IPhone 5 Wifi issues persist after 6.0.1

I have been having these issues. I am finding certain apps are always slow downloading whereas others download quickly all the time. It is most notable with podcasts where some podcasts take forever to download (always the same ones) whereas others always download quickly. I have my iPhone 4S right next to my iPhone 5 on the same network and, for example, an 80mb Vergecast podcast will take 90 minutes to download on the iPhone 5 but only 2 minutes on the 4S. Both are running iOS6. The Engadget podcast of similar size will download on both in 2 minutes. I have this same thing happening with many podcasts. Ironically when I go on the network in the Apple Store the problem doesn't exist. I do have a WPA2 network at home but even when I turn off the WPA2 the problem persists. I have had the iPhone 5 replaced already five times and it hasn't resolved the issue. Not sure if it is hardware or software - as it's possible the replacements were part of the same bad batch. I don't notice the problem during basic web browsing or emailing which is probably why many users aren't noticing the problem. My wife, for example, is not a power user and hadn't noticed the issue but when I tested her iPhone 5 it has the same issues. I have now tested 4 friends iPhone 5s as well as my own on a total of 5 different wifi networks and the problem persists across all of them. Updating to 6.0.1 has not fixed the issue. It sounds like maybe some kind of DNS issue possibly?

I have the same issue. I think that the iphone 5 doesn't like specific routers, but I just can't pin point what the difference is between the routers. So far, I have tried 5 different routers with WPA2 and 3 of them works just fine while the other 2 have problems. Very weird ....

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