Comments on: How to Quickly Fix iPad 3 Wi-Fi Reception Problems

By: Shalik Anas

Shalik Anas — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:55:03 +0000

Gr8 man this worked thanx mate

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:43:17 +0000

Thanks Shahid! I use the static setting at home now and it works fine.

Should I revert back to DHCP elsewhere?

By: Shahid

Shahid — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:12:27 +0000

My iPad was having the same problems. There is some issue with the DHCP ip address conflicts. It used to work perfectly one router and then fail on another one. My router is configured to use addresses between 192.168.1.100 through 192.168.1.149, and that I typically only use the first 10 to 15 of these with all the various networked devices in my house.

Following advice from another forum, I simply set a static ip address on my iPad of 192.168.1.120
Subnet mask set to 255.255.0.0,
with the gateway and DNS servers at 192.168.1.1.
(Your Gateway and DNS may be different or similar.

I was having constant issues before. Since assigning a static ip , I’ve had no trouble whatsoever.

By: Richard II

Richard II — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:41:08 +0000

Works fine for me! Back to 100%. I was going to contact Apple. Didn’t have to
Thanks!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:46:49 +0000

shweps, just tried your recommendation and it appears to have worked for me so far. I got sick to the back teeth of constantly rebooting my ipad 3.
Never again will i buy another apple product. My 3GS, 4 and 4S along with various other ipods are now being rehomed!!!!

By: shweps

shweps — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:16:51 +0000

I’ve been reading through a lot of advice, and I can’t believe this is such a big issue for a brand that is supposed to be so user friendly. I tried resetting the iPad, that didn’t work. Neither did turning off wifi and resetting that after a minute, nor did ‘forgetting’ the network and reconnecting. However, what did work was turning off ‘Location Services’, which is in Settings, under ‘PrivaCy’. After doing that, wifi is back online!!! just watch out as some websites prompt a ‘turn location services on’ pop up, and you may turn them on again without realising it, if you’re not paying attention. Thank you for the advice, and good luck fixing any issues you have.

By: Natasha

Natasha — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:25:51 +0000

Doesn’t work , this simple miracle is simply stupid , all it does is erase the network you connected to. Then it won’t show up in your available network until you sit beside your router and enter your password . And you are back to the beginning : poor to nonexistent connection. Had better speed with phone modem back in 1996.

By: k.

k. — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:33:06 +0000

I got my new ipad 3 or so few days ago and wifi doesnt work at all it first took me an hour to get the wifi wrok then it worked for few 2 day and now again not. Wifi on my phone is fine but on ipad it finds it but wont connect. Ugh any help?

By: Kara

Kara — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:35:21 +0000

My generation 1 iPad works just fine because it is not upgradable to ios6.
Ever since I updated to ios6 on my iPad 2 Ive had the exact same issues. Very very frustrating since it worked perfectly before the software update. And, yes the forget this network and rejoin is a very temp fix at best.

By: Reiscyt

Reiscyt — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:03:03 +0000

It’s a basic function and user should not have to worry about that kind of issues. Just like for example using Flash Player – or in iPad case not using it and not being alle to use some major services.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:49:14 +0000

Why in the world if I spend $600+ for a new product should I immediately have to spend time troubleshooting it? Why does anyone put up with that?

By: don

don — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:40:41 +0000

I am on my second ipad Same issues dropping wifi constantly, Every other device (laptop apple tv etc) work perfectly. Called Apple no support. Are they not aware that they have a problem Frustating to say the least

By: Dane

Dane — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:40:28 +0000

I have tried so many things to fix the slower-than-slow problem after I got my new netgear router. This is he first to work! Thank you so much!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:05:35 +0000

I have tried all this things and it doesnt work. It used to connect now it doesn’t. I don’t even see the wifi sign with iPad on it. It only connects to other wifi connections but not the home’s wifi.

By: Subby

Subby — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:07:23 +0000

Made in china. Thats why it doesn’t work. No QC at Foxconn.