New Ipad 4th ios 6.0.1 connect lost wifi game center facetime
I ditched my old ipad that had wifi issues when I updated from 6.0 (which worked flawlessly) to latest ios. I gave up after working on every fix possible from Jan 2013 to April; forget network, unique ssid, changed encryption from WEP to WPA2, and on and on. Nothing worked, so I sold it.
I just set up a new ipad, came with ios 6.0.1. Tested game center last night - SAME issue, "connection has been lost, trying to reconnect..." - but it never does. I can not finish one game -works for about 4-5 minutes. I'm ready to send this back and just buy a windows tablet. It appears nothing has changed with these ios wifi issues.
Granted, I have an older router Linksys wrt54g connected to an old pc running xp sp3 - but my son's new macbook pro has NO wifi issues, neither does our 3 iphones, or 2 itouches. Seems it is just the ipad that has chronic wifi problems.
Should I bother trying to get a new router and testing?? But really - why should I have to spend more money to get this ipad connecting solidly to wifi without dropping the connection?
Please don't recommend doing an update to latest ios - that created a whole slew of issues on my old ipad, battery drain, etc.
Hi there ebbrat,
There are a couple of articles that I would recommend you take a look at. The first goes over the recommended Wi-Fi settings for iOS and OS X. The second has some troubleshooting steps specifically for Wi-Fi on iOS.
iOS and OS X: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199
iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1398
Hope that helps,
Griff W.
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