iPad wifi connection drops - have tried evereything - any other suggestions

If it helps the discussion here, I have two routers on my network (I have Verizon fios) - one is the Verizon fios router secured by wpa2 and the other is my wireless for my tmobile VoIP phone service secured with wep.

The wep connection is higher priority in my list of wireless connections because the signal was a little stronger and I remembered the pass phrase, so I connected to that first. After reading that wpa2 would actually allow me to get a faster wireless connection I switched the fios router to wpa2 encryption and started using that as my primary iPad wireless connection.

This is when my connectivity problems started. The wep connection was always stable and never dropped. Now with wpa2 I'm frequently dropping. Not sure if it is the encryption method or if it is because my wpa2 network is a lower priority network than my wep network. To test this I have "forgotten" my wep network. I will report back on the results of my "experiment".

I had problem surfing at my in laws place using aztech modem/router, after about 10mins, my browser "safari can't open". I tried changing settings but still the same. Every time I need to go to wifi settings to renew the lease and I could surf again.

I decided to try another router 2wire 5012nv and until now it's stable and I could browse without having to go settings to renew lease. So far so gd. My problem probably lies in the wireless router.

I have the same issue with dropping wifi on my home router and have tried most if not all of the suggested solutions with no luck. I do not have any connectivity problems with any other device including my iPod. This is definitely a flaw in the ipad2 and should be addressed by Apple. Would not recommend anyone purchase an ipad2 until this issue is resolved. It is extremely frustrating.

I have the exact same problem and have tried with 2 different routers: Motorola router and Apple Capsule.

None of the other iPhone devices or Mac/PC have the same problem.

It is a problem with the iPad - I have read the thread and have not found a solution or something I haven't tried yet to fix the problem.

I have 20+ ipads all configured the same with the same settings and same applications loaded. Only this 1 unit was having the problem of dropping the wifi connection. I could make the problem occur by allowing the unit to autolock and then waiting about an additional 30 seconds. Then when I unlocked it the wifi connection would be gone. If I would wait about another additional minute the wifi would come back on its own. There were other times that it would drop as well that did not involve the autolock. Since it was a brand new unit, it was under warranty. I backed it up and sent it in for repairs. The repair depot reported that they could not find any problems with the unit. I restored my backup of the unit and immeadiatly had the problem again. I sent it in for repairs a second time with he same result. What I did to fix the problem was to backup one of the working ipads, then fully erase the problem ipad and then restored the backup of the working ipad to the ipad that was not working. After doing this the problem appears to have gone away. So even though both the working and the problem ipad were configured identically and had the same apps installed there appears to be some sort of software issue. My suggestion to anyone who is having this problem would be to backup your ipad and then wipe it out (under settings do the reset and erase everything). Then set it up as a new ipad (do not restore you backup) and see if you wifi problem goes away. If the problem goes away then there appears to be something corrupted on the ipads configuration and restoring the backup will probably make the problem return. If the problem does not go away you can always restore you back and continue to look for another solution.

Well my solution I suggested earlier only worked for about a day and then I was back to the same problem. I believe that I have found a the solution in my case. Apparently when you connect an ipad2 via wifi or bring it out of sleep mode with a wifi connection the ipad tries to connect to www.apple.com. At our work location we are blocking the ipad's access to the internet, they can only use our local intranet. blocking access to www.apple.com caused the ipads to sit for a long time after coming out of sleep mode before you could start using the wifi to connect to anything else. Apparently the connection to www.apple.com had to time out before you could do anything else with the wifi. by changing our firewall rule to allow the ipad's access to www.apple.com , the wifi starts working right away when it comes out of sleep mode. I realize that this issue I was experiencing is not related to the issues that everyone else in this discussion is having, but I did want to post this information on the odd chance that someone else was in the same situation as me, that they could maybe find it.

Just a quick note, after many irritating attemps to solve the issue, a randome genious posted a solution that has worked flawlessly for me. Basically, it has to do with your wireless router and a function called WMM (WiFi Multimedia). Simply disable this option and believe it or not, even the devices that it is supposed to help will work better. I have an iPad, iPhone 4 and a iPhone 3G and they have yet to fail since I made this change to my WAP.

Hello everyone, if your router has upnp turn it off I as having same issue and turned it off. I now have no dropped connections with ipad2.

Not at all, in fact I still have that ipad and its running iOS10 now (I use it as an art-specific tablet, and have two others I use for other stuff.