How to repair wifi on ipad? Can it wear out?

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Dfrrice Author

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How to repair wifi on ipad? Can it wear out?

I'm having problems with the wifi on my ipad 2. Can it be repaired? If so how?

iPad 2, iOS 8, No problems before I got IOS 8

Posted on Nov 17, 2015 3:26 PM

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razmee209

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Nov 17, 2015 4:10 PM in response to Dfrrice

If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won’t connect to a Wi-Fi network - Apple Support

If Wi-Fi is grayed out or dim on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points - Apple Support

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rccharles

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Nov 17, 2015 6:41 PM in response to Dfrrice

No problems before I got IOS 8

Oh...

A significant number of folks reported problems with wifi and ios 8.x. You may want to upgrade to ios 9.x.

Look through this thread around pages 90 to 130.

iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems

on the minus side.

ios9 wifi not working

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ossible solutions. A lot of these revolve around making any communication change resets the software enough to make wifi work for awhile.

Here is the best description I have seen of the problem.
https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifried-ios-8-wifi-performance-issues-3029a164 ce94

by Mesmaeel2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYeYLUn9nj0

change DNS address to Google free DNS server. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

by Alicool.Rizwa. None of these were a perminant fix. Might work for awhile.

forget and rejoin network.
renew lease
Restart my router
Change my router
Change the channal of my router
restart iOS device.

by tunaflyby

To Enable QoS:

Go to your router settings,

Advanced -> Setup -> QoS -> Enable WMM

Enable both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz

Change what band your router uses. Many have found 2.4Ghz works best.

by karirissanen "setting of the wifi channels for both the 2.4 and 5 Ghz radios to 11 and 161 respectively"

by elcpu "disable Air Drop and Bluetooth"

This set of solutions if for Mac OS X, but the underlaying wifi software is the same on ios, so they may work too. http://www.iphonetopics.com/osx-yosemite-wifi-issues/

byjrc* "Turn off Settings > iCloud > Sign Out, then sign back in. Also try turning off Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive, and for good measure, Settings > iCloud > Photos > iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream."

by jrc* "I made sure Wi-Fi was on a clear channel 1 (basically using iStumbler and picking amongst 1,6,11; see http://www.adriangranados.com/blog/how-not-find-best-channel-using-mavericks-wir eless-diagnostics-tool) and also changing the AirPort to 802.11n-only (default is 802.11b/g/n), but neither helped."

by usa1z06 "Netgear Nighthawk X4 (AC2350)." been working for 3 weeks.

by blueman09 "ASUS RT-AC68R"

by Linux_Freak " My home router is a Netgear WNDR4500 (N900) with dual-band Wi-Fi. I have DIFFERENT SSID names for each band,"

For repeatly rejecting passwords, by bobwild "Turn WMM Power Save on and same old iPhone wifi problems. Disable it and viola'. it's been a long road but it's good to finally be at the end of it."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6546549?start=1485&tstart=0

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