Q: Poor wifi reception on new iPad

It surprises me, as I've said in other posts, that the staff at Apple stores aren't aware yet of the wifi situation.  Yesterday, when I went to the Apple store at The Grove, which is one of the most trafficked stores, they had never heard of it.  I bought my fourth iPad 3, and finally it works at home, in my bedroom, properly.  I didn't change any of the router settings, did nothing but just activate the new iPad.  So, my personal take is that it's not the router, but the iPad.

I find it surprising that people are comparing their MacBook Pro WiFi speeds to that of their iPads and iPhones. From what I've observed MacBook Pro is capable of much higher speeds than either the iPhone 4S or the iPad. My MacBook Pro has 50 download and 15 upload... on the other hand, both my iPad 3 and my iPhone 4S average about 22 download and 15 upload speeds... sometimes higher and sometimes lower. The app available for mobile devices from speed test.net is not even capable of going above 25 MBS, so it's not capable of even measuring against a MBP?... just trying to see through the confusion here. I received my iPad 3 on March 20 and so far so good.

I've tested my second iPad a little more and found that I also can replicate the death grip on the iPad, loosing my conection while lying in bed and having the iPad over my chest.

This definitely isn't a SW problem, it's clearly HW related. Everyone should start considering replacing their faulty units.

I'd like to add that my iPad is 16Gb Wi-Fi

Message was edited by: danielg88

I don't know how wide spread this problem is. I came across this thread but as I posted earlier, I've had no problems with my iPad 3. Spent last week in a hotel, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, and of course my home network. Did some testing after reading this thread and can't replicate any of these problems. So if it is hardware, it's not across the model. That is most likely why some Apple stores are not aware of it.

I think you should, so maybe all these people would slow down a bit.  I have a new ipad and my wife has an ipad 2.  Our wifi receptions are the same.

My Galaxy Tab although does not get as many bars as the ipads. But then, who cares if you have 3 or 4 bars.  C'mon, you are connected to the Internet, right?

People are too picky.  I want to see serial numbers on posts verified by Apple before I believe half of all these posts.

@Alaska99801 It always surprises me when people are so pointlessly rude and mean.  What purpose does it serve for you to be so disrespectful and judgmental?  Why would you challenge the number of people, me included, who have had difficulties with their iPads?  What basis do you have for ascertaining that the hundreds of iPads reported are problematic - because yours works?

I'm guessing that this is way you are in your life, to your family, friends, workers - and it ain't pretty.  Grow some empathy, heart, and a bit of trust, man.

my new iPad seems to have a harder time connecting to my Apple TC than it does my ASUS RT-N56U router... so i don't think it's reasonable to say that in my experience.

Oh man, I am a teddy bear with people that are reasonable, make sense, and ask the right questions.

But for people that complains that something is not exactly as the old stuff, I have not time for. Here, let me give you a better example.

Have you ever worked with someone that came from a different company, and everytime you have a neeting, this person brings out that that was not the way we did it in company x,y,z?

What do you do with him?  Let him ramble on, or you tell him, listen buddy you are not at x,y,z anymore, you are at a,b,c, so if you don't like it, move on.

Or you are too shy and timid to tell them how you feel?  Sorry for you.  Maybe you need to man up and express your true feelings.  There is nothing wrong with that. 

By the way, you do know that most people treat strangers better, more civil and with more courtesy than their own family? Not me buddy, I let you guys have it, in person, and here.  But come home as sweet as candy!  LOL.  Learn my friend, man up! 

You see guys, this guy here is a real man.  He found the problem, tried to solve it, it didn't work, and now he is doing the correct thing and taking the thing back.

Unlike the majority here whining and complaining about this and that.  You are not happy, TAKE IT BACK!

wait, now i'm confused... do i have to go through Alaska99801 or Apple Inc. in order to resolve the wifi reception issues with my new iPad? </sarcasm>

Of course you do!!!

But the bottom line is that the answers have already been provided in all the messages above.  Read them all instead of posting the same thing over and over again.  Don't you think that is lazy?

Do you know what the forums are for?

Technical questions, call Apple. You get a year warranty.  Do your due diligence, do not expect someone else to do that for you.

Have a great Sunday!!!  LOL.

PS:  Sarcasm is good...like the taxi driver in Seifeld:  Revenge is very good!!!

@alaska99801 Stop being a troll and get the **** out of this thread, People are giving there feedback to make apple aware of the problem. BTW Being a d-bag doesn't make you a man.... It just makes you a d-bag.

There are always bullies and trolls in these types of fthreads who need to make up for deficiencies in other areas of their lives or who apparently have nothing else to do.

However, if his handle is any indication of where he actually lives, I totally get it. I don't doubt that he has nothing else to do.

Perhaps he can see Russia from his house...

Posting in this thread will not inform Apple of anything. If you want to get a message to Apple contact Apple support and/or leave feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

This is a user-to-user technical help forum. If your iPad is having WiFi connection problems on multiple networks it quite likely has a hardware problem which can only be fixed by replacement. No one here can solve your problem.