Poor wifi reception on new iPad

Buy a new WiFi router.

Same thing happens at the office, on airplanes where I bought access, and at wifi access points throughout the US and Asia ( Hong Kong, China, Thailand, and Korea). Millions of routers in those countries - they can't all be wrong!

Then get a replacement iPad. Yours must be defective.

Hopefully, based on the skewed reports on this thread, you haven't concluded that all iPads have defective WiFi. I've used my iPad on dozens of networks with no problems.

" How many trips will I have to make to the Apple store until I get a good Ipad? "

In my case three.

The third time I decided to get a Verizon iPad, At least then I can connect to the Internet when Wi-Fi doesn't work.

To my surprise the Wi-Fi on this iPad works much better. I verified this by going to My normal - two different coffee shops and a pizza place.

Perhaps there is a difference with the Cellier iPads - the Wi-Fi works better.

For me the Extra $130 is worth it - just for the Wi-Fi.

In my case, one. I got my wifi only iPad3 this past May. Upgraded to OS6 in October. Never a problem with Wifi except the reception isn't outstanding in most cases, but not dismal either.

Wow, just found this thread after receiving my ipad3 and barely getting any wifi connections in town. My 7 year old Dell Latitude X1 can pick up signals from 300 feet that my ipad can't at 50 ft. I've tried all the possible remedies. How can anyone ignore that there is a problem after 95 PAGES of posts? Apple support did acknowledge a probelm but still won't say if it is a hardware or software issue. That is pretty lame. I guess I'll be returning it and looking at other options...

They just announced the new iPad 4 today. Supposedly it has faster WiFi. I don't know if that means that they overcame this little issue. But if I were you, I'd return the iPad 3 and wait a couple of weeks to see how things shake out with the newest iPad.

Done!

Thanks

Apple must give us a new iPad4 for all these inconveniences... 😢

I can't use it as I use my iPhone or as they announced.

I bought a lot of Apple devices

two 17" MBP

one 13" MBP

two iPhone 4

one iPhone 3GS

three iPad

five iPod nano

one iPod Hi-Fi

one 2TB Time Capsule

one Airport Express

and never had been so unhappy with this iPad3..

I bought 2 iPad3 Wi-Fi at same day, same Apple Store but one of them is white. This one has the annoying problem. The black is OK until now.

I installed the Airport Express as bridge in my kitchen.

I only can achieve wi-fi signal on iPad3 if it's near a half palm from the Airport Express.

I don't have any problem if I connect to TC bridge 5GHz Wi-Fi.

My other iDevices connect to any of them without problem.

I'm testing now my two iPad3 both at same room.

The black iPad3 can connect to router wi-fi (WPA2)

The white iPad3 can't. It connects only to 5GHz TimeCapsule bridge wi-fi (WPA/WPA2)

The both serial number begins with DMPHGC

Please Apple do something... 😟

macfanta wrote:

I bought 2 iPad3 Wi-Fi at same day, same Apple Store but one of them is white. This one has the annoying problem. The black is OK until now.

Have you contacted AppleCare at all?

I'm on my third iPad 3 and I think my problems are solved. I finally made it to the Apple Store to meet with a genius, briefly described my problem and walked out a few minutes later with a replacement, no hassle. Both units that I returned had serial numbers starting with DM. This one starts with DK and the wifi is working fine.

I Just got my 2nd ipad and I keep losing my wifi after I'm on this piece of S**T for an hour I did all the resets and Nothing ! It goes back tomorrow I'm done and I have to pay Verison $70 restocking fee too !!!! I'm done with Apple products !!!

My iPad 2 was fine until a month ago, when I couldn't get onto the wifi network on the Dutch trains. Then last week, I started losing wifi when I was upstairs, one floor away from my modem. I'd been using it for almost a year with no problems, then suddenly, nothing unless I am in the same room as the modem. Not even when holding it as advised here. So problems are not restricted to the iPad 3.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4551125

So disappointing. I purchased a new iPad 4 (64gb Verizon 4G LTE - expensive for a tablet at over $829 base plus cases and extended warranties = $1200+). I figured hey, I know how the iPad had transformed the way I interact with a lot of things in my life over the past couple of years, so it's worth it. I had been in a whirlwind love affair for several years with my bulletproof, nearly perfect in every way iPad 1 wifi 32gb model, but alas, that was coming to an end due to the sun setting on the iOS on the device's useful life (thanks for that). While I'm embarrassed for my family to admit it, I could easily use old faithful 8+ hours a day, every day, without a single issue for years. I could hold in in any case, in any position. Then a friend pointed out that all good things must come to an end, so I broke down, scraped up my pennies (and that's a lot of pennies) and bought the shiny, new iPad 4.

I love the battery life on my new iPad 4, I love the display, I love Siri and the blazing fast speed, but the wifi is absolutely horrific! As I right this, I'm having to carefully hold the device in portrait mode and not let it touch my chest lest I totally drop my wifi signal again and have to login in again to the hotel wifi for a 3rd time. Turning it to landscape (which feels most natural to me) instantly causes my signal to go to one bar. This is the same everywhere I go - at home, at work, in hotels, on planes, even my mifi hotspot. This is abysmal. It's not the all of the routers around the globe - my Mac book air, my iPhone 4S, and my iPad 1 still get great signals and good rates when using speed test. This is so tragically bad, I even had to scrape the little white fruit sticker of the back window of my plug-in Prius out of hurt (yes, I know, egads you say!).

I've been in tech for 20+ years, learned to crawl on apple IIc as a child, and I still work for a major software developer and apple partner as I write this. We all expect a problem once in a while, but you expect it to be QA'ed, debugged, acknowledged (if only a tech update), and made right. Come on guys, you are so much better than this.

Please say that the love affair is not over.