ios 8.1 WIFI not working!

I have also followed all the recommended steps. Including making sure my router is powered on and what wifi button on the IPAD is on. Even though I am sitting here with my MacBook logged on to the network my IPAD cannot find????? Very frustrating with all the new updates and then find APPLE with problems like this. The IPAD worked fine in the past. I always used it while traveling and logging in at public wife networks. In the past the IPAD has no problem finding the network now, it never does find a network. I am relegated to using 3g even in my own home I cannot log onto my network because IPAD can't find it????

Dennis

denctanner47@icloud.com

I have also followed all the recommended steps. Including making sure my router is powered on and what wifi button on the IPAD is on. Even though I am sitting here with my MacBook logged on to the network my IPAD cannot find????? Very frustrating with all the new updates and then find APPLE with problems like this. The IPAD worked fine in the past. I always used it while traveling and logging in at public wife networks. In the past the IPAD has no problem finding the network now, it never does find a network. I am relegated to using 3g even in my own home I cannot log onto my network because IPAD can't find it????

Dennis

denctanner47@icloud.com

Did you recently increase the number of devices in your home? If so have you increased the available IP addresses given out by your router?

Nope! Also tried resets. Airplane mode on and off, and wifi on and off. shut off iPad several times. Even tried changing the screen brightness, turning on and off blue tooth and other settings. Nothing works. Next step is to return iPad to Apple to check it out. It is two years old and never had a problem finding wifi networks before????

Any chance you can check if the iDevice can get another wifi - for example at a cafe?

(just trying to narrow it to WiFi in general or to your network) - thanks

Thanks for the suggestion. I have been able to connect to public wifi networks in the past with no problems. I have always been on my home network when working at home. When traveling I would use public networks. The last couple of months the iPad has not recognize either public or home networks. I have tried all the suggestions on websites. This problem with the wifi networks started about the time my battery life diminished by 1/2, the same time I upgraded to the new software. I have eliminated all notifications on iPad and iPhone, quit all unnecessary applications, turned off FB, turned of app refresh, turned off the auto screen brightness..... I have read somewhere that adjusting screen brightness affects the IPAD recognizing networks?????? I will make several more attempts this week to find the solution. It could still be user error.....🙂

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Sorry if you have tried this before -

1. Turn off "Last location update" in Find iPhone - in settings

2. Change the security on your home network to Open (temporarily)

3. See if the connection problem is solved -

Of course then please re-implement your security

I Tried to back up my phone on computer, I also already reset my setting on everything, I did everything and it's nothing happens still doesn't have Wifi please rescue me

There's a few technicalities to take in to consideration. I've struggled myself to get my iPhone 6 to connect stable to a Wireless N 5ghz connection, but lets remember this, yes Wireless N 5ghz is faster than Wireless G 2.4ghz, however the limitation is the fact that you lose frequency bandwidth, thus, the closer you are to the device emitting the 5ghz signal the higher chance of a connection.

I recently upgraded my entire home network, new router, gigabit ethernet cables and a Devolo PowerLine adapter. My router supports both 2.4ghz and 5ghz frequencies simultaneously, this means it will constantly switch to the best connection on the fly through a single gateway, but the problem I have is I wasn't sure when it switches all I knew was sometimes when upstairs (router is downstairs and Devolo is upstairs) my wifi would become sluggish. So I decided to give each frequency, Wireless G 2.4ghz router, Wireless N 5ghz router and Wireless G/N 2.4/5ghz Devolo, seperate SSIDs, I then understood what my iPhone connects to in which area of my house and what provides the strongest connection.

The Devolo can not transmit both frequencies at the same time, I had mine set to 5ghz, this is where my wifi was sluggish upstairs, it connected but wasn't strong, having tested all possible connections on all frequencies, it's evident that Wireless N for the most part struggles to provide a stable connection when at a distance from the main source, even with the Devolo relaying the frequency it wasn't enough.

Now, I have set the SSID of the Wireless G 2.4ghz router, Wireless N 5ghz router and Wireless G 2.4ghz Devolo to the same and set the channels on both devices to auto. What this now effectively gives me is multiple hotspots in my house that will switch between access points and frequencies to whatever the strongest signal is in that area without losing connectivity.

In conclusion, don't bother with Wireless N 5ghz on Apple devices, i'm not sure on this but I believe Apple devices are locked down to a Wireless N 5ghz (20mhz) channel width, meaning wireless G and N will only use the same channels available which causes traffic. Wireless N 5ghz (40mhz) channel width, on the other hand, should see a greater improvement in connection stability.

Hope this helps!

So after owning a 4S for a couple of years I upgraded to an iPhone 6. Brought it home and then noticed the wifi would freeze. No access to the LAN. Very, very annoying. It still thought it was connected and did not switch to cellular data, but I could not do anything that needed wifi. So that means I would get no email and no alerts from my pager app I use for work. It would do this seemingly at random times throughout the day. The only solution was to toggle wifi on and off, or reboot, to get it working.

Everything else on the network was fine: 4 laptop PCs, a PS3, PS4, iPad 2, an Android phone, and 2 iPhone 5s' running 8.1.3. No issue at all with any of those. Only my iphone 6's wifi would lock up.

All the while I'm sitting in sight of my WAP, which was an old Linksys wireless G model connected to an even older Linksys router. No signal strength issues. So I decided, what the ****, maybe I should upgrade the wifi. I replaced the ancient Linksys stuff with a new Netgear Nighthawk R7000 (which I wanted to do eventually anyhow to get better speed).

It's now been a few months and (knock, knock) absolutely no issues at all. I'm connected to the 5GHz band all the time and it never freezes. There was something very specific to the iPhone 6 and that old wifi gear that just did not get along. Like I said, my kids had two other iPhone 5s' with exactly the same OS as my 6 that had no trouble at all. Only the iPhone 6 wifi was freezing. The new Netgear did the trick somehow. Not sure if this is helpful to anyone but I just wanted to share my story.