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Anyone still having IOS 6 wifi issues?

I'm currently waiting on Apple support to call me back about this issue, but I thought I would reach out here to see if anyone else is having similar issues.


I upgraded to IOS 6 yesterday afternoon, and immediately after I could no longer connect to the Wifi at my place of employment. Everyone had this issue, no big deal.


Went home, Wifi worked fine.


Came into work this morning and I am still unable to connect. I have tried all of the various recommended fixes, and even gone so far as to do a complete restore. I work at a university with multiple networks and access points and have tried connecting to several, both secure and unsecure, with no luck.


This is what happens:

Unsecure Networks: Attempt to connect, wheel spins, Error Message: "Unable to Connect"

Secure Network: Attempt to connect, prompted for password, enter password, Error Message: "Incorrect Password" (Yes I entered the correct password, I tried multiple times, and the IT tech was able to connect to it with his iPad 2 running IOS 5)


I am also not the only one, everyone on campus who has upgraded their iPad 3 to IOS 6 is unable to connect. (All staff/factulty have iPads, most have upgraded)


I have spoken with the IT department and they are baffled, they have tried rebooting various routers and access points to no avail.


Obviously there is something different happening in IOS 6 that is causing these issues. My question is has anyone else encoutered this issue, and if so what have you done to fix it?


I have seen people above who have upgraded firmware on their personal wireless routers with success, but for a university with literally hundress of access points and routers this is out of the question, at least in the short term.

iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 9:39 AM

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Sep 22, 2012 4:02 PM in response to clemon85

SUCCESS!


Okay I know you've read this before but this is how I finally managed to get it to work (or maybe apple did something). I have the new iPad. Like you may have read earlier

1. Go to wifi

2. Select blue arrow button to the right of the network you chose to connect.

3. Select auto if off was selected under the http proxy section.

4. In the URL type your IP address.

5. Voila!


Let me know if it worked for you I was struggling since morning. If not don't be ******. Just trying to help.

Sep 22, 2012 11:52 PM in response to bethfromscarsdale

There seems to have been two big wifi headings - on what level they're linked to the same bug I don't know...

1. General wifi issues, sorted for some because there was a quick fix on the Apple side.

2. A deep-seated bug, probably iOS6, where the upgrade itself has killed connectivity to some router.

( ie, I, for example, have no issue at home ... But I have an Apple TC. At work, where everyone's pre iOS6 devices connect painlessly, exception my 4S, and a brand new 5, both on iOS6.)


Can only assumed the latter issues will have to be patched by iOS 6.01

Sep 22, 2012 11:59 PM in response to Smiffy_UK

Without having any Apple "official" acknowledgement, there's no clue as to when 6.01 will come out. Sadly, we've got the deep-seated bug issue on two 4S phones and two IPad 2 devices. Very frustrating and potentially very expensive in unrealized overage on our data plans. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH! Would try to downgrade back to 5.1.1 but don't want to mess up the devices.

Sep 23, 2012 12:08 AM in response to bethfromscarsdale

I feel your pain. Luckily, London has the worse 3G speeds and coverage since the 18th century ... meaning I've gotten used to having to rely on cellular data. It's that bad here.

If my home wifi was dead, I would not be as ... reserved.


It's hard to defend apple when they roll out this sh*t... bring back my Apple ][. That thing was indestrctable..!

Sep 23, 2012 12:14 AM in response to clemon85

I will give you a description of what is happening to me here, Melbourne.

I upgraded to iOS 6 yesterday. Since I did that, I noticed I could not send a picture via twitter or FB using my wifi connection from home, it kept telling me it timed out and couldn't connect to server. I reset network settings, nothing changed. I tried to download an app later in the evening and I got "cannot connect to itunes store". I tried to download a song, same message. I then tried to send an imessage, it was asking me to sign in (first time used after upgrade) and when I put my apple ID in, it timed out again, saying cannot connect to itunes store. Frustrated I slept on it.

This morning thought I would restore the ipad. Got all the way through to adding in my apple ID and WHA LA, cannot connect to itunes store, timed out. AHHH... I then was stuck in the middle of a restore and can't do jack. I go to apple store. I get techo to check, use their WIFI and bingo, it all worked. I checked to see if I could sent pic via twitter and facebook, all good, works. YAY. Went to telstra shop to buy more prepaid. While there told them of my dramas with my home wifi which is with them. They log me into their wifi. All good, worked, YAY. Could get apps and send pics again.

Get home, MY wifi connection, can browse etc. Cannot do JACK when it comes to anything to do with a picture with my home wifi connection. Swap to 3G and it all works. Back to my wifi and can no longer send pics via twitter, facebook, imessage or email. I can also not view my picture albums in FB.

So, ring telstra, they can't pin point problem but think it's a slow wifi and have sent query to level 2.

I am not convinced it's a telstra problem because up until when I upgraded to iOS 6, my wifi worked a treat, never faultered. Now, it's absolutely irritating me. I can browse websites and stuff on safari, some pages time out... so something is amiss somewhere. I wish to **** I had not upgraded, the most frustrating thing I have ever done.

Grrrr

Lisa

Sep 23, 2012 12:29 AM in response to kojenku

I appreciate your suggestion but before upgrading to IOS 6 everything worked just fine. It is aggravating enough that wireless doesn't work. It's so frustrating and annoying that I now need to spend hours trying to fix something that wasn't broken until Apple released IOS 6. Lesson to self--do not immediately upgrade any new Apple releases; wait a few months for Apple to fix the bugs and problems. Haven't dared try the Maps function....

Sep 23, 2012 12:39 AM in response to bethfromscarsdale

my experience was worse than yours as i have two laptops an an ipad and none worked once the ipad was connected then shortly all failed.


my approach is to tell the router to do something but nothing changed for ipad. you only need to make sure DHCP is checked in Setting.


that way the update to ipad will not affect the router and the wifi should always working.

Anyone still having IOS 6 wifi issues?

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