Wifi bug on iphone 4s ios 8.0.2

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Wifi bug on iphone 4s ios 8.0.2

After updating my iPhone 4s from IOS 7.1.2 to 8.0.2 i noticed my pings really high when gaming on my PC.

Phone and PC on the same network. I'm using a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router. Phone on 2.4g connection while PC on 5G connection on the same router.

When playing counter strike global offensive i noticed my pings being really high so i turned off wifi oh my iphone and to my surprise the ping started to go down to 30~ and as soon as i turn the wifi on and give it a few secs and it goes up to 250+ ping.

I never had this issue before. This is a major bug on ios 8.0.2. now i cant game on my PC and have wifi turned on my phone at the same time.

Anyone else experience this issue? any fixes?

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iPhone 4S, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 27, 2014 7:19 AM

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sstelter

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Sep 29, 2014 2:46 PM in response to Erazor07

My symptoms could be related.

Once I installed 8.0.2 on my iPhone 4S it started knocking my Windows laptops off my WiFi network, and when I disable WiFi on the iPhone 4S the problem goes away. (Here's the thread: iOS 8.0.2 on iPhone 4S crashes WiFi network)

This is a serious issue. It's bad enough if it doesn't work, but if it interferes with other devices it's completely unacceptable.

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Erazor07 Author

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Sep 30, 2014 4:16 AM in response to sstelter

If i am seeing high ping from my device then its highly likely to cause problems to other connected devices on the network as it looks like its killing the bandwidth somehow. Its like its ddods attacking the network.

This is definitely related as i'm sure you too will see high ping if you load up an online game. Apple need to address this, how do we contact them directly? I had no luck trying to get a support e-mail address so posting here was my last resort.

Maybe i can contact a tech site who can publish an article to get some attention!

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Silvono

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Sep 30, 2014 12:00 PM in response to Erazor07

I updated my 4s to 8.0.2 and instantly my wifi greyed out and now battery life is approx 12hrs, it was easily a full day before. Does anyone know is there going to be a fix for this? One day I had a perfect phone, the next, well lets just say its not much use. The only thing changed was the software update. Please help!!!

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Erazor07 Author

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Oct 1, 2014 1:29 PM in response to sstelter

I fixed my problem by resetting network settings on the phone reset options. Have you guys tried this?

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Oct 7, 2014 6:56 AM in response to Erazor07

Have the same problem. Tried the network reset - did not fix the issue.

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