Intermittent Wifi issues with iPad 2 and WiFi

Guys, last night we had huge voltage fluctuation and some wires in building caught fire. I lost my mtnl router beetle 450 TC, in that fluctuation! Well, blessing in disguise....I bought Dlink N 300 router today and guess what...it's solved my intermittent disconnection issue :)

I FIXED my problem by disabling N from the router

My ipad2 has fallen victim to ios 5.1 wifi issue. Before my ipad2 worked perfectly on my unchanged wifi for a year. Now it refuses to connect at the password. I tried it after changing network password, tried all other router settings after ipad full reset. No joy. Sometimes it can see wifi but refuses to connect otherwise it can't see wifi even when placed next to router. All other devices connect without issue, only ipad2 fails.

I wouldn't mind if I could roll back the ios to one that works. I don't care if its not supported - at least I could enjoy using my ipad2 as it was before. Shame on Apple for letting this issue go on this long. They could at least provide a choice of alternative wifi software driver or patches to let users try to fix the issue. Why should we buy a new ipad3 when I expect that will fail to connect to my wifi in after the next ios update.

There is only one solution to this problem, sell your iDevice and get an Android device. I've already replaced my iPhone with a Galaxy Note and am VERY pleased and am going to do so with my iPad 2 as soon as possible.

For any fanbois who think I'm being a jerk, feel free to buy my iPad 2, it works perfectly according to Apple, pay no attention to the lack of WiFi, that's perfectly normal and must be my router, surge protector, gremlins living in my walls or anything other than the fact that it started immediately after I upgraded the iOS. So if you wanna buy it, I'm sure as an Apple fan you'll be able to sprinkle magical unicorn dust over it and make it work, for me, I'd rather just have a product that works without "magic" requirements. I don't live at Hogwarts I'm afraid.

Any takers?

Dude, I have a Note for 9 months now and am really happy with it...although, once I installed ICS, all the zip is gone, phone is a lot slower now. So android suffers from software updates too.

I have been using an iPad for long time, had wifi problems initially but got a dlink router and no problems since then. I love my iPad and it's only foolish to even compare it with any android device, including Note.

I upgraded my Note to ICS the day it came out without a single problem, while I don't notice any speed increase, I also don't notice it being any slower either. I've heard complaints from people saying their devices have gotten slower or their battery life isn't as good, then I have also heard the exact opposite. Frankly I think both camps are imagining things.

Yeah, I can understand that problems do arise, but not to the degree of something like this with the iPad. This is one of tens of thousands of similar threads about this problem online, which means that it's effecting probably millions of iPad owners. Yet have we heard a single peep out of Apple about them doing a darned thing about the problem? Nope. They even delete messages that hint at the possibility that the problem lies soely with their iOS and not with anything the user has done. (They did it to me yesterday, that's why I know this).

If your iPad started working when you bought a new router, well first of all I'd be ****** upset that you had to buy a new router just to get your iPad to work. I'm sitting here with over a dozen devices within arms reach that are on WiFi in my house that are working 100% properly and yet, I update the iPad to 5.1.1 and WHAM, it stops recognizing my WiFi, does that make it my router's fault? I don't think so. I update the firmware and software on my machines all the time and NEVER lose my WiFi because of it. That means the problem lies squarely with Apple and nobody else. I should not have to replace my router, which is working perfectly, because Apple doesn't know how to code properly and I have no intention of doing so, that's insulting and absurd.

As for resetting my router, my router is down in the basement and I'm currently unable to walk, so I can't get down there to reset it. It would mean having someone come over to go down in my basement and unplug a wire and plug it back in just because Apple can't do their job properly. That's a load of kaka and I refuse to do it. This is 100% Apple's fault and if they refuse to take care of it, I have NO problem checking out that sweet new Sony S Android tablet, it looks quite nice. And hey, USB port, SD card slot AND FLASH SUPPORT! WEEEE!!!

