lol I think the iPhone simply has the more dire problem. I wish they could fix it all and be done with it.
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Is apple EVER going to release a fix for the wifi problem????
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lol I think the iPhone simply has the more dire problem. I wish they could fix it all and be done with it.
Mine works fine everywhere I use it, I feel for you there's nothing worse than dropped connections.
I picked up my WiFi iPad yesterday. One time the network dropped. After turning it off and then back on, re-entering the password, everything was fine. This morning everthing was still good. I have a FIOS router and they seem to be the one most people have problems with. If it continues I'll change the encryption and channel, or get an Airport Express or extreme. I spoke with an Apple employee when I picked up the iPad regarding the WiFi issue and she said a firmware upgrade will be coming. I'm not really sure what I will do since Verizon has already said a new "N" router will be out sometime this summer.
My problems are more frequent with the Overdrive, I will agree with you on this. But at least twice a day, on my home network, I will either lose my connection altogether or get the pop-up error that my network key is wrong. I can either reenter the key or just go to settings and connect to my home network again. Extremely annoying.
I guess I have what? A one year warranty to take it in to Apple? Might just do that, but am frustrated that I'd have to set my new iPad up all over again. Or would just plugging it in and syncing it bring everything back the way I had the first one?
Had wifi issues with my fios actiontec, then I bought a cheap buffalo router and haven't had any issues. Defintiely try different access points. Funny thing is that I have less issues with my 64gb 3g vs my 32gb wifi ipad with the actiontec router.
Just a thought guys. I have one of the new generation netgear routers which I got from my dsl provider. It's terrible, some devices won't connect to it, period. The iPad seems to work mostly fine with it, however I do live in a big apartment building with a lot of nearby wifi spots. One thing I noticed is out of the box, the router was configured to automatically choose the best channel. Everytime it changes channel I would get the pop up saying "connecting". I've now put it on a fixed channel and everything has been just fine.
Tried that... Didn't help... Might in some cases where it's an interference issue, but didn't help me...
Yes, this is really bad behaviour from Apple. They're a big company and surely they have enough software engineers to fix the WiFi on the iPad and still have resources left over to simultaneously work on any iPhone issues. They're unlikely to be the same developers anyhow, the iPad issue is somewhere in the wifi stack and the iPhone issue (I assume people are talking about the antenna issue) is somewhere in the cellphone radio stack (if it is genuinely fixable by software).
I've pretty much convinced myself that the issue with iPad wifi is software because when mine stops working I used to do a renew-DHCP-lease as the quickest way to get it working again so I always thought that the iPad was losing connection with my router but I've now discovered that this isn't the case at all, IP connectivity with my router remains intact but somehow higher level stuff (web browsing, AppStore etc) all lock up. I'm wondering if it's the ability to communicate with the DNS server that stops working.
The reason I know that IP connectivity remains is that now what I do when I get a WiFi lockup is go and mount one of my NTFS network shares onto the iPad, which I address by IP number. All I do is mount the share, I don't bother to access any files, I just immediately go back to my browser and the simple process of doing the network mount seems to somehow unblock whatever had got gummed up in the network stack and it all works again (until it locks up again 10 minutes later).
Just fix it Apple!!! Oh, and since Apple officially admitted that there is an issue over a month ago, I really don't see anything at all wrong with the title of this thread. I'm completely in support of the OP here.
- Julian
I've pretty much convinced myself that the issue with iPad wifi is software because when mine stops working I used to do a renew-DHCP-lease as the quickest way to get it working again so I always thought that the iPad was losing connection with my router but I've now discovered that this isn't the case at all, IP connectivity with my router remains intact but somehow higher level stuff (web browsing, AppStore etc) all lock up. I'm wondering if it's the ability to communicate with the DNS server that stops working.
The reason I know that IP connectivity remains is that now what I do when I get a WiFi lockup is go and mount one of my NTFS network shares onto the iPad, which I address by IP number. All I do is mount the share, I don't bother to access any files, I just immediately go back to my browser and the simple process of doing the network mount seems to somehow unblock whatever had got gummed up in the network stack and it all works again (until it locks up again 10 minutes later).
Just fix it Apple!!! Oh, and since Apple officially admitted that there is an issue over a month ago, I really don't see anything at all wrong with the title of this thread. I'm completely in support of the OP here.
- Julian