn
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You don't think it seems odd that the same results are coming from other iOS devices?
 
cmChimera said:
You don't think it seems odd that the same results are coming from other iOS devices?
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You don't think it's odd that switching to WEP or swapping out hardware can fix it?

I've seen the issue myself. It affects all Internet connectivity from the device.

I think it's complicated though and not one cause.

arn
 
I get to be part of another 1.1%? A very special snowflake indeed.

I've had what I'd consider to be unusually slow wifi d/l's on an all too regularly used home network, but for some reason I wasn't wanting to blame my new phone. I'm wondering if this wasn't the same thing that got my phone so toasty as I moved around the building at work today...repeated attempts to d/l an otherwise quickly d/l'd file (audio podcast)?

Boo.
 
arn said:
There are many reports of apps outside of speedtest not being able to access the Internet reliably. Speedtest is just an easy way to quantify it

arn
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That doesn't make any sense at all, though... I just changed the server on my iPhone 5 and managed to make it hit 5Mb/s. And why is my 4S still clocking significantly slower than my computer?
 
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