My iPhone 5 can't ever find my wifi in my house unless I'm like 5-10 feet from it. I bought the iPhone 5 from Apple's site and my carrier is AT

Question

My iPhone 5 can't ever find my wifi in my house unless I'm like 5-10 feet from it. I bought the iPhone 5 from Apple's site and my carrier is AT&T? My iPhone 3G's wifi was hands down better than the 5's. Apple needs to get their customers the solution ASAP because everyone will blow through their data plans.

Answer 1

Lawrence, I wish it were so simple.  Many of us have tried everything you have suggested and much more.  I have even tried two other routers at home.  My phone connects to public wifi fine - have tried 3 so far with no problems.  Even on my home router, if I remove security, no good.  I read that ipv6 is necessary, and one of my routers does support that, but still no luck.  The phone started out OK, with a small glitch that I though iOS 6.0.2 would fix.  The glitch was slow throughput and failure to connect automatically to known networks, along with dropping the wifi connection when charging and sleeping.  My big problems started after connecting through a range extender at home, but I've chased enough coincindental red herrings to feel that is not the issue.  If it were, then changing my home router would have fixed it, or there is a serious software bug in the OS.  I'm just not going to waste any more time on it.  Hoping a replacement will do the trick, but I've also read that many replacements fail.  Somewhere, I saw that up to 60% of iPhone 5's are having wifi issues.  Can't remember where, but am looking for it.  Meanwhile, ZD Net is reporting on it too.  The scariest symptom I've encountered is that a few times, after resetting network settings, the "Join" button was disabled.  Go figure.