Q: iPad Air 2 WiFi Issues
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Nov 10, 2014 12:47 PMby Occidental,Yup - for me too, Angry Birds was the problem on two different routers in two different locations. Other big apps don't create the problem (see above). If I quit AB after playing, I don't have problems. Simple (so far anyway). This happens when AB is the only other app running besides Speedtest or when three other big appas are running.
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Nov 10, 2014 3:53 PMby Alain1954,I replaced my router by the Airport Extreme 802.11ac. No more problems. All stay connected solid for now. They better be because I told Apple if they did not stay, I was bringing the iPad and the router back. I have a week to make sure it is solid all the time. I will report later.
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Nov 10, 2014 6:18 PMby maxima2012,Just wanted to add another iPad Air 2 wifi failure.
Purchase iPad Air 2 Saturday and been dropping wifi everyday.
I have several apple devices that work fine. I have called Apple support and opened
a case. They had me try several things which didn't fix anything. They don't know of
any issues with iPad Air 2's. I pointed them to this site but they wanted to replace with
a new one. Well at this point i told them that i will return it to the store i bought it from
to either get another one - which won't correct anything or get my money back.
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Nov 10, 2014 7:03 PMby FXDLRIDERNY,I just had a 3 hour discussion with a senior Apple advisor.
She has taken all sorts of data and input from me including the nature of this thread and others,
as well as step by step re-enactments, settings changes, restores, resets, etc...
It is being elevated to Engineering.
Hang tight.
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Nov 10, 2014 7:33 PMby curmudgeon1938,At Apple, as at most Companies, information flows upward, but seldom dosnward,
In this case, that may be a good thing. It appears that there are several problems here. The common thread appears to be a problem with wireless N connectivity. In some cases the problem appears to be related to the wireless chip set used in the wireless access point (router.) In other cases it appears to be related to a specific APP.
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Nov 11, 2014 12:16 PMby rds1961,I too have been experiencing many wireless connection problems with my Air. However, one thing that seems to be working for me is to set the channel number of my wireless router to something other than its default channel (channel 6). Starting with channel 1 I found that channel 1 and 3 made no difference, channel 2 seemed to work for a while before connection problems started again, but channel 4 has been problem free after 2 days of use. I haven't tried channel numbers above 4.
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Nov 11, 2014 1:18 PMby swiss-mike,This worked for me. I set up a static address and suddenly all issues were gone. Thanks for the suggestion. I use a TP Link router (old, so only 2.4 abg), although iPad wasn't connecting to my Time Capsule either. It did connect in hotels though. Quite a mystery and a waste of time.
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Nov 11, 2014 3:38 PMby newman918,Ordered my Ipad Air2 online and when the box arrived it looked like UPS drove over it. thought my Wifi issues were a result of this but glad I am not the only one.
Ipad Air2 128GB Wifi and Cellular
Using an Airport Extreme 802.11ac and an Airport Extreme 802.11n (4th Gen) and get constant drops when streaming
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Nov 11, 2014 10:20 PMby Hulalahifi,I think the wifi problem on my iPad Air 2 is all gone now, no more connection dropping or slowness anymore. I think it's turning on the "ask to join networks" option and doing a hard reset on my wifi router solved the problem. I also changed my wifi router from bridge mode back to the default mode.
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Nov 12, 2014 8:17 PMby Zender99,You need to make sure you disable N from both your 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz bands. Settings should be:
2.4: B/G
5.0: A
Have a reddit thread going on this exact issue that I have linked back to this thread.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/2lzc0h/ipad_air_2_wifi_issues/
