Q: Anyone still having IOS 6 wifi issues?

It might help if you read who is posting and what they are posting and who you are replying to.

Sounds like you aren't interesting in solving your problem (if you even have one).

No more help from me in this loser thread.

And just how, JimHdk, do you suggest that I get the make/model/version, how configured information from airports, theatres, cafes and othe public wifi hotspots and networks which I use for work and pleasure when out and about?

Whether the problem is wifi or not I have no idea, I'm not a techie and most of the technicalities of this thread are way above me.  Apple havea deserved reputation for "plug and play" type simplicity and that repuation is rapidly collapsing in tatters.

But I bought my iPad [3] to be a useable device when away from home and to find that it is now unable to connect at many previously perfect sites is more than a nuisance.

It ill behoves Apple to have remained silent on the matter as it is clearly a problem for many of us.

What is one of the first rules of Disaster Recovery?

Be honest with your customers - honest, that is, without causing yourself further damage.  Admit to a problem and let people know how you are to correct it or let them know how that can correct it for themselves.

iBozz, my post is directed to ChrisE22 and refers only to the specific problem that he is having.

This is the problem with threads like this, no one pays any attention to whom posts are directed to (or even their content apparently). No one gets any help anymore. It's just turned into a debate/***** thread.

Clemon85, I'm glad that your problem has been solved. Note that what you experienced is not a WiFi problem per se but, rather, an authentication problem. The schemes for doing Network access authentication are rather AdHoc and can run aground.

In which case I apologise, but there does seem to have developed a certain "I'm alright, Jack" tone from at least one poster and I am increasingly frustrated that Apple haven't come out and either admitted the error or given an explanation as to what the non-techie, travelling public wifi user can do to get a resolution.

Hi Jim,

I appreciate the help, but in this case, my older router at home that fails hasn't had a firmware update for 3 years - nothing available.  My only option would be to replace it.  I'm fortunate in having two routers at home - I'll just have to run upstairs for a wifi connection until we get a fix!

Routers at work are new (< 4 months), but I don't know the make/model and wouldn't be in a position to get them to downgrade, since many of these newer firmware releases include security patches that we couldn't wind back without risking unwanted network intrusions.

As for other public access points, not much chance here.

The use of a new, not-universally supported protocol extension would explain the variablilty that people are seeing.  Let's see if Apple can come up with a 'graceful fallback' recovery route when an older router is detected.

Thanks again for trying to keep it constructive and suggesting workarounds.

I would love to say something rude but I am polite!

Let's face it, if everything is fine one day and the next day, having upgraded to ios 6 your igadget is the only one that still refuses to connect.... where should the blame lie?

Especially when other peoples igadgets ie. ipad 3s upgraded to ios 6 are doing exactly the same thing....?

Makes me want to spit! 

Spit!

sorry, just had to do that to get the taste of apple sanctimonious answers out of my mouth.

I have tried all the answers, forget networks, factory resets, on and off routers etc etc but to no avail.

As the ICT manager of a primary school that relies on communication wirelessly of about 25 ipads I am extremely peeved to say the least.

The fault is apples (notice lower case a) as it should be working on an existant system rather than relying on several thousand (million?) routers to have to be changed.

that's my tuppence worth

love and peace

Please note that NONE of the answers on this forum are from Apple. They are ALL from other users like yourself.

Well this gets stranger...

Last weekend I was having serious connection issues on my IOS 6 iPad 2 in a hotel. The saving grace was that my son's iPad 1 can't be upgraded so was working fine on IOS 5.

Today I went to McDonald's and to keep an eye on the football scores I took along my IOS 6 iPad 2. Chrome, the App Store, iTunes and Game Center would not connect. Safari would albeit very slowly. The guy next to me was watching ESPN Sports Center with no issues and at a decent speed also through the same wi-fi network on a Droid device.

C'mon Apple time to own up to the issues and fix it before someone rightfully starts a class action.

We are dumping the Blackberrys at work and I was lock-in for an iPhone, I'm not so sure now.