I am going to share something here and not sure what you guys think of this but I had the iPad 1 and the first of the iPad 2s. Never had a single issues, even after updating the iOS. Then it feel out of my hands and the case and hit the ground and cracked it. Apple replaced it for me. That is when the wifi issues happened. I could NOT stay online. I tried everythign, all of the suggestions and NOTHING worked. Then another accident. My daughter was using it and handed it to me, without me known and I was closeing the car door and it got caught in the middle. (the glass shattered but the case wasn't even bent.) Took it to Apple and paid for a replacement (and got the Apple care LOL) Well guess what guys... NOT A SINGLE ISSUE WITH THE WIFI.

I think the problem is not the iOS but the hardware. Maybe there are some bad iPad out there that were made at the same time or with the same wifi modem.

But I can tell you, that this new iPad 2 (I thought it was a refurb but nope it is new) not a single wifi issue.

Just saying....

Doesn't make sense for many people though. For the most part what people are complaining about is that we've upgraded to 5.1.1 and as soon as we did so, the WiFi issues began. If it were a hardware issue it'd exist no matter what we did. This is an iOS problem to be certain. My WiFi worked just fine until I upgraded.

But again, here is the problem. 3 iPad 2s all upgraded to 5.1.1. Two worked fine with no issues, one didn't. Going by your logic, if any iPads are upgraded to 5.1.1 then ALL iPads would be bad. It has to be a combo of some hardware defect that comes up after the upgrade. I have worked in computers since 1990 and it points a hardware issues in SOME of the iPads.

If only it was that simple but no, it could be a matter of this new iOS not liking specific routers and causing this problem, which would once again be only the iOS. If you're saying you had 3 iPad 2's and upgraded them and used them all with the same router and 2 worked and one didn't I'd wonder, why do you have 3 iPad 2's first of all, but if that is the case it might lend some credence to your theory. However, if that's the case the problem is still 100% in Apple's court and their fault and not the fault of anyone's routers and there's nothing anyone can or should have to do to solve the problem. Apple should issue RMA's to anyone who is having this problem and replace the devices or offer full retail refunds for the devices, end of story. If they can't manage to produce working products then the users should not have to be ripped off for it. As far as I'm concerned this is blatent theft pure and simple. I paid for a product that was advertised to do specific things and it does not do them. Every law in the land would support the fact that this is not legal. It's false advertising at the very least, bait and switch and theft at the worst.

What I want to know, real simple question here, is, what is Apple going to do about this problem? We have hundreds of thousands of people complaining about this issue (Do a Google search, this thread is only one of thousands about this problem) and not once, not ONE SINGLE TIME has Apple said that they even acknowledge there is a problem and they're working on it. This is typical Apple mentality. Close your eyes, plug your ears and go nanananana until the problem goes away. It's wrong, very wrong.

Now I fully expect, like they've done before so often, that instead of acknowledging the problem, Apple will remove this message like they've removed so many others that call them on the carpet for their criminal activities and they'll try to silence their detractors because that's how they roll.

So I stand by what I said, I'm saving up to get a Sony S Tablet and I'm throwing this piece of garbage Apple brick on eBay and passing the problem along to some Apple fanboi who thinks Apple's kaka doesn't stink. There are plenty of those kinds of people, who'll buy an Apple because it's a status symbol rather than because it's quality equipment.

If only it was that simple but no, it could be a matter of this new iOS not liking specific routers and causing this problem, which would once again be only the iOS. If you're saying you had 3 iPad 2's and upgraded them and used them all with the same router and 2 worked and one didn't I'd wonder, why do you have 3 iPad 2's first of all, but if that is the case it might lend some credence to your theory.

