Q: Intermittent Wifi issues with iPad 2 and WiFi

I fixed the problem using a different channel for wi-fi connection and using a static ip on the LAN.

My tp link 841n router has WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) but no QOS setting in the firmware (latest)

I will try with and without enabled, will report back later.

Hi ppperri,

It is nice to hear that your problem has been fixed.

I also experienced the same issue with my new iPad2 16 gb wifi only bought a week ago. My iPad could find a wifi network with full strength which I could connect by my iPhone 4s yet my iPad keep on trying to connect to the network

Haven't had time to read the whole thread so if this has been suggested my apologies, but had the same problem at my mothers, she had an old belkin router which I swapped for a spare netgear router I had, problem solved, I hope it's that simple!

I have a Cisco 871 router that is awesome

When I got the ipad1 I had an even worse wifi connection issue. I tried everything and it would get a little better and then go back to awful. Apple would suggest all kinds of time consuming nonsense that didn't work - and then the real kick in the nuts - "we know it's compatible with other apple products." the message I took away was that apple didn't care about their screw-up as long it works with other apple products. Is this their way of trying to push their router sales? It wasn't until apple came out with a new os (6 months later) that it was fixed. IMHO it was crap programming.

I am now having the same problem, though not quite as bad, with my new ipad2. I can't believe apple screwed this up again!

With the ipad1 I could see how they could have an unanticipated problem, 2 years later it is just sloppiness. It is a beautifully designed product, apparently they need to pay some more attention to what's on the inside.

As I write this on an ipad2 the connection has died 3 times and I am 15 feet away from the router.

I realize it may not look the best on the beautiful case, but apple needs to add ethernet ports until they figure out how to build wifi products

maybe you should go to wal mart and buy a new wireless router just to test things out. mobile devices stress wireless routers much more than a laptop or other constantly connected devices.

i had problems with 2 wireless routers in the past (1 belkin, and 1 linksys wrt160). I've since changed to a linksys e4200 and all my problems went away.

if you bring home a new one from wal mart, you should at least be able to make sure it is not your wireless router. if your problem is not solved by the new one - you can always return it!

good luck!

I noticed this problem when I had the original iPad (which seemed to be fixed with one of the OS updates), I've also been experiencing the same issue with the new iPad. I think I might have resolved the issue by altering the router from b & g to just g. 

Hi,

    I have an old dlink-524 and had slow wifi connection on iPad 2. I was able to resolve it by switching to static ip for the clients, including iPad 2 connected to my wifi router. I have also set beacon interval to 50, Rts threshold to 2306 and fragmentation to 2304.

Regards,

VkV

Updated to latest IOS and cancelled DHCP and started using static ip from the routers wireless ip pool changed the DNS to the Routs DNS. Using this setup about 24 hours and everything seems okay, I hope this will solve the problem if the problem will repeat I don't what to do next, I tried every possible solution advised in the net.

After I went to static ip it started dropping the connection so went back to dhcp with the other settings like beacon interval and it's ok so far. One thing I noticed is that the iPad hostnames is the name in iTunes and of the form your name's-iPad. This is not a valid hostname as hostnames can't have apostrophes. So I removed the apostrophe in iTunes.

Vkv

Ok - have a Cisco router that is 100 times better than anything sold at Walmart, the current router works great with 2 iPhones, 2 blackeberries, a Mac, 2 windows lap tops, 2 cable boxes and 3 ip security cameras - and a ipad1 - all at the same time. The only problem child is the ipad2, which is having the same problems the ipad1 was until apple fixed it in the os update. And you seriously suggest a new router? My problem was assuming that apple would get their s$&t together in the second go around.

Did you notice that there are thousands of posts on this problem, but apple just shrugs it off?  You wouldn't be working for Walmart would you?

i am getting the impression that a lot of you guys reading this post are frustrated that there is NO solution to this iPad/iPad2 & WiFi problem.

let me tell you that there is (for some of us at least).

my problem was solved by disabling the QoS/WMM setting in my TP-Link router.

i can't guarantee that this solution will also solve your own problems. what i am saying is that you just have to be patient and read through this forum & try all the solutions suggested.

the posters in this thread are not Apple engineers/employees, so we have no reason to BS anyone else.

unless they have Apple shares, which i don't have :-(

good luck to those who are still having problems.

I bought a new iPad 2 one week ago, and updated it to ios 5.1. The first week was perfect, but yesterday I started encountering wifi issues. All of sudden I lost my wifi connection despite the fact that my iPhone 4 was not having connection issues, so it's not a router problem. All I did was turning off my iPad 2 for 15 minutes and turn it back on and there you go, connection is good for another 5 hours. After that connection problem, again. So I turn it off for about an hour, and then on, still using it without problems for two hours now. I think it's a hardware issue, the wifi card might be overheating, so needs to be cooled down for once in a whike. I'll try my iPad for another week and let you posted for any news.

To ae58

I have the tp link 841n, I found WMM but no QOS are they 1 in the same? Just disable WMM?

mine works best on channell 11 btw, do you keep yours on auto channel?