iPhone 5 - WiFi problem

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Anyone else having wifi problems? Mine works fine most of the time. But every now and then there is just no throughput. Still full signal and connected but nothing is being uploaded or downloaded it just sort of freezes. This causes apps that use the internet to hang even if its started working again.

iPad 3 (iOS6) and iPhone 4 (iOS5-something) and iPhone 3Gs, continue to work fine and always have on my wireless connection. So anyone get this issue? I have tried ganging DNS go 8.8.8.8, which kinds makes it work again, but eventually at some point it just completely fails again. Anyone else get this? Apple going to release a fix any time soon?
 
Yes, massively annoying.

I'm hoping beyond hope (and touching wood) that the latest update seems to have fixed it, I noticed a few pauses today but reset my network settings and it seems ok at the moment.
 
Issue seems to be Wifi encryption, the iPhone 5 even with iOS 6.0.1 update just can't handle it. Or only for short periods of time.

*edit* - Cant even login to Apple discussion forum to complain!

*edit2* - Changing router wifi encryption from WEP/WAP2 to WAP2 only seems to have helped. Will test it out for a bit.
 
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I had the WiFi problem today on my two day old iPhone 5. Running iOS 6.0.1 on all my devices. iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPads etc all work on this network fine, but iPhone 5 just wouldn't play ball. The network has multiple access points on different channels, and using both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands - iPhone 5 wouldn't work on any of the them.

So I did some googling and tried all the various suggestions:
From looking up the MAC address of the WiFi chip in my iPhone 5, it's an Apple one (apparently some people have Intel ones).
Setting a Client ID on the iPhone made no difference.
Setting HTTP Auto Proxy made no difference.
Turning bluetooth on made no difference.
Resettng network settings made no difference.

Then I noticed that it was showing a self assigned 169.254 IP address... so I set the iPhone 5 to use a manually configured Static IP rather than DHCP, but still with the router as the DNS server, and boom it works perfectly. Change back to using DHCP and it won't connect. So it's something up with DHCP on the iPhone 5.

I then updated the firmware on the router and now the iPhone 5's DHCP works perfectly. Of-course you could argue it both ways:

  • All other computers, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPads etc work perfectly on this network... so it's the iPhone 5 at fault.
  • The fix was updating the routers firmware, so it was something wrong with its DHCP server.
Odds are the problem was a combination of both at fault!
 
Changing to static IP only works for a little while before it starts sticking again. Anyone know how to force a BT Home Hub 2.0 to update firmware?
 
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