iPhone 5 wifi issues

Same here. iPhone 5 16gb on AT&T. I paid outright for it and can't even use wifi and none of the solutions work. Changing my client id, setting proxy to auto etc etc. Even after in unsecuring my wifi network I didn't notice a difference. Let alone I rather not leave my network open for my whole floor to freeload off of. When I use speedtest.net ocasionally it would show a download speed mich lower than my 4 wpuld pick up an the other half of the time it just shows zero even though my wifi icon shows its connected throughout. Webpages occasionally load no problem,pther time it gets hung up for a minute and it drives me nuts. And streaming video on youtube.... forget about it! Itll load for 2 seconds then buffer for eternity. if im lucky lol the best that will happen is it will continue playing after 30 seconds of buffering only to cut put 2-3 seconds later. And sometimes it will stop and buffer for awhile and continue playing the video in low quality which usually means its streaming through the cellular data rather than my wifi although it shows that I'm connected to wifi. Needs a fix pronto apple. I don't know if I should ride it and pray an update would patch the issue or if I should just get a replacement.

I'm not a phone engineer but it kinda seems like the wifi cuts out like every 20 seconds or so and reconnects over and over whilst showing its still connected. Because that'll explain why I occasionally get no response from a speed test and also explaining why when I watch a video on YouTube it plays in low quality because the app will stream from my lte rather than the wifi. Either way this needs to be fixed, smart phone without wifi connectivity is near worthless to me since I'm not on an unlimited data plan.

Yea but I don't think you're understanding the point lol. His point is because of these wifi issues he's been using higher amounts of data on his data plan. Surely apple will not reimburse customers for over using data from their carrier but telling him to just turn data off and not use the Internet is like me buying a new car and the next day it won't start and the dealers solution is "we'll if its broken then don't use it. Find another way to get around" lol.

At first I kept loosing wifi connection with my iphone5 while my iphone4 kept wifi connection. A common solution that I found for iphone5 users that worked for me was to set my HTTP proxy to Automatic. I am using a netgear router with WPA2 security. This appears to have fixed my issue of loosing wifi connectivity. I do think that the atenna on my 4 has better wifi range than my 5. I hope that this helps.

Hi Folks... my .2 worth.

I noticed that my iPhone5 name was "name 's iphone'

I also noticed that my connection kept dropping and reconnecting quite freq. I also looked my Netgear R6300 logs and seen that name pop in and drop. Process repeated a few times then no more connection to my Wifi. So I then re-joined and same loop.

Then, I decided to change out those illeagel dns names from my phone to "name_s-iPhone"

Once then I re-joined in. And sure enough it liked it and now it stays connected. Plus now I see it as an attached wireless devices tab on my router

Have same issue. I have an White IPhone 5 16g. Notice yesterday after finally getting my phone activated on my line that I couldn't watch any video while I was connected to Wifi, also I couldn't walk to the other side of my house without it dropping the signal. Two things that never happened on my 4 or iPad 2. So after googling it to make sure it wasnt just me. I started running speed test and to my surprise I was only getting .25 Mbps down n 6 Mbps up on my five. So I ran them on all my devices both the 4 and the iPad 2 get 5 Mbps or better. I even pulled out my 3GS and ran if and pulled 5 + Mbps every time. Now all those other devices are running 5.1 OS. Now I started with the security setting in wifi and my Linksy would only let me run "N" speed ether wpa2 or disable so tried both nether helped tried every trick and short term fix on this forum and nothing helped. Well was on campus today and couldn't log in to any wifi there it would just keep spinning like it was trying to gain a IP address but couldn't. Called Verizon they were no help. I did how ever tried the "Test" in the client Id and it did help bumping me up to an amazing 2 Mbps but that only lasted a short time and afterward I lost wifi again like while on campus. I also realized if u are connected to you cellular data plan while on wifi u do get a faster speed but still slower then actually being connected to 3G or LTE. I also checked my SN and its week 37 phone so Hopefully this info will help some how.

iPhone 5 wireless WIFI connection drop

I just received my iPhone 5 on a 21st waiting in line

I have the same problem that other people report regarding the Wi-Fi working and and suddenly dropped

losing connection.

