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Slow wifi in iOS 8?

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bobright

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Jun 29, 2010
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Is it just me or is there lag in Safari page loading? I am even having some pages macrumors for instance just give me a blank white page at times. I was on another forum and the page only loaded halfway. It's been a disaster for me, never had any of these problems prior to updating. Smh
 
Yes, Same here on iPhone 5S and iPad 4. Waiting until work tomorrow to test their Wi-Fi to see if its the same. If it is then iOS 8 bug.
 
I am wondering if the lag has deliberately been introduced to prevent frequent Safari crashing or tabs reloading.

But apart from stuttering keyboard coming up while tapping address bar, Safari feels slightly improved overall. We need to give more time to Apple to iron out few niggles.
 
All apps seem much slower over wifi on both iPhone 5s and iPad Mini. Same apps over LTE are fine. I thought my wifi was acting up, but both computers in the house are fine. My wife's iPhone which hasn't been upgraded to iOS 8 is also fine. Also noticed when in Safari on wifi the spinning activity icon next to the wifi icon rarely if ever goes away. Normally it's only there during page loads.
 
wifi fine on the 5, & has been on every beta & every os since i owned the phone on launch day..getting near 60mbps on 2.4ghz & 95mbps on 5ghz, no drops ever. idk how people have all these random problems..

router is a tplink tl-wdr4900 v1.3 with dd-wrt
 
OHCasper said:
All apps seem much slower over wifi on both iPhone 5s and iPad Mini. Same apps over LTE are fine. I thought my wifi was acting up, but both computers in the house are fine. My wife's iPhone which hasn't been upgraded to iOS 8 is also fine. Also noticed when in Safari on wifi the spinning activity icon next to the wifi icon rarely if ever goes away. Normally it's only there during page loads.
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Exactly the issue I am currently having.
Any help? Tell me, please, if you find a solution!
 
I noticed this too I thought my router www bugged. my router puts out wireless n and g so I switched over to g and its working again.. ipad air
 
OHCasper said:
All apps seem much slower over wifi on both iPhone 5s and iPad Mini. Same apps over LTE are fine. I thought my wifi was acting up, but both computers in the house are fine. My wife's iPhone which hasn't been upgraded to iOS 8 is also fine. Also noticed when in Safari on wifi the spinning activity icon next to the wifi icon rarely if ever goes away. Normally it's only there during page loads.
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Exactly the same thing I am experiencing too. Tried resetting network settings without helping, neither did reset all or even a full reset without restoring from backup. Argh!

EDIT: Tried three difference WiFi networks now, same issue on all three.
 
I've been banging my head trying to figure out what the issue is. As a dev, I've had the beta for a while. The GM was terrible on WiFi; so bad, I had to use LTE if I wanted any connection at all. When I installed the public release today (and set up as a new iPhone), I had the same problem.

I used OS X's WiFi diagnostics to select a better channel for my wireless network, and that fixed it. So, until I read this thread, I thought that one of my neighbors (I live in an apartment) got a new wireless router that was screwing with my channels.

I'll continue to test it out and see if the slow downs come back.
 
I was going to post Safari is....slower but I think macrumours is being hammered at the moment. Tried some other sites and theyre fine
 
its the wifi general not only safari. and 5ghz is unstable, been waiting for a 8.0.1 for a week ;)
 
I see I'm not the only one and yeah it isn't specific to macrumors for me.

Edit: this is a bad safari problem I just lost the ability to even connect online nothing but a blank page and a stuck loading bar, yet Tweetbot and other apps worked completely fine. I had to reboot my device in order for it to work.
 
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I'm having problems with a retina iPad mini on a 5ghz wifi network. When I switch to 2.4ghz it works.

When on the 5ghz it works for a short period then gives up and lags. A reset fixes it again for a few minutes but it always comes back.
 
Dubberton said:
yes much slower. maybe some forced obsolescence from Apple
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if that were true then why are no news/rumour sites picking up on this? as there really is no need for safari to slow down.

And if its a bug why wasn't it picked up in beta testing? what do they do in beta testing :rolleyes:
 
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