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

Just ran a speed test on my wifi vs my LTE connection and it stands as follows:

WIFI - DOWNLOAD: 11.09MBPS..UPLOAD:4.01MBPS..PING:15MS
LTE: - DOWNLOAD: 19.07MBPS..UPLAOD:9.15MBPS..PING:79MS

So yup....as you can see either the LTE is :rolleyes: outrageously faster than wifi connection or its simply a bug.
 
30/4 service
Latest AE WPA2

MBA:



iP5:

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None of my mobile devices (iPads, HTC phones, ect) have ever been this fast.
 
datx said:
My experience with the iPhone 5 on my home network has shown me that I'm fine when connected to 2.4ghz but on the 5ghz side of things sometimes it doesn't show a connection or it'll drop the connection while my desktop which is connected to 5ghz remains connected, strong and steady.

No slowing, just unavailable at times. The times I am connected the signal as just as strong as the other devices on my network.

Hope this helps.
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I've had exactly the same experience with my new iPhone 5. I've found wireless N at 5ghz just doesn't work (or is very slow) in may apartment. Forcing my router to 2.4 and not 5 ghz for wireless N has solved my problems. For what it's worth, I was experiencing the same issue with my iPad 3.

It's a known issue for 5ghz to have interference issues. This is what lead wireless A (@ 5 ghz) to never catch on.

I'm going to say this Is an issue with the wireless N and not the new iPhone. The iPhone 5 for the first time supports 5ghz, so it's logical this would creep up now as a new issue.
 
bretm said:
You have 4-5 times the bandwidth on the upload side vs. the download side? Who is your idiot provider?
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My apartment complex has a special ISP that provides internet for large apartments. Our line is spilt between 675 residents. During the middle of the night I see up to 50 Mbps up and 50 Mbps down but during the hours people are awake it falls to 10-20 Mbps.
 
onski9702 said:
My iphone 5 reads below 1 mbps both download and upload using the speedtest app with our 15/5mbps fios, but once i do a restart test it reads the normal speed. Try to restart the test and see what happens..
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Oh, that's weird... that actually just worked for me.

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You can see in the last picture I had 0.38Mb/s....
 
Two new phones - one has issue, one doesn't

I bought two new iPhone 5 phones for my daughters on Friday. One has a WIFI connectivity issue, one doesn't. I have a 4S phone and have no issues anywhere in my house with WIFI. We have been experimenting with WIFI connectivity with the iPhone 5 with the WIFI issue and it definitely does not connect as well as my 4S phone or the other new 5 phone. We took the one phone back to Verizon today and they suggested that some open apps are interfering with the WIFI connectivity. This makes no sense to me. It is good to know that WIFI connectivity is an isolated issue.
 
"small minority"....wtf and whatever that is supposed to mean, its likely still a large number.
 
Dual band Router owners

Try using the 5 Ghz band. That seems to improve the speed as well.
Try it, it worked for me. My 2.4 Ghz connection was ok as well, but the 5 Ghz was much faster.

Mark
 
When I upgraded my 4S to iOS6 I had problems getting decent speeds and/or connectivity to my home WPA2 router. So I have a feeling this is software and not hardware.
 
cmChimera said:
Ok, I've started to agree to this, though I do not think it's hardware related. What speedtest are you using?
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Not using speedtest or anything like it. What happens is that I connect and then get dropped. Then connect again and and get dropped.
 
Try this. Run a test then switch your server to somewhere else. Seemed to restore the speed. Although I can't tell if things like the App Store or Safari is affected by the slow speed.
 
Oppressed said:
Try this. Run a test then switch your server to somewhere else. Seemed to restore the speed. Although I can't tell if things like the App Store or Safari is affected by the slow speed.
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I changed the server and it went from 5 Mbps to over 65 Mbps.
 
This is definitely affecting me.

1.2 download 2.17 upload. ATT Bay Area with comcast high speed internet. It's slow. Was wondering about this yesterday as I was testing the LTE speeds and noticed how slow wifi was...
 
Oppressed said:
Try this. Run a test then switch your server to somewhere else. Seemed to restore the speed. Although I can't tell if things like the App Store or Safari is affected by the slow speed.
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I can most assuredly confirm that the connectivity as a whole is effected, songpop for example, has taken over 5 minutes to download the clips, timed out 4 times, and then FINALLY it loaded them, and it continued it 8 loads in a row, and then it finally popped the cork and ran fine afterwards.
 
Wifi Is fine here

Comcast with a N900 from NetGear there is no problems at all. Also showing some random tests on LTE and over Wifi Connection.
 

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Pianoblack3 said:
Where's my bloody Nokia!...
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Lol...

Didn't Apple have something like this happen with the 4S too?

And now Apple calls this "improvement". If people are having slow and inconsistent Wi-Fi probems, i wouldn't call that an imprvement by any means. Doesn't matter how few devices.

Kind of amazes me wth all this improved testing they do, there are still problems with the iPhone 5. I would of thought by now, they would have 'nailed' it by now... They have plenty of practice on previous phones.

We're not talking about fixes in general, we're only talking about connection ssues.

How hard can it be? Even if its been brocken by an 'update', they just realease a fix immediately.

SparkyGa said:
Comcast with a N900 from NetGear there is no problems at all. Also showing some random tests on LTE and over Wifi Connection.
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I'm Jelious.
 
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(Me too post below)

MBP is getting
8.04 Mbps down
0.56 Mbps up
this is what I expect

both new iPhone 5's I have are getting
3.3 Mbps down
0.55 Mbps up

uploads are good, and consistent, downloads have a lot of variance during the test

:(
 
Wifi slowness

I think it's a problem with IOS6. I am having the same problem with my third generation of the IPAD. It takes a long time to download software and movies. I have the FIOS updated speed>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
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