Q: iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems
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Sep 24, 2014 7:14 AMby mogulmedia,Turning off Wifi Networking hasn't solved the problem on my iPad Air though so far my iPhone 6 is behaving. Thing is they cut out at random so I'll need more time to see if that has solved the issue on my phone.
My iPad still doesn't like iOS8 though
Come on Apple this is ridiculous. I agree with those that can't believe this has been released to the general public. A potentially widespread problem you'd think would have been detected before release...?
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Sep 24, 2014 7:11 AMby SidVics,I have the same exact issue. Happens with my iPhone 5 and iPad Air... every time I hook these up to power outlet, my entire home network comes to a stop (iDevices + PC + Mac lose internet connectivity in spite of full router signal strength). At first I thought charging cable was forming some kind of signal warp to interfere with router but you may have a point about the iCloud sucking all bandwidth, leaving little for anything else such as browsing or even downloading email.
I'm surprised though not too many people have this problem
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Sep 24, 2014 7:16 AMby Scottyboy99,Whilst that is a workaround for some it shouldn't have to be done. Apple rushed ios 8 to co incide with the iphone 6 released and didn't QA test well. Even those reporting feedback during QA get ignored anyway as apple just does its own thing. Why they couldn't allow the iphone 6 to run ios 7 I don't know. It would be an easier life for all of us and also them. If they want to add new features do it in incremental point updates. My wifi works great on iPad third gen. but 5s it is odd. It never drops out but is slow to detect AirPlay now and does drop speed on random occasions often then recovering with no input from me or necessitating a reboot. This is in 2.4 band whilst 5 seems flawless . Very odd behaviour. Something which was not present in ios 7 where wifi and all the phone features worked more or less perfectly
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Sep 24, 2014 7:24 AMby mogulmedia,That's another point I forgot to mention as well as the Wifi dropping out randlomly. All idevices are not picking up one of my two Airplay devices at all.
For devices that are mobile and so heavily focused on being connected, this is not good work from Apple. It's the first thing they should ensure is working in my opinion. Keep your health app until you've got the basics working first eh?
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Sep 24, 2014 7:27 AMby Scottyboy99,Yep wifi is the life blood of the iphone in my eyes. I couldn't give a monkeys about the health app they seem to be drooling over. I am a lazy so and so and just want good wifi. New features all well and good but not when it breaks or hampers existing functionality like wifi, bluetooth, home sharing , AirPlay etc
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Sep 24, 2014 7:29 AMby NikCh,Tried this - had to reset network settings but it seems to work - so far, so good; only tried it for a short time though. My other workarounds have been OK for several days.
Now three workarounds that seem to work (for me on my iPad Air) - independently - either:
Link via 2.4GHz or
Link via 5GHz fixed channel 46 or
... turn off WiFi networking as above.
In fact, using Ookla, the last one seems to give more stable and faster download and upload speeds
