iPad Air 2 WiFi Issues

Someone reported that a drink 855l works, and that is an n900 router. I tried a dlink dir 510l travel router last night and it held a solid connected (it's an ac750 router).

I noticed something odd this morning - I do appear to hold connection better if I keep Bluetooth turned off. Last night I appeared to hold a connection for over 3 hours while the iPad slept - much longer than usual - and my only change was to turn off Bluetooth. It looks like Bluetooth also turns off airdrop. Not sure if it was a fluke, and it looked like I did not lose wifi until the moment I woke up the device - I had push notifications up to 10min before I woke it up.

That was me that has the DLink 855L. I have the DLink here at my office, and replaced my Linksys EA4500 at home with an Asus RT-66U. As of right now everything is working great. But as I said before, its not right if people have to go and replace their Linksys routers. Its just not an option for everyone. Either Linksys or Apple need to figure it out.

My experience with Linksys has been less than good. It is not Apple's job to make sure that everything it makes works with what others - it is the responsibility of the manufacturers to be sure they update their firmware to play nice with others. Linksys could care less, in my experience.

Since most of you are talking about a new iPad Air 2, I would strongly advise you to call Apple Support and discuss this with them - it's free for 90 days.

Thanks for letting me know. Seems like a good move and I'm glad things are more stable. If you could report back when you get a chance, maybe after the weekend then I'll be ordering the Asus early next week.

I Have same issue. Did restore reset, all the things Apple told me to do. Nothing works except wifi off and back on or airplane on and off.

Had exactly the same problem with a new iPad Air 2 dropping WiFi after x hours inactivity. Also have a Linksys E4500. Replaced it today with a Netgear Nighthawk X4 R7500, problem has gone away now.

Also had crappy performance on the Linksys on 2.4GHz, also gone with the Netgear.

Thanks for this - interesting it worked for you. I had tried n-only on 5GHz with no luck, and I don't want to go to a-only because that will restrict my other devices, some of which actually need all the bandwidth to perform nightly backups to my local NAS drive - its an 10x difference in effective speeds (versus theoretical speeds) between the two.

My ipad has wifi issues with a Linksys EA4500.

Instead, connected to Fastweb router (Technicolor TG582n) is operating normally.

I hope that Apple will release an update as soon as possible.

Are you seeing how many of those with problems are using Linksys routers? Might be a clue?

You're right. I think Apple should better test these routers...

Routers reported to be dropping connections

Linksys EA500

Linksys EA4500 802.11n N900

Linksys EA3500 802.11n N750

Linksys E4200 802.11n N900

DLink DIR-355

Verizon FIOS Actionec Ver F 802.11g

Linksys E4500

NetGear WNDR3700 802.11n N600

NetGear R7000 802.11ac

DLink DIR-655 802.11n

Routers reported to keep connection

Asus RT-AC66U 802.11ac

DLink DIR-855L 802.11n N900

Apple AirPort Extreme 802.11ac

Mine is an Apple Extreme and Im having the same issues!

I am using a Linksys EA4500 router as well and am having the exact same issues as described with my iPad Air 2. I have tried everything from using a static IP address for my iPad to reconfiguring all of the network settings. I contacted Apple today and they seem to be unaware of the problem. They escalated me to a higher level tech support specialist (good customer service by the way). I sent her a link to this thread and she read through the whole thing. I am hoping this will bring it to their attention a little more. I have an appointment tomorrow at the Apple store to have diagnostics ran on the iPad.

Thanks for consolidating. If you based your Actiontec listing on my experience, I actually think that is OK. I have a bit of a unique setup, but am running a test just on the Actiontec that held a connection for 2 hours this morning - I need to check when i go home and will report if that connection stayed active and that should clear the Actiontec. This is an important test on my side because I need to figure out if my broken chain is with my EA4500 acting as a bridge, the Actiontec router, or both, before deciding if this should be the excuse to upgrade to ac...