Wifi constant disconnecting on Ipad?

First of all - have you got the latest iPad firmware update? Should be 3.2.2. If not, upgrade to it.

If that is OK - have you tried a full reboot? Hold down the power and home key. Then, when the 'slide to turn off' screen apears, keep holding the buttons down. After a while the screen will go black, followed by a full reboot.

Let me know if that works. If not there's a few other things to try.

Hmm. Interesting.

Have you tried a restore, and, failing that, setting up the iPad as a 'new' iPad (you can still restore a backup after doing that, so you don't actually lose anything).

If that doesn't work, you might be in for a trip to the Apple store, I'm afraid...

Turn off QoS (Quality of service) on the wireless router, in some routers it is called WMM (Wireless Multi Media).

Try to switched the router to only 'g' instead of 'b/g'.

Please let us know if it helped and don't forget to mark the topic as answerd and solved (if so), that helps others when looking for an answer.

enjoy your magic machine

Same problem with two iPads in my house.
Problem is intermittent and sometimes the WiFi key is lost.
Other devices not having the problem.

I'm having the same problems. iPad disconnects after about a minute and continues to do so despite power cycle, wifi on/off, network reset. None of my other devices have wifi issues. It's finally been working for the last 10 minutes after I addeded my network by "other" and manually entered the name. If it happens again, going back to Apple.

Same problem here. For the first 2 months the wifi worked flawlessly on the ipad.This week the problem started every time the iPad goes to sleep, the wireless connection is lost. Going into the network connection and checking my wireless connection fixes the connection until the next time the iPad goes to sleep or is turned off. Each time, the network is not checked, and rechecking connects to the wireless.
MacBook has no problem at all.
Since this just started happening, I suspect an software upgrade has introduced the problem, however I have not seen evidence of an upgrade.
Has anyone called Apple and got an official response?

I have the base iPad 16gb Wi-Fi model and it was connecting to wifi fine. A few days ago I had to get a new modem/router. I bought a netgear dual band model (G and N) and used wireless "N" on my my two MacBooks and my iPad.

Two days ago I started getting the "Safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding." error on the iPad along with the schizophrenic signal strength bars going from three, to one, to two, to disappearing totally, to whatever, and Safari not opening pages and sometimes crashing, and when it would connect running slower than molasses.

My laptops worked fine, seeing both G and N and working equally well regardless of which I chose.

I did all the jumping thru hoops I have read on this and various forums and that Apple suggested back in April with naming each band on the router differently but with same security settings, renewing lease on Safari, reseting iPad, resetting network settings, turning auto connect off, etc., etc., etc, none of it worked.

So I started to wonder . . . does the iPad even work with "N" . . . the Apple site says "yes", but I wondered . . . what happens if I have the iPad ignore "N" and connect only with "G".

Guess what . . . that fixed the problem.

I went into Settings > WiFi > and told it to "Forget this Network" for the "N" band and then selected the "G" band.

Problems gone.

If you're experiencing the connection problems I'd bet dollars to doughnuts you're trying to use wireless "N". Have it ignore that band and use "G".

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How did you restrict the iPad to G?

I believe Kobiashi is referring to a dual-band router. There's no option on the iPad to select wireless g only. Ever since I entered my SSID manually, haven't had any connectivity issues. It's certainly odd behavior.

Some of the newer routers allow you to assign separate SSIDs for the G and N bands and to not use the B band. That options is usually accessed via the router setup using a webpage.

I have been having a very similar problem. I will connect to my network, and it will shows that everything is fine, and then try and go onto safari, the app store, or some other internet based app, and it will not load! I am very frustrated and have tried all of the things that this discussion mentions, yet I am still having the problem. If I am unable to find what the problem is and fix it then I will take it to the apple store and ask them to check it out.

Problem fixed!!
Hooked iPad up to my windows box and iTunes, did the software upgrade to 3.2.2, issue is gone.
Wifi stays connected after sleep sleep mode or shutdown automatically.

I had the same problem i fixed it by changing on the router from wep to wpa