1293,

You wrote
"He reinstalled ios 6 AND reinstalled the firmware.  I brought it home and restored it from my backup.  So far everything seems to be working

If it's not too much trouble could you look and see the level he installed?

I'd like to compare and see if it is different to mine

I'm iOS 6  10A403

I fixed it by changing the router security, my iPhone 5 connected immediatly.

How pathetic. I upgraded my iPad Gen 2 to iOS 6 and, since my WiFi SSID isn't broadcasted, I have to Manually configure my Network WiFi settings. However, when I do, the network isn't recognized and I get a "Cannot Join the "XXXXXX" Network" error. I've reset the Network Settings, powered off and on the iPad, reset all settings through iTunes, toggled Airplane mode on and off and NOTHING!!!

One of the most basic operations - not just a feature! - of a non 3G iPad is WiFi why hasn't Apple responded with a resolution by now?!?!

Please, PLEASE get this fixed!!!

If you think that your problem is related to not broadcasting an SSID have you tried changing your router to broadcast the SSID. Note that not broadcasting an SSID does not provide any real security. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless- ssids.aspx

I'm cross-posting from a different Apple Forum, but this may be of help to some users...

Summary:  My network is now stable with all my IOS6 devices including the iPad, iPhone as well as my Apple TV and PC running with no network failures for about 1 hour (im streaming on the Apple TV and running network apps and browser on both the iPhone and iPad and streaming video from the PC.

The 'fix' I have applied is to disallow DHCP assignment of IP addresses to the Ipad2 and assigned it a static IP from the router instead.  See discussion of the issue below.

This temporary fix seems to be working - until such time as Apple engineers provide a patch for what is very evidently a major problem given the number of pages being dedicated to wi-fi failures with devices running IOS6.

I dedicated about 8 hours trying to fix the wi-fi drops on my network.  I have 3 different Apple devices, an iPhone 4, Ipad 2 and Apple TV on the same network with a Windows 7 PC.  Following the upgrade to IOS6, my network connection started to drop, with the logs on my router not really showing anything of interest.  I isolated all of the devices individually and found the network failures related to the Ipad 2 (wi-fi and 3G model).

My wi-fi is configured through a Netgear N900 Dual Band WNDR4500 with a Rogers SMCD3GN Cable Modem (wi-fi is not turned on on the Rogers Cable Modem).  I also tried using my spare D-Link DIR-655 with the same results as part of isolation testing (wi-fi would simply fail when connecting the iPad).

All of my other devices ran rock solid - including the Apple TV which streams for an hour + without any issues. No problems with the iPhone either on IOS6.

When testing the iPad I finally did log an error - WLAN access rejected from the iPad2 (see log clip below from the Netgear router).  Please note I have blanked out my MAC addresses.     

[Internet disconnected] Sunday, Sep 30,2012 10:22:37

[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address **:**:***.**:**:ED, Sunday, Sep 30,2012 10:18:43

[WLAN access rejected: incorrect security] from MAC **:**:**:**:**:ED, Sunday, Sep 30,2012 10:18:10

I had tried all of the suggested fixes for this problem in this thread and the discussion thread on wi-fi including:

1.  Changing wi-fi router (no success)

2.  Activating IPV6 (no success)

3.  De-activating WMA (no success)

4.  Turning off auto-channel switching on the wireless (no success)

5.  Resetting network on iPad (settings-general-reset-reset network settings) (no success)

6.  Changing iPad wi-fi HTTP Proxy to Auto (no success)

7.  Upadting Router firmware (no success)

8.  Removing network security (temporarily for testing only) (no success)

9.  Turning off DHCP assignment for the iPad from the router and assign it a static IP (SUCCESSFUL)

My current configuration:  IPV6 is off, Auto Channel switching off (picked a channel and assigned), WMA is on, DHCP assignment for the Ipad2 is configured to one static IP address.  This last setting is however, the only one that made any difference.

Not sure if this will help others, but I hope it can save you some time in trying to find a temporary solution to this problem.