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Are any of you NOT experiencing jumping wifi?

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austincolby

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Jun 16, 2004
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Earlier today, I asked whether anyone was similarly experiencing what I was- a wifi connection that is constantly (every few minutes) jumping from full bars to one, with the internet stopping, and then 20 seconds later jumping back up to full bars and working again.

Very quickly, a few people confirmed that they were experiencing the same thing (although in their experience, they were NOT experiencing a performance slow-down as well).

New question- are there people that are NOT seeing their wifi randomly swing from full to barely there, and back again, all while sitting in the same place, holding it the same way, etc?

I just received my new iPad yesterday. I'm not normally one to run back to the store for a replacement, but after 'taking it' with an iphone 3g that had/has a clearly very bad antenna stack that has me drop calls constantly, when my wife with the same phone does not, well... I want to err on the side of caution.
 
i've had 0 WiFi issues since getting my iPad back in May, although its a pretty well documented problem from what i understand, hopefully the next update will provide a fix for it.
 
Owned for two months, used regularly on 4 or 5 different wifi networks. Been stable on all of them. Sorry your having problems.

(all networks/routers are prob new within the last 18 months. Is your unit very old?)
 
3.2.1

I'm on the latest- 3.2.1

It's like clockwork- I have full bars, I start loading a page, halfway through, it drops to one bear, hangs for a bit, then pops back up to full bars and finishes loading. This happens every few pages i navigate to...

This is happening on every router I've tried, from my clearspot 4g+ to my airport express (last revision) to my neighbors off-the-shelf net gear router.

It sounds like this is NOT normal, so I'm going to try exchanging at best buy (that's where my wife bought it) tomorrow.

Did anyone every identify a bad wifi batch or anything like that?
 
Zero wifi issues since owning (purchased last week in June), its the most stable I've used on an iDevice...I use a 5ghz network and its perfect. Even went on vacation on hotels fairly terrible wifi and had no drops.
 
While there have been some documented wifi issues, that doesn't sound like one of them. Take it back and exchange it.
 
austincolby said:
I'm on the latest- 3.2.1

It's like clockwork- I have full bars, I start loading a page, halfway through, it drops to one bear, hangs for a bit, then pops back up to full bars and finishes loading. This happens every few pages i navigate to...

This is happening on every router I've tried, from my clearspot 4g+ to my airport express (last revision) to my neighbors off-the-shelf net gear router.

It sounds like this is NOT normal, so I'm going to try exchanging at best buy (that's where my wife bought it) tomorrow.

Did anyone every identify a bad wifi batch or anything like that?
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Mine works fine. It's at 3.2.2 which is the latest version. However, if you update to 3.2.2 you will not be able to jailbreak it, if you ever considered such a thing.

Cheers,
 
Never had a problem. Using both N & G networks at home and public locations. (I have both N&G in my house) The only "issue" is the N network doesn't work as well in some of the corners of my house. But that's not an iPad thing. It's the same with my other devices.
 
I've had no isues at all - and if anyone was going to have issues it would be me as I live in an apartment building where in any given corner of our apartment I can find at least 6 other WiFi networks at any give time of day (there's also an office building next door which doesn't help). But I've had no problems with interference nor of the type as described by the OP.

By posting this though, I've probably jinxed it.
 
Yeah I've had mine since launch and used it on many different wifi networks and I haven't had any issues at all!
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Not one problem with wifi on my GFs iPad. It is used on many wifi networks and performs flawlessly. I cant wait to get one!!!
 
I don't have the jumping issue but I do have an intermittent problem with the iPad refusing to remember, or at least to reconnect to, my network.

It may have something to do with once in awhile being the first device connected after I reboot my router, I am not sure. It seems not to like that scenario on repeat visits for some reason. I don't have that problem with iPhone or iPod touch, and the laptops don't care either. Just the iPad. If it gets a .1 handed out to it at any point, then it goes haywire later and refuses to remember the network info no matter what address it finally receives on any subsequent connections. And, I am never sure what calms it down again.

Sometimes the problem lasts for days no matter what I reboot and no matter what devices I connect before letting the iPad have a go. Pesky brat. It's mildly irritating but at least by now I no longer have to look up my flipping password.

I live in a dead zone so I always have airplane mode on even though I do have the model with 3G option.
 
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