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Q: iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems

WI-Fi problems on iPad Air, iPad mini with Retina display and iPhone 5S after upgrading to iOS 8.

Typical results from OOKLA Speedtest before upgrade: Ping 17 ms, Upload 21 Mbps, Download 4.4 Mbps

Typical results after upgrade: Ping 39 ms, Download 2.9 Mbps, Upload 0.47 Mbps

iPad 2 with iOS 7.1.2 get 15 Mbps download and 4.4 upload on the same network.

Resetting network settings on the iOS 8 devices did not improve the performance.

Changing band on the router from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz did give me back the speed on all devices.

However the speed occasonally drops on the iOS 8 devices, and the signal strengt can go from full til lost connection without moving the devices.

Also sometimes the Wi-Fi SweetSpots app report 0 mbps when the signal strenght is indicated as full and then suddenly go up to around 58 Mbps again.

It is almost like the device is trying to use cellular network that I do not have on the iPads before it suddenly switches back to Wi-fi nettwork again.

I am thinking about going back to my iPad 2 with iOS 7.1.2 that is working perfectly until the Wi-Fi issues are resolved.

 

Any help will be very much appreciated!

iPad Air Wi-Fi, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 9:17 AM

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  • by Philly_Phan,

    Philly_Phan Philly_Phan Jan 31, 2015 5:25 PM in response to JayDangle
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    Jan 31, 2015 5:25 PM in response to JayDangle

    And ones and zeroes are still ones and zeroes unless, of course, your device has a hardware problem which is affecting voltage.

  • by elcpu,

    elcpu elcpu Jan 31, 2015 5:27 PM in response to JayDangle
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    Jan 31, 2015 5:27 PM in response to JayDangle

    Jay, don't waste your time responding to such people, they will not believe you no matter what you say. I have wasted too much time myself. mmurray47 had the audacity to ask me for data again, data that I posted many pages ago but he obviously did not read. These trolls have nothing to offer, they have not solved a single issue. They just want to argue so let them... Galileo was right no matter what the Pope and millions of Earth users thought!

     

  • by Philly_Phan,

    Philly_Phan Philly_Phan Jan 31, 2015 5:29 PM in response to elcpu
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    Jan 31, 2015 5:29 PM in response to elcpu

    Now we hear from the history expert.  Tell me - when are ones and zeroes different from ordinary ones and zeroes?

  • by mmurray47,

    mmurray47 mmurray47 Jan 31, 2015 5:31 PM in response to Scottyboy99
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    Jan 31, 2015 5:31 PM in response to Scottyboy99

    ...yeeahh.. Real authoritative source there... Apple's sales figures speaks for itself....

  • by mmurray47,

    mmurray47 mmurray47 Jan 31, 2015 5:41 PM in response to elcpu
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    Jan 31, 2015 5:41 PM in response to elcpu

    "...had the audacity..."  Really?  Isn't this supposed to be a solutions based exchange of ideas platform?  Just copy/paste. What's the big deal?  Or send a link!  Oh no that's right.  Only those who commiserate and wallow in helplessness and anti Apple rhetoric allowed.  Give me a break.  So obvious...

  • by elcpu,

    elcpu elcpu Jan 31, 2015 5:59 PM in response to Philly_Phan
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    Jan 31, 2015 5:59 PM in response to Philly_Phan

    Have a good day, a good month, and a good year but please go troll some place else. You too murray. Here is a good place: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org

     

  • by Philly_Phan,

    Philly_Phan Philly_Phan Jan 31, 2015 6:26 PM in response to elcpu
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    Jan 31, 2015 6:26 PM in response to elcpu

    elcpu wrote:

     

    Have a good day, a good month, and a good year but please go troll some place else. You too murray. Here is a good place: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org

     

    Is that your way of responding when you can't answer the question?

