Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on

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Post by rogerbinns » Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

Android doesn't get a pass here either. I have a GSM Galaxy Nexus with the OS directly provided by Google. After the Android 4.1 update wifi is completely unreliable. I work from home so the phone is on wifi most of the time. I usually have to reboot it to get wifi working again, although sometimes turning wifi off and then on works after a minute or so. (This doesn't affect any of my other wifi devices nor this phone with the prior OS version.)

Google have known about it since mid-July https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34942

Re: Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on

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Post by batista » Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 11:04 PM UTC

hackerchic wrote: post #18

Does anyone else feel the iOS6 has more drawbacks than previous updates?

Like having ONE issue, the Maps, and everything else being better?

Re: Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on

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Post by tomflack » Wed, Sep 26, 2012, 11:42 PM UTC

batista wrote: post #22

hackerchic wrote: post #18

Does anyone else feel the iOS6 has more drawbacks than previous updates?

Like having ONE issue, the Maps, and everything else being better?

Says he in a thread about wifi problems? I'm regretting upgrading and not because of the maps. My work wifi has become completely unreliable.

Re: Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on

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Post by fpgeek » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 2:24 AM UTC

Much as they've made other mistakes, lingering WiFi issues are not necessarily Apple's fault. There are all sorts of things that can go wrong.

For example, I've had routers be unstable with some particular devices because of specific encryption settings. Ironically, I learned about that chipset problem while I was getting ready to throw dd-wrt on the offending router in frustration. I've had access points give super-slow connections to new devices until the AP was rebooted. And on and on.

WiFi works most of the time, but when it doesn't it usually isn't easy to figure out what (or even where) the problem really is.

Re: Apple's iOS 6 Wi-Fi problems linger on

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Post by CrankyBear » Thu, Sep 27, 2012, 5:29 PM UTC

baddox wrote: post #13

untog wrote: post #3

I think that by now, everyone should have learned the lesson to not buy anything the instant it comes out. It seems like every first batch of hardware has issues, and every major software revision requires bug fixes. The very simple solution is to wait. I always wait for the first major patch to OS X before upgrading, and a couple of months before new hardware. While I don't have the latest shiny gadget, my life is a…

I think another simple "solution" is to realize that these issues are probably way rarer than the press seems to indicate. I got my iPhone 5 on release day, and haven't had any of these problems. Same with my iPhone 4 and "antennagate." Maybe I'm just fortunate to avoid these issues, but I've seen no reason to not upgrade immediately.

You know, I thought it wasn't that common either, but then I kept running into lots of people, especially with iPhone 4s phones and WPA2 AES APs, who did have these kind of problems. Something really is off here.