Personal Hotspot cutting in and out

Just upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.3. When I turn on the personal hotspot feature and connect to the phone via Wifi on my laptop (Macbook) and/or my iPad, they start to connect (accept the password) but then the connections cut in and out. On the iPhone the blue bar at the top continues to appear and disappear, as if it is dropping and starting the connection. Neither iPad or Macbook remain connected to the iPhone, despite it saying 2 connections. The MacBook will say in network settings that is connected (breifly) and has an IP, but will be dropped shortly after as the iPhone goes back to starting and stopping the sharing.

Thoughts? Anyone else have this?

iPhone 4, iOS 4, upgrade to 4.3

Posted on Mar 9, 2011 1:13 PM

40 replies

Mar 11, 2011 6:19 PM in response to BGraceTFaith

Seems doing the network reset worked for me. I was getting the cutting in and out too. So far so good.

Mar 14, 2011 4:59 AM in response to Andrew26

hopefully that works out for you. when I do this, its temporary and the original issue comes back. what a pain in the butt man.

Kazafog

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Aug 1, 2011 9:48 PM in response to Brice Unland

I had the same problem on 4.3.3 and found that turning my bluetooth off fixed it. I also have a more consistent connection to my router with the bluetooth off, it may help.

Kazafog

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Oct 20, 2011 2:24 PM in response to Brice Unland

again turning bluetooth off has fixed my problem and some others see here.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1728159&p=-1&#bottom

Kazafog

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Oct 26, 2011 5:45 AM in response to iAmcrazyaboutApple

That's not the way my iphone4 4.3.3 works. See the link below for explanation, but mine definitely does not require an active Internet connection.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1742490

Nov 16, 2011 4:24 PM in response to Brice Unland

Not sure if this was ever resolved, but I had the original issue with iOS5, iphone4 and ipad2. I resolved it by setting a static IP address on the iPad for the Wifi connection. Hope this helps.

Mar 30, 2012 12:16 AM in response to Graham J

it seemed to work for a few mins then it dropped again

d.g.hall

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May 2, 2013 2:59 PM in response to Brice Unland

This is still an issue for me. Quite a pain. You would think Apple might have rectified it after some years have passed?

sacwa

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Oct 3, 2013 6:51 AM in response to Brice Unland

Go to windows device manager > network adapeters > advanced > wireless mode > pick value "g" mode and click ok

Oct 3, 2013 9:36 AM in response to Graham J

Graham, I mant to reply sooner, but adding the DHCP and Static IP values did the trick! Thanks!

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Personal Hotspot cutting in and out