Poor WIFI on 3GS

Just got the new 3GS and am impressed except for the wifi is poor compared to my original iphone. It latches on fine and displays the wifi signal as full yet when i go to safari or email etc it just sits on the loading page for ages whereas my old iphone would load immediatley as im on a 5mb connection speed.
Anyone else had this or is it a hardware issue?

It's the opposite for me, i get poor (like 500kbs) throughput on my airport extreme at home but anywhere else such as a neighbors linksys (3-4mbs) or my wireless at the college (one time I hit 8mbs) I get fast data rates as tested by the speedtest app. My home laptop and desktop get 6mbs.
But really, I would never have noticed if not for reading these threads. I almost wonder if speedtest app doesn't like apple routers or something as I downloaded a free itunes download and it really wasn't that slow.
Here's hoping for apple airport and/or iphone firmware!

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It's the opposite for me, i get poor (like 500kbs) throughput on my airport extreme at home but anywhere else such as a neighbors linksys (3-4mbs) or my wireless at the college (one time I hit 8mbs) I get fast data rates as tested by the speedtest app. My home laptop and desktop get 6mbs.
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Here's hoping for apple airport and/or iphone firmware!

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Well lo mates
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Anyone tried something similar tried searching the forums but without any luck
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I see the same poor wifi connection when comparing to my old laptop and to my Galaxy S4. I updated the driver but it did not help (think it was the same one). I have a week left for no hassle returns and if this cannot get resolved I think this unit has to go back.
anonymousscreen wrote:
I have just purchased a Yoga 2 11 and find that connectivity is poor (zero to two bars) and unreliable (occasionally reverting to a yellow exclamation point) in my favorite thinking chair. I get reasonable performance at the same location from other machines including a T420, a Nexus 7, and an IPad. After reviewing some community forum fixes for the presumably Yoga 2 Pro, I have checked to ensure that I have the most recent driver; that I have turned off bluetooth; that I am not using protected sharing; that windows is not managing the wifi Plus I have installed on the order of 33 windows updates (a pretty large number considering this is right out of the box on the first day of availability!). Am I missing anything or is this a problem related to something unfixable like the antenna design? Other potentially connected diagnostic information is that some sites e.g. zillo do not load quickly behave very smoothly, even in locations with more than one "bar" of wifi connectivity. Thank in advance for any input.

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Hi All,
I've had my 2012 Mac Mini (the basis of my home music recording setup) about 9-10 months and always had poor wifi connection. Download speeds are terrible and it can take hours to download a few MBs
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Another point to note is that the signal isn't trying to penetrate several thick walls, the Sky hub is in the next room less than 10 metres away with a direct line of sight through 2 doorways.
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The only thing left for me to try is running a long ethernet cable from the sky hub to see how it is wired. This I am going to do today when I'be been to buy a cable as it's not convenient and unworkable to strip down my home studio to move it to another room.
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Although every other device in my home works absolutely fine. These include Windows 8 laptop, Google Nexus, LG G2 Android Phone, iPhone 4s, 2x iPod 4th Gen, Xbox 360, PS3, LG Smart TV, iPad Air. Note these aren't all on at the same time!
It did connect using the iPhone 4s as a hotspot to test which is why Apple insist there is no problem with the hardware, although the WiFi doesn't pick up any other local networks available for example my neighbours of which there are around 8 I can see on other devices.
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Out of interest does anyone think getting an Apple Airport Express, connecting it to the Sky Hub but connecting my Mac to Airport rather than the Sky Hub directly would work? In effect creating an isolated connection from the other devices in the house? Maybe they will take to each other in a nicer way. I'm a bit confused by what I can do with the Airport and want to afford splashing out on different routers etc. Trying to get them to work on Sky I can just feel the headache!
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Yes I tried this manyfold. But did not work. Reading on, I took Tesserac's advice. Shut down router and computer.
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Regards form Curacao, Dutch Caribean.
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Dear anihilist
Welcome in Lenovo forums
Please try to update the driver using the below link
Link : http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031976
Please let me know once you done
Thanks
Alaa
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Message was edited by: cmcconkey

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