This is starting to bug me! If I wake my iPad from sleep, it doesn't automatically connect to my first-gen dual-band Time Capsule anymore. I have to keep going into Settings, and then touching my protected network which is showing there, and then it connects. So obviously it remembers the network and WPA2 password, but it's not auto-connecting. It's really annoying!
Anyone else experiencing this? I've reset network settings, and even reset the whole device a couple of times, and it still misbehaves.
*EDIT*
It's doing it on 2 iPads. I suspect there's some wifi glitches with these devices. Shame, really. 😟
First of all, I would try them both on another wi-fi network to eliminate an issue with yours.
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I have also been experiencing this issue. WiFi just drops and sometimes doesn't reconnect. You have to go into settings and either turn WiFi off and then back on, or join the network again.
Rather annoying. I hope this is a software issue and not hardware.
I'd like to clarify. I don't drop connections while using the iPad. I lose the connection while the iPad is asleep and then i have to pick the network from the wifi menu again, each time i wake the system, even after just 30 seconds of putting the ipad to sleep.
Right. Well I've played with it some more and have found that turning off the ipad fully and turning it back on, it connects instantly to my networking. But if i put it to sleep and wake it up 30 seconds later, it doesn't auto-connect to the wifi anymore.
WiFi connection drops all of a sudden, shutting down and powering up again sometimes solves it sometimes it doesn't. It asks a 1000 times for my WEP password where it should have remembered it.
Doesn't matter where I am close to the router or not. I do not have the same problem with my iPhone it connects and the WiFi is constant.
I checked the modem for new firmware but there wasn't any. Don't know what else to do.
In regards to the Wi-Fi connection issue, have you seen the article at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3304 in which Apple detail how to fix the problem?
Yes. Doesn't help me. I'm not using a third party router, and both networks are set up with th same passwords and different SSIDs. In fact, I didn't think it was possible to have the same SSID. Still no joy. 😟
Spoke to Applecare support today, and they said they'd had quite a few wifi-related calls, and they were "aware of the situation." So hopefully this will get resolved ASAP.
Same here. iPad doesn't disconnect from previous network and doesn't notify if new networks are found. Irritating. I've tried turning off/on the setting for it, reboots, hard reset, nothing works. On the flip side once I manually tell it to connect to the network I want it seems to work fine. No dropped signal.