I think I find solution to this problem

just few technical note I'm running IOS 6.0

The 1st version IOS 6.0

my router is NETGEAR GENIE FIRMWARE VERSION V1.0.0.22_1.0.17

this is my solution to this problem

1 login to your Router

2 click on wireless ( from the menu on the left side]

3 change the channel drop-down menu to the highest number instead of the default Automatic

I test it it's look like working ok no wifi network drop

John Dublon

Network engineer

If you are not using a http proxy, no need to have this on, this solves WIFi Issues.

Do the following

1. Select your Wifi In Settings>WiFi><Network Name>

2. Scroll down and make sure HTTP proxy is set to off. You only need Auto or Manual if you are in fact using a HTTP Proxy. IF YOU DO NOT CONNECT VIA A HTTP PROXY SELECT OFF.

If your non Apple Access Point (AP) is giving you problems with Apple devices consider visting their site for any firmware updates.

Any network speed test checks the speed of you internet connection, not the Phone to the AP, so this is a false metric to trouble shoot a connect between a device and AP. If your broad band is slow then contact your provider.

My White 16 VZ that arrived scuffed and very warm (despite being powered off), would not hold a charge and would not maintain a WiFi connection with WPA2, was replaced as a leap of faith by an Irvine Spectrum Genius (capital G) and I'm very sorry to report the OEM replacement has the same WPA2 issue and shows fewer bars on VZ, sometimes falling back to 3G (which, as a reminder, is dog slow on VZ and Sprint). In fact, I could not even "scan for networks" with this unit until I reset the Network settings. I had been informed I would be unable to return this unit to VZ because it's a different serial number. So only option now is to wait for the recall --unless this one has the battery issues to, in which case I'm going back. One thing, the unit I returned had been restored from Backup via iTunes. Out of an abundance of caution I did not restore this unit from anything, set it up as new, with a new SIMM too. At least it's not scuffed, oh and no pinhole light leak.

Having problem with internet connectivity on WIFI - anything that depends on DNS for data whether it is a web browser or an app while using WIFI. I call this problem "WIFI Lockout".

This happens on iphone 4, ipad 2 and ipad 3 that has been updated to iOS 6.

I am not talking about the issue of the missing apple page (day 1) or the inability to turn on/configure WIFI after updating to iOS 6.

This is what i have discovered so far.

You could be in the middle of surfing or using any app that makes data calls based on DNS (when you type google.com that is translated in the background so your device knows where to go - summary only) and suddenly you can go no where or do nothing!

Sometimes conectivity goes trouble free for long periods, other times it is repetitive "WIFI Lockout".

Yea sure, you can restart the WIFI connection, but WHO wants to CONTINUALLY do that?

Interestingly enought the device is still successfully connected to the internet via WIFI, but DNS request fail to pass successfully from the iOS 6 device.

Apple (or any curious iOS 6 user that wants to see my point), when this happens "WIFI Lockout" open up a browser before you reset the WIFI connection and type type 74.125.227.144 (google) and then “go” (I tried both safari and chrome). A google search page will come up and you will be able to execute a search (of course any link you click on will not work as it is dependant on DNS resolution).

The above IP connection to google proves NON DNS traffic works, so the issue is not the WIFI hconnection to the access point that is the problem. It is not an access point configuration/firmware or security protocol issue either because data does pass when the above steps are followed.

I KNOW THIS IS NOT ALL OF THE PROBLEMS WITH iOS 6, BUT THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM NOT BEING ABLE TO SURF OR GET DATA THE iOS 6 DEVICE IS REQUESTING WHILE ON WIFI.

I can corroborate your finding. With this replacement unit, when WiFi /WPA2 hangs, entering IPs directly to Safari continues to work. The DNS resolver library in iOS 6 should have a small memory cache --it's interesting that's not functioning in some iPhone 5s.

