iPhone 5 wifi

IvanDobskey · 5 Dec 2012 at 22:44

What's with the wifi on the iPhone 5? Mine is extremely patchy. It seems to work well for a while then just slow down to a crawl? Is there a design / software issue? Or is my unit faulty?

magicroundabout · 5 Dec 2012 at 23:40

nothing wrong with mine. speedy as hell

Xee · 6 Dec 2012 at 11:09

Reset your network settings on your iPhone. If its on your home wifi that your having problems with your iPhone and the reset on your phone did not help, resetting your router can also help.

IvanDobskey · 6 Dec 2012 at 12:23

Cheers for the suggestions. Tried this and it didn't seem to help. I'm out Xmas shopping near an apple store on Saturday so may drop in and get my phone swapped out.

monkeyspank · 6 Dec 2012 at 12:31

mine was patchy like yours on 2.4ghz (not 5) until I flashed my router with custom firmware.

Gibber · 6 Dec 2012 at 17:35

Are you on iOS 6.0.1? Try upgrading to that if not. I'm pretty sure that iOS 6.0 and a specific issue with the iPhone 5 caused issues with WPA2, whereby the connection would slow to a crawl or not connect at all, if you haven't already tried that then it may be worth a shot. Personally I never suffered these issues but I have noticed others who have suffered this issue. If you have no luck with that then like others have suggested try updating your router firmware.

IvanDobskey · 6 Dec 2012 at 20:38

I'm currently on iOS 6.0.1 and no difference. Wifi at work seems a bit quicker but I get disconnected for no reason at random moments.

Xee · 8 Dec 2012 at 09:47

Did you actually reset your router to factory default? Not just turn it off and on. A combination of this and resetting all network setting on the iPhone 5 (General > Reset > Reset Network Settings) and using WPA2 only for wifi security fixed it for me.