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iPhone 4s wifi slow.

Purchased the phone on launch day had sluggish wifi issue from straight out the box incidently the misses has an iPhone 4 and all was well upuntil the ios5 install now she has suffered the same sluggish wifi speeds (just under 1mbps ive speed tested on my laptop and am getting 9mbs consistently) instead of running straight to the forums i thought id try and look into the issue via forum reading etc seems the problem was apparent in the 4 as well.


Ive tried every possible remedy i could find, restoring, wiping network settings, changing the dns settings, changing my router to 'b' only the only thing i have not tried is a different router as the one im using (Netgear WGR614v6) doesnt have the ability to use the mode 'N' and have read that could remedy it or wireless connection but with numerous other devices connected without problem i cant see how it would be a factor especially seeing as my partners iPhone 4 is experiencing the same issue after the os upgrade.


If anyone has the same issue or could perhaps point me in another direction i would be very greatful.

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 2:03 PM

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Oct 21, 2011 11:12 AM in response to sallion81

I am also having WiFi connection problems with my new 4S 16GB. I regularly use it with 2 home WiFi systems and one at work. I am not maintaining a connection and sometimes I don't seem to have a connection when the phone says that is has a connection.


I used my 3GS for 1 1/4 years in the exact same spots with no issues. Apple; please give us a fix!

Oct 22, 2011 5:04 AM in response to R8754

Yep same here my wifi is almost unusable with video, it will play stop........play..stop........ .

This is also a problem on my second iPhone 4S I just returned my first one yesterday. The new one has the same

Problem both were white. My old 3G and my wife's old (3GS on ios5) runs supper fast lodes videos with no problems.

My and speed test show my iPhone 4S getting .20 down and 9.20 up so there is definitely a problem apple please fix it. By the way I wanted to make sure it wasent just my home network so I checked the speeds at three other free wifi spots same problem with video was unusable to watch and downloaded speed test was supper slow uplode was really fast. Help please? Glen

Oct 22, 2011 5:04 PM in response to sallion81

My partner and I both have a black iPhone 4S's. We were experiencing similar problems with our home wi-fi (airport extreme) connection. We also have two airport expresses to extend the coverage in our house.


I did the following:


- Assigned static IP addresses to each of the new iPhones, using their wi-fi addresses.


- Added each of the iPhones to the Access Control lists on each of the airport devices, again using their w-fi addresses.


- Reset the network settings on both, which requires re-entering the network password.


After doing so, wi-fi syncing is fast, streaming videos play without interuption, and the wi-fi connection consistently shows 4 "bars", the same as our iMacs.


I hope this may help some of you.


Best regards,


Tom

Oct 22, 2011 9:31 PM in response to sallion81

Hi,


I pre-ordered mine and got it Friday October 14th and I agree with everyone here. APPLE PLEASE HELP!!!!

The Wifi drops every few minutes and it's just so annoying. My router works perfectly and I have tried restoring the Network Settings only for the phone to work for like 5 minutes and then drop again!!!


Please fix this issue, love the phone but this issue is really annoying and dissapointing so far!!

Oct 22, 2011 9:52 PM in response to ptownguy

When you do these steps have you run a speed test to see what you download speed is by chance. I ask cause when my iphone 4s is connected to my airport extreme is downloading at 1 meg, but while hooked up to my dlink router it downloads at a sold 9-10 meg? Very frustrated since apple to apple should play better then apple to dlink.

Oct 23, 2011 9:36 PM in response to R8754

Well I took back my airport extreme to best buy today and got a new one since mine had a faulty eithernet port it seemed but with the new extreme I now get 5-7 mps on speedtest.net and over 10 on the FCC speed test app so I dunno why it is only on some routers since the settings were all the same. Also spent 1 hour on apple care with them talking about the extreme downloading slow on iphone but my dlink downloading at 10mps and they had no answer and kept wanting to transfer me to iphone department and I kept repeating it is the router not the phone since the dlink still let the iphone download at 10mps. All in all I think apple is just as confused as we are in this whole deal.

Oct 25, 2011 3:33 PM in response to sallion81

I have the exact same issue. My iMac, MacBook and Mac Mini are all getting around 8Mbps down using Speedtest.net. iPhone 4s is getting about 1Mbps down. Dug out my old HTC incredible and it was right up there with the Mac's.


Upload speeds are all about 1-1.5Mbps (i have Clear...it's slow) All are connected to the newest model Airport Extreme.


Should I return the 4s as buyers remorse and go back to android?

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Oct 25, 2011 4:27 PM in response to sallion81

This has started happening to me on my 4s as well. The other day I had to restart the phone to get 3G working again and I noticed when the phone restarts its "searching" for a min or so. Today it's wifi no matter what I do I get like no Internet on wifi thru my time capsule. If it can test ping at all on the speedtest app it's like 2000+ and the needle won't leave 0mbps. However I'm posting this from my iPad 2 on the same time capsule on 5.0 it's testing 35mbps down. What the **** is going on?

Oct 26, 2011 3:57 AM in response to sallion81

i have the same issue i got my iphone 4 s 2 weeks ago and had nothing but problems with WIFI i am with BT and have the BThomehub 2 never has a problem with WIFI befor but now on my iphone when i used speedtest says its downloading at bearly 100 kb's were my 3g is more like 300+kb,s


and it loses connection to the router and i have to restart my phone and router to get it to work again


p.s i cant evern play poker what a joke on apples part..


ok done abit more testing and on my WIFI other a 100 tests i get a average of 83 KBPS


and on 3g i get 218.5 KBPS other 100 tests


come on apple now something must be wrong surely? so howe i fix it?

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