iPhone 5 wifi woes

Got my white 32Gb iPhone today, but am having severe problems with WiFi. I have an airport extreme, and the iPhone detects both bands, and after a few attempts accepts the password required to connect. However, I get no internet connection, and the iPhone continuously drops back to indicating "3G" before it'll fetch any data. I have reset network settings, and now done a restore- neither make any difference.


Hugely disappointed, seems like I have a faulty phone- or is anyone else having the same problem?

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 11:33 AM

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Sep 21, 2012 3:20 PM in response to Thetechnogeek

Also having issues with IP5. Using AirPort Extreme at home. If I connect to wifi only (by turning on airplane mode, wifi on) it stays connected. If I only use 4G, I can connect to the Internet. If I have both 4G and wifi, I'm not able to connect to the net. I went to AT&T and tried their hotspot and regular wifi connection and was able to reproduce the problem. I'm hoping it's just a software problem!

Sep 21, 2012 4:37 PM in response to Thetechnogeek

Now tested iphone 5 64GB on two different networks. One at my school (I'm a teacher), the other at a Super 8 hotel 100 miles away. The one at school uses a login page, no key. The Super 8 is open. I can connect, but no page loads. iPad 3 works at Super 8 (ios6) but not at school (unable to join network, separate issue already on these pages). iPhone 3GS on ios 6 works on both.

Sep 21, 2012 4:48 PM in response to Thetechnogeek

I picked up the 32gig Black iPhone 5 and it does notwork well on wifi. I have a network with a time capsule, airport extreme and an airport express all providing a wide wifi n network. I have 4 iPads, two 27 inch imacs, ipod touch, ibook G4, 4 MacBook Air, 3 Apple TV, two iPhone 4, one iPhone 3g, a PS3, Nintendo Wii and several other smaller wifi devices all connected to this network on a 50meg cable modem line. Everything works flawlessly but my new iPhone 5 will connect, get an IP address but will not access the internet with safari or any apps. I am using WPA security. When I turn on internet sharing on one of my iMacs and setup a different wifi network with no security, the iPhone 5 works great. What gives????


Help??


On hold with Apple tech support for 20 minutes now...


Arun

Sep 21, 2012 4:53 PM in response to Thetechnogeek

Try this, worked for me with WPA2.


make sure you click 'forget' the network that you are trying to connect to before trying this.

-WiFi off

-WiFi on

-click 'Other' network.

-type in the name of your network

-type in the security code

-done.


It worked for me after my iphone 5 kept disconnecting everytime it went on standby and having to re-connect every time i turned the phone back on.


Sam

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