cant connect to ad hoc network with ios 6

Yes, connecting to the internet is fine, Thanks BklynBridge - I use this too, but that's not the issue we musicians are struggling with.

We are having an unreliable ad-hoc network connection when trying to send midi (and osc) over the network. The iPad seems to be the culprit in my troubleshooting; needing a reboot to 'refresh' it's network memory.

... mmmmm techmologee

I am having a more basic problem than you all. I can't even get my ipad to recognize the ad-hoc network I created on Windows XP (see attached image). Can anyone help me solve this?

This is ridiculous. IOS 6.1 installed and STILL not able to do a quick & easy ad-hoc connection like the good old days of 5. Oh well, I just ended up phasing wifi out of my music setup with different methods and an Alesis io dock anyway. Wifi was great when it worked, but overall it was probably the worst thing to ever happen to my whole studio. I think I hate troubleshooting wifi more than just about anything else to do with computers and music.

I just laugh every time iTunes tries to update itself from 10.7.

Having exactly the same problem here. I haven't updated to 6.1.1. Anyone updated to it and did it fix the problem?

Add me as yet another person who cannot get ad hoc networks to work between my MBP & IP2. Works fine over regular wifi. Worked fine in iOS5. This is a very serious problem for musicians, Apple!

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Me, too. I can get a wireless connection icon on my iPod by using a static IP (procedure explained in many other posts), but alas, I still cannot get internet service. And, yes, I have ICS enabled.

p.s. - on Windows 7.

In case apple is watching this, I am also facing the same problem: Ipad 2 trying to connect to Windows Vista ad-hoc network, with the Ipad running the most recent update (6.1.2?). I detect the network and get the wireless bars but fails when I actually try to access a website. Made the more frustrating because I have an iPhone 4s sat next to it connected to the same network and working great. (In fact when i TRY to connect the iPad it slows the connection to the iphone down). A fix for this from apple would be stellar.

I found a bizarre workaround that requires a separate, wired internet connection. I have been trying to sync documents (using Papers2) between my Macbook & iPad mini in my hotel room. As everyone has found, the ad-hoc network I can create with my macbook doesn't cut it.

But, if I connect my Macbook to the wired internet source, and then if I enable internet sharing through wifi, the wireless network that I create DOES allow syncing. When I connect my iPad to this wireless network, I can sync just fine. If, however, I unplug the ethernet cable from my Macbook, the three little wifi bars disappear from my iPad, and syncing no longer works.

So, the wifi network that is created by a Macbook is 100% able to support syncing to the iPad (and iPhone), but it needs to be "supported" by the presence of a completely pointless, extraneous network. This is absurd. Apple, please un-break this.

Yep, count me in as another musician trying this. I tried setting up:

1. An ad hoc on my windows xp laptop. The ipad with 6.1 wouldn't even find the ad hoc wireless and put the name in its wifi list.

2. I set up a dlink router (without an Internet connection) to broadcast an ssid. I was able to select that network in the iPad wifi list. But it never put a check mark there even though it finally recd an IP address. Of course, my ap (presonus sl-remote) acted as though it kept losing the connection.

It seems like the iPad is always looking for an Internet connection and is not stabilizing on a wifi connection without one. But I don't want or need an Internet connection for this application.

So, I finally got around this disappointment by setting up a personal hotspot on the iPad and connecting the windows Xp laptop to it. Not ideal, but it seems to work for what I need.

Agree that Apple, with its reputation as being better for and more in tune with the artistic types should be sensitive to this need and fix it ASAP.

It seems like the iPad is always looking for an Internet connection and is not stabilizing on a wifi connection without one. But I don't want or need an Internet connection for this application.

ARRRGH ... yes. The very same patronizing attitude seems to be behind the "You are not connected to the Internet" popup warning that started in Lion. Can't stand it.

Apple, this has been an issue since 6.1, many people are complaining. All over Chicago I see billboards with pitctures of the iPad with piano-keyboard app, it is insulting. We need adhoc connections to perform with our iPads. Even if a venue I perform at HAS an internet connection, it is often too weak.

I actually bought an iPad ONLY to use it as a midi controller, it was beautiful until iOS 6. Why are you not addressing the issue? I told myself to be patient, that by the next update this would probably be fixed. Here we are, no fix.

We have spent countless hours trying workarounds (which obviously do not work for everybody), the least you can do is have the common courtesy to respond with an explanation.

Hello my fellow unable-to-make-a-connection-over-an-Ad-Hoc-network people...

I'm also a hobbyist musician who wanted to avoid the route of having to buy expensive physical midi controllers by using the iPad's wireless capabilities, only to be thwarted at the last, seemingly by a design fault in Apple's latest version of its iOS. It's a good job I have been atttempting to setup my network connection using a lite (free) version of Midi Designer, because I would have been extremely peed-off if I'd succumbed to the urge to buy Lemur, only to discover it was impossible to make it work using the connection type I wanted it to work on, i.e. wirelessly, using an Ad Hoc network connection to my PC.

How can they continue to sell apps in their app store that require an ad hoc network connection for them to actually work? Is that even legal? Is their get-out-of-jail-free card the fact that a wired conection is a possible alternative for these apps that they think this will suffice as a solution?!

I thought it was just me doing something wrong until I discovered this thread. I was watching countless demonstration clips of people effortlessly making ad hoc connections without issues, that had me pulling my hair out.

I'm bumping this post every day until we get acknowledgement (at least) that they admit they have dropped the ball on this one. Why can't they just tell us they know about us and that they will send a boat out to save our souls, very soon?

Apple, if and when you read this, I want you to imagine the unreciprocated love of a neglected, lonely child. Earn my love, Apple, and tell me you hear me crying.

Yeah, I don't get it.. why is Apple just "ignoring" this problem? Don't they care? Don't they read this message board? I am guessing "no" to both questions...

Geez, ad-hoc networking was working fine in iOS 5.x... I wish I had not upgraded to version 6!

I posted this issue in the TouchOSC forum last December, didn't realize someone replied at the end of January.

It works if you create a 128-Bit WEP AdHoc network

And it actually DOES work, at least on my PC Windows 7 - with TouchOSC - haven't tested with anything else. To make it 128-bit your password HAS to be 13 hexidecimal digits! NOT 5 (or 7 or whatever the other option is, I forget), which makes it 64-bit or something (you should verify this yourself just to be sure).

If this works for any of you I will be delighted, though even more irrate with Apple because this solution is a REALLY simple one, I'm surprised I didn't discover it after setting up and deleting ad-hocs every which way.

I will be doing some more hardcore testing to see if it drops but after hours it defintely worked no problem.

Really curious to see if this solves the issue for other applications as well.