Comments on: iPhone 5 Wi-Fi Problems Fixed By Manual DNS Settings

By: Will

Will — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:54:21 +0000

Glad to hear it worked!

By: Kermit

Kermit — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:21:13 +0000

My iPad 2 wifi connection has been terrible since 6.0 and 6.0.1 upgrade. Low signal strength, dropped connection.

I changed the internal DNS address to open dns (208.67.222.222 or 208.67.220.220) and used admin settings to change my home router wireless mode to only accept 802.11g. It fixed everything, signal strength improved from 1 or nothing to maximum, Netflix works properly again, games stopped dropping connections, web pages load much much faster.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:46:59 +0000

Find it funny that the only networks my iphone5 seems to have trouble with are ones running off an Apple Airport router….

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:55:05 +0000

I love you. Sweet

By: Geo

Geo — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:45:15 +0000

Web performance and Speedtest have always appeared to run ok on my iPhone5. My problem is the app store performance is TERRIBLE on wifi. If I’m connected via LTE app/downloads blaze through quickly. The moment I turn on wifi, they slow to a crawl. Has been that way since I got the phone and it’s repeatable on a number of different wifi networks.

The above fix did not work for me.

By: Junior

Junior — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:22:03 +0000

Great! I just bought the iPhone 5 and I was wondering I just did (the wifi does not work!!!) After read your post and used your suggestion, my iPhone 5 IS WORKING at my wifi network =)
Thank you!!!

By: DADICER

DADICER — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:15:29 +0000

LOL the suggestion from LancasterTheWiz worked for me. When my IPhone 5 arrived it would not connect to my wifi no matter what so I did the manual thing as a work around.

Just now reset my network settings and after the phone rebooted was able to auto connect to my wifi without issue.

Suggest everyone gives that a try just to see.

Thanks LTW!

By: LancasterTheWiz

LancasterTheWiz — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:07:42 +0000

Easy Fix
RESET YOUR NETWORK SETTINGS IN GENERAL>RESET>RESET NETWORK SETTINGS

PHONE WILL CUT OFF, REBOOT AND TOGGLE YOUR WIFI OFF FOR ABOUT 10 SECONDS, TURN BACK ON AND YOU WILL BE GOOD TO GO..

By: JLC

JLC — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:57:09 +0000

Seems to have worked on my home router (Netgear). I was having issues with all youtube videos, most wouldn’t start others would stop after a short bit. My solution before was switch to LTE was luckily is fast at my house. I might try this at work but since my office has a 10Mbps connection and LTE at my office is generally high 20s I’ll probably just stick with LTE.

By: JCT

JCT — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:41:38 +0000

This worked. I couldn’t stream video before. Even middle quality youtube videos failed to load on my 20mbps connection. However, on my iPhone 4 with same connection I had no problems. Apple’s only suggestion to me was to drive 2 hours to an apple store.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:41:16 +0000

Well i have the iPhone 5 32 gb and im having some serious wifi issues on my home network! Funny thing is my wifes iphone 5 16 gb is in my other hand working like a charm on wi-fi! Very frustrating! Any suggestions on this one???

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:09:45 +0000

Not so much for me. still pulling only 2-3mbs, while my laptop pulls 10mbs off the same router.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:46:24 +0000

Thanks – this worked like a charm!

By: Ronnie s

Ronnie s — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:34 +0000

Worked for me

By: Sugu

Sugu — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 05:19:49 +0000

After setting DNS servers manually as suggested, WIFI speeds on my ipad 2 (running iOS 6) improved quite a bit. Thanks