Q: iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems
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Apr 21, 2015 10:21 AMby gadgetadam,All 3 of my bluetooth devices are less than 2 years old.
The Bose speaker does have an 1/8 stereo jack. When the Bose speaker is set to receive it's input from that and not bluetooth the iPad disconnects from that device over bluetooth and audio plays over the 1/8 stereo jack with no problem. THAT'S how I have to listen to music from an external speaker is using a cable.
I remember seeing your posts a while back and willing to try anything I shut off any Apple device in the house(iPhone, Apple TV, another iPad, Son's iPod)with no changes. I'm willing to dance naked on my front porch holding my iPad above my head if I think that would help, no not really but I thought about it.
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Apr 21, 2015 10:34 AMby Riddick187,NO changes unless your Bluetooth is off.. it just keeps falling on the Bluetooth unit itself. I would try buying a new unit at the store. You can take it back and get your cabbage back LOL.. Well the speaker is sitting next to it. Unless you need the speaker 10 feet away then I'd just stick with the cable. One less radio transmission/ radiation!!..... your body needs to absorb LOL... I try to remove as many connections to wifi/Bluetooth as I can. If it can use a cable. I use one... Less interference from devices.
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Apr 21, 2015 10:53 AMby Riddick187,One other thing I did notice was you had a keyboard hooked up. Is that also connected by Bluetooth? So when you are streaming music you have the speaker connected and you have a keyboard connected to Bluetooth? It could be a combination of both of those units. Have you tried removing the keyboard and streaming the music to the speaker and see if it works okay? The keyboard is old? Maybe it's messing the speaker up...
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Apr 22, 2015 1:33 AMby old_chap,
Very useful! In the same room as router speed remain stable at about 45mb, but moving around it went up & down like a roller coaster. Fortunately none of the really bad areas are causing a problem and it might be due to interference (in the kitchen a lot of electrical appliances)Something I remembered from work (telecoms) a client was complaining about really bad wireless, but only in evenings. We did loads of tests & found they had low voltage lights in all their rooms. It seemed that the transformers hidden in the ceilings were causing the problem, and of course they only had lights on when it got dark
I noticed something strange about the tests, it showed download at 7.08mb yet Speedtest showed 35.78mb (and the sweetspot graph was showing about 45mb)
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Apr 22, 2015 8:45 AMby janesca54,I had no trouble with the wifi connection until I upgraded to 8.3 Now I have wifi dropout on my ipad 2 and also on my husbands ipad 2. Have tried the reset network settings, to no avail. The wifi drops out whenever it feels like it. Might come on after a few minutes or it might take a few hours. Extremely annoying and inconvenient.
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Apr 22, 2015 9:08 AMby wobbly_bob,Please
janesca54 wrote:
thanks for the reply, I have seen that 'option', I shouldn't have to go through the aggravation of a restore, but thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate the response.
Please make sure to come back here & let us know whether or not that worked
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Apr 22, 2015 2:27 PMby don_wan,Well, always had wi-fi drop outs since upgrading from ios7 and no upgrades have sorted my 4s yet , but a first this morning! After restarting as usual to temp fix the wi-fi, on restart I had the greyed out enable wi-fi button as others have reported. Never had this before so can only conclude the "fix" in 8.3 has made my phone worse. Well done Apple.