  • by elcpu,

    elcpu elcpu Jan 31, 2015 7:01 PM in response to Philly_Phan
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    Jan 31, 2015 7:01 PM in response to Philly_Phan

    No, it is my way of responding when I don't want to waste my time with you or mmurray any further. Have a great year, get it? 

  • by MegaBigRoad,

    MegaBigRoad MegaBigRoad Jan 31, 2015 7:03 PM in response to E-2043
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    Jan 31, 2015 7:03 PM in response to E-2043

    Unplug your router, wait about 30 seconds, plug it back in, connect.

  • by Philly_Phan,

    Philly_Phan Philly_Phan Jan 31, 2015 7:06 PM in response to elcpu
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    Jan 31, 2015 7:06 PM in response to elcpu

    elcpu wrote:

     

    No, it is my way of responding when I don't want to waste my time with you or mmurray any further. Have a great year, get it? 

    Then why do you keep trolling here?

  • by camjross,

    camjross camjross Jan 31, 2015 7:12 PM in response to Philly_Phan
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    Jan 31, 2015 7:12 PM in response to Philly_Phan

    The first time I reconnected to wifi after installing Apple's wifi config I installed (as part the Apple Enginnering test), hung both my AirPort Extreme and Cisco wifi. I managed to get screen grabs showing all devices and macs were connected to wifi yet no data was exchanged. Logs also caught it. Turning off wifi and back on failed to see any wifi at all. Only a router restart 'fixed' whatever it was and all devices could reconnect. Weird that it happened the very second my ios8 device connected to wifi.

     

    ones and zeroes aside, something happened there, unless you're suggesting it was a complete coincidence? Is that the main issue? Who knows. It happened though.

     

    there's every possibility that the ios8 is effecting routers. Until it's proven either way, maybe less reteric and more open mindness to the various issues many, many of us are experiencing.

  • by khaleesidstorm,

    khaleesidstorm khaleesidstorm Jan 31, 2015 7:47 PM in response to E-2043
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    Jan 31, 2015 7:47 PM in response to E-2043

    I'm also having this issue, but with my brand new iPhone 6 plus. It will not stay connected to wifi after the device has locked, which means I do not get any notifications until I manually check my phone again. It's turning into a massive pain in the ***.

  • by Philly_Phan,

    Philly_Phan Philly_Phan Jan 31, 2015 7:49 PM in response to khaleesidstorm
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    Jan 31, 2015 7:49 PM in response to khaleesidstorm

    khaleesidstorm wrote:

     

    ...with my brand new iPhone 6 plus.

    Take it back.  Why tolerate a defective product?

  • by mmurray47,

    mmurray47 mmurray47 Jan 31, 2015 10:30 PM in response to Philly_Phan
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    Jan 31, 2015 10:30 PM in response to Philly_Phan

    You must be smelling the same stink I am here.  This guy, like many others, signs on to a board to tell others how his "brand new iPhone 6 plus isn't functioning as designed" but he makes no mention of how long he had it, what remedial steps he's tried, wether he even thought about returning it (or tried), wether he tried utilizing his AppleCare, what kind of router he has, where it's located and that "it's turning into a big pain in the a%#" (turning into...) as though to say he actually has let time go by doing nothing while his brand new iPhone doesnt function.  Who does that?  If the wifi disconnects on lock then would he not be receiving notifications etc. on LTE (or does he not have a signal with that either because he lives in a ravine)?  I guess we'll never know!  These people need to try harder than that with the negative propaganda effort...

  • by London Lad,

    London Lad London Lad Feb 1, 2015 1:24 AM in response to mmurray47
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    Feb 1, 2015 1:24 AM in response to mmurray47

    For goodness sake you two. You are just a pair of trolls.

     

    The Wi-Fi bug in ios 8 was isolated and proven by proper testing some months ago. Google wifried and have a read.

    No one had these problems prior to ios 8. Yes sure it is confusing to a layman as any reconnection or re boot clears the bug for a while, but only a while. Stop posting argumentative and misleading rubbish and read and digest the wifried article.

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