iPad Air slow WiFi connection

Changing my network to a 5GHz name also fixed my speed issues with my iPad Air and iPhone 5S

Changing Proxy to automatic solved the problem!

Thank you megaprime!

Try the following for the 5Ghz settings:

1) Diffrent SSID from 2.4Ghz

2) Channel 36

3) Set speed up to 300Mbps

It works at the moment for me, don't know for how long. Check also the speed your iPad is connected to the router (probably through your router page)

OK. Got my iPad Air 2 just a month ago and it was unusable for anything on the internet.

Was trying to download the new OS and it was saying it'll take 10 hours!!

Turned off Bluetooth and now it's saying 14 minutes. Very weird, but that seems to fix it.

Renaming the 5Ghz worked for me. Even downstairs I'm getting 50 Mbps.

Turning off Bluetooth fixed it for me

I wanted to add that it is important that the wireless router is not set to auto channel selection as this can affect throughp

I had same problem with different router this morning. My iPhone and Win7 notebook performed normally on the same wifi while my iPad Air was dreadfully slow. I turned off the iPad Air & rebooted problem solved.

I have the same problem with my IPad Air and it is nothing less than frustrating. All other devices in my home is working fine to include Iphones, MacBook Pro, Ipad first gen, Ipad Mini and PC. My router is an a Airport Extreme base station with Airport Express as an extender. Web pages on the Ipad Air will not load and You Tube videos stall. I usually abandon the Ipad Air because of the extreme frustration.

I found a You Tube video suggesting a fix. Go to Ipad Air Wifi settings, click your router and go to HTTP Proxy and change it from "Off" to "Auto". I experienced an obvious increase in Wifi speed and I am using my Ipad Air again. However I was unable to stream Amazon Instant Video and had to change the HTTP Proxy back to "off".

I don't understand why these adjustments to the Wifi settings are necessary. Apple should have released a product that was fully functional. Their R&D department fell short with the Wifi experience. Disappointing.

what caused my problems was in the security settings. For the "aes" and "tkip" setting it was switched to "both". If i set it to only aes or tkip it works just fine for me. This was using a qwest dsl modem/router.

I know this sounds too simple. I was having the same slow WIFI on ipad air. Come to find out I was using cellular instead of WIFI. I forgot to update settings after using only cellular.

Turning off Bluetooth fixed it for me

I changed proxy to auto and it uppped the speed a little. I then bought a new NETGEAR R6250 AC1600 dual and gigabit router and the wifi maxed out at the speed provided by Comcast, about 30mbs in my case. I agree it has to do with an issue in the new MIMO technology used by Apple in the air.

Hi, Spent some time at Apple store this evening. The network specialist on the Genius bar thinks it may be software related and could be a compability issue between iPad Air and HH5. The key difference is that the iPad Air is the first iOS device to use MIMO technology.

They are raising a case with higher level support to log the issue for further investigation. I await a firmware update 🙂

I have had the same issue but it has not been fixed by renaming the 5Ghz network. We have two iPad Air connected to HH5. I have manged to reproduce the issue described where wifi crashes if streaming and downloading. I can also reproduce on both iPads. Other devices including an iPad2 work fine.

I have even turned off the 2.4GHz and was able to reproduce the issue.

It would be good if others could also repeat the following test.

1. Connect Ipad Air to 5GHz wifi band

2. Stream from bbc iplayer - live channel

3. Download a large app such as Pages / Numbers / Garageband.

Pretty much everytime the wifi crashes. Without downloading apps I can stream without error. Also no issue seen on the 2.4Ghz band.

Apple have asked me to visit Apple store to try and reproduce on their network so hopefully this will prove if it is the iPad or HH5 at fault.