Slow wifi with iPad

I have a slow wifi connection. Belkin says its an Apple issue. Suggestions.

Slow meaning downloading a newspaper that used to happen in less than 20 seconds, now takes over 2 1/2 minutes or longer and sometimes so long that a download error happens.  Everything is very slow now.  I used to get things to download in seconds, or at least under a minute.  It's been like this since I upgraded (seems like I downgraded).

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    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
     Cheers, Tom

  • Slow wifi on iPad Air after converting to iOS8

    I am experiencing painfully slow wifi response on my iPad Air after converting to iOS8.  I tried disabling the WiFi Networking setting under System Services and even did a "Reset Network Settings".  All to no avail.

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