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C4RLOCO Author

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iPhone5 issues with WPA2/AES Wifi

I am using a Dual- Band Linksys E2500 router with WPA2 Personal (WPA2/AES) enabled. None of my other apple products (iPhone4S, iPhone4, iPad2 and the New iPad) have had problems connecting to my router. But everything changed when I got my iPhone5.

Basically the iPhone5 is capable to connect to the WPA2-Personal wifi network but after 1-2min starts to drop network packages, hence, I cannot browse any page (not even the router page 192.168.1.1) even though I still have a valid IP and the wifi icon is shown on my top screen.

I pinged the phone from my router diagnostics page and while I can browse the web with the iPhone5, I can see no packages lost. However after 1-2min the iPhone5 cannot open any websites while still connected to the wifi, it starts to show network packages lost.

A workaround that I found was to create a "Guest" network (which is not WPA2-Personal) or even WEP. There are no issues when connecting to these alternate networks.

Can anyone out there confirm this issue?? Is it software or hardware related?? It seems to me there are issues with WPA2-Personal (WPA2/AES)

Thanks in advance,

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 23, 2012 6:50 AM

544 replies

May 29, 2014 1:56 AM in response to C4RLOCO

I still don't understand why people are having this issue I fixed mine a year ago the solution was VERY simple.

1. Goto apple store

2. Shout at the smug so n so's until they replace device

3. Get replaced device

4. Leave

Apr 22, 2015 12:07 PM in response to slugworth1987

I was having same problem with my iPhone 5. The problem was the AES encryption, so I changed the security settings on my router to

WPA/WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES)

and I was then able to connect.

Long thread, not sure if it's been mentioned, but I hope it will help anyone else who is having the same trouble.

Best regards,

Drachen

Apr 22, 2015 12:27 PM in response to drachenfeder

Further to my last post, you can revert to the optimal setting in your router after the device has handshaked. Seems strange, but I was able to surf on my iPhone 5 after changing it back to WPA2-PSK (AES) which is the recommended setting.

Sep 10, 2016 5:24 PM in response to Scorpiao

This worked for me. Set channel fixed it.

iPhone5 issues with WPA2/AES Wifi