Well, you didn't read what I said from your comment. YES... the router is the same on all 3 iPads... And as I said, and I will repeat this again, I had one of the first iPad 2s out. It was dropped and cracked. I took it to my Apple store, where they replaced it for free! The replacement iPad had serious issues with the wifi. At home, on my router, it could never stay connected. But not only here. Many places, where I had used the first iPad with no issues, NOW I was having issues all over the place. So, that told me, this is not router problem. But a hardware issue with the iPad's wifi modem. My daughter who was using the iPad to play games in the car, was trying to hand me the ipad, behind my back ,as I was closing the car door and it got crushed. I ended up paying $250 for a replacement, and got the extended warranty on the new one. #3 which has had NONE of the problems I was having with the 2nd iPad. So, to say this once again, this is not a router issues but a HARDWARE issue... as all 3 of the ipad 2s that I had, were all upgraded to 5.1.1 and 2 worked perfect and one didn't. PLEASE NEXT TIME BEFORE YOU RESPOND, READ WHAT I POST!

What you said is in multiple posts, I didn't bother to go back to check and see that it was the same person who posted the previous comment. I just guessed it was a new poster with a different comment. You're quite right, I wasn't paying careful attention, but you'll have to excuse me, I'm posting from a hospital, under heavy medication with several open wounds and not in the best mental frame of mind at the moment.

In any case, it doesn't change the fact that this is all on Apple, no matter how you slice it, the problem is Apple's fault and not the fault of anything else. It's up to them to rectify it and they won't. Why anyone would remain so blindly loyal to a company that has such blatent disregard for them boggles my mind. I'm glad you were able to afford to replace your iPad, but if you broke it through your own neglegance, that's not exactly relevant to this issue. We're talking purely about the dropping WiFi problem here and 99.9% of the complaints from people are identical. We upgraded to 5.1.1 and wham, the WiFi issue started. Prior to the upgrade we had no problems. It isn't just me, like I said, it's tens if not hundreds of thousands of iOS device users who are having this problem. Since the problem occurs across devices (iPad/iPhone) I find it hard to accept that it's a hardware problem. If it IS a hardware problem then it's a hardware problem that's been generated by the latest iOS update, so that still kind of makes it a software problem. My iPad worked just fine for almost a year, until I did the update, as did my iPhone. WiFi worked just fine. Then all of the sudden it didn't. I fail to see how this can be hardware related. Your isolated incident perhaps is, but we're talking about so many people around the globe who have this problem only after the 5.1.1 update that I'm afraid your theory falls flat.

On a funnier note, a UK Judge has ordered Apple to run Samsung ads on their website, now that's funny!

.i had the same problem with both my ipad and my iphone4 and 4s.. i updated them and the things didnt want to connect or would connect but randomly drop the signal all together or flat out refuse to connect to a router that i knew worked with the devices prior to the ios update and in fact this happened to me starting with upgrading from 4.0 right up to current release and you know how i fixed it? reinstalled the software and instead of restoring it from a back up set it up as a new device.. problem meet solution..at least for me...

if you have not tried this please do. some of you or maybe even all of you may be plesently surprised.

you should also do the update via usb cable using the computer i found it worked the first time without a hitch..

i should also mention that once you do this and discover your i device working properly you can then try to restore the phone from a previously backed up version... dont ask why i know its rediculus that you have to do this but its a work around that i discovered recently that worked on all of my devices that had this issue. this will be hit or miss though as i had an iphone 4 that wouldnt do it but my ipad 2 and iphone 4s did.. and my wifes 3gs was a nightmare but eventually i was able to get it to work. and also if you have NEVER reset your router during the time you have had this problem i would recomend doing so.. it cant hurt anything and ive noticed that some people simply have a router issue where it needs to be reset.. for instence you type in your passkey to join the network and you know you typed it correctly but the error comes up that you cant connect.. so thats a quick fix too for some.. not all but some.

sounds like the problem is a combination of faulty hardware, firmware and software.

clue #1: the problem does not arise until an iOS update.

clue #2: the problem does not occur in all iPads & iPhones. only certain units.

clue #3: for some users, changing the configuration of the wifi solves the issue.

that's my guess.

Cant believe there is no solution! Tried everything! I wish I could contact Aplle and get them to replace this piece of junk...