This is my situation; wifi is functional for the most part. No problems of service cutting in or out. When I noticed a problem was Watching a video on YouTube it had to stop Buffer a s load. (This might be elected on 3G or whatever) but I realized I wAs at home and it tested 5down and 1 up ok (normally faster) tested my computer a second later it go 11 download and 1.5 up. So the wifi speed is about half of what it would be at home wi test other places to find out

Same thing was happening to me. Wouldn't connect automatically. I have a Linksys router on my network.

Go into the router and be sure that your router network name is exactally the same as the rest of your network. My router still had the factory setting of "Linksys" and my network on my computers had a different name. I changed Linksys to the correct network name and everlything works perfect.

Just got my iPhone 5 today and am having wifi issue with it.

Restoring from iCloud took longer than it should have. Re-installing all the apps went SUPER slow, and hung most of the time. Meaning the little blue bar would NOT move while downloading apps. I would have to click on them to get them to continue downloading.

Exchange calendar sync to gmail would not work properly. My calendars would show up, but only a small portion of the data would actually sync.

Finally I setup my guest network with no encryption, and exchange synced ok. Apps also started to download, but I'm actually still having wifi issues, even on a non encrypted network.

I called into Apple support, where they told me they hadn't heard of any iPhone 5 issues. They then proceeded to try and find any excuse in the book they could to explain the issue. From maybe you are too far from your wifi AP, to maybe apples servers are just slow right now, to maybe google doesnt have their exchange software up to date.....

It ended when he wanted me to wipe the phone, and set it up as new to see if I could reproduce the problem. I told him, I wasn't willing to go that far, as my setup is quite complex, and it would take hours to set everything back up the way I have it. I just don't have that much time to be their guinea pig.

Plus I mentioned others on this forum who already tried that, and continued to have the same problems.

My point is, that everyone needs to call into apple support about this issue until they can't deny this is a problem anymore.

Good luck!

Some more clues I found fascinating. When the iPhone is waken up. I see it attached on my router under attracted devices. As soon as it goes to lock mode or I lock te phone it drops off the wire. When I press the top or bottom button on the phone ..... I see it on the router .

Almost looks like it does not stay connected to wifi when the phone locks.

Anyone can confrim this issue?

I have a netgear r6300 wireless router and connectd via 5ghz connection.

Having problem with internet connectivity on WIFI - anything that depends on DNS for data whether it is a web browser or an app while using WIFI. I call this problem "WIFI Lockout".

This happens on iphone 4, ipad 2 and ipad 3 that has been updated to iOS 6.

I am not talking about the issue of the missing apple page (day 1) or the inability to turn on/configure WIFI after updating to iOS 6.

This is what i have discovered so far.

You could be in the middle of surfing or using any app that makes data calls based on DNS (when you type google.com that is translated in the background so your device knows where to go - summary only) and suddenly you can go no where or do nothing!

Sometimes conectivity goes trouble free for long periods, other times it is repetitive "WIFI Lockout".

Yea sure, you can restart the WIFI connection, but WHO wants to CONTINUALLY do that?

Interestingly enought the device is still successfully connected to the internet via WIFI, but DNS request fail to pass successfully from the iOS 6 device.

Apple (or any curious iOS 6 user that wants to see my point), when this happens "WIFI Lockout" open up a browser before you reset the WIFI connection and type type 74.125.227.144 (google) and then “go” (I tried both safari and chrome). A google search page will come up and you will be able to execute a search (of course any link you click on will not work as it is dependant on DNS resolution).

The above IP connection to google proves NON DNS traffic works, so the issue is not the WIFI connection to the access point that is the problem. It is not an access point configuration/firmware or security protocol issue either because data does pass when the above steps are followed.

I KNOW THIS IS NOT ALL OF THE PROBLEMS WITH iOS 6, BUT THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM NOT BEING ABLE TO SURF OR GET DATA THE iOS 6 DEVICE IS REQUESTING WHILE ON WIFI.