Auto Brightness and Wi-Fi

[EDH667]

I have had consistent Wi-Fi signal strength fluctuations from day one of the iPad release.

After reading the Apple knowledge base article I turned off the auto-brightness setting on my iPad. This miraculously has taken care of my problem and the iPad connects at 10,000 kbps consistently, just as rock solid as my laptop speed tests.

 

[stisdal]

Thanks for reminding me of this. I had read this a couple of weeks ago, but had forgotten. I just got a 32W in addition to the 16W I had, and the 32 signal meter jumps around. I haven't lost connection, but the jumping makes me nervous. (note I have never had any wifi issues with the 16W)

I'll let you know if this work around helps......

 

[stisdal]

Cool. 20 minutes and so far the 32 has been rock solid

 

[bed]

I'd been getting less then impressive wifi speeds. After some googling I came across the suggestion of turning off auto-brightness.. So I tried it here at work. Using the free Speedtest X app, with auto-brightness on, I got 2.51Mbps down, which has been about the best I've ever gotten. I turned auto-brightness off - and got 10.58Mbps down. Thats 4x the speed! Thats more like I expected. Apple have a hardware or software bug somewhere here. I'm happy to leave auto-brightness off though - I'm happy. I'm looking forward to trying it at home now.