- Joined
- Dec 1, 2007
- Location
- Near Toronto Canada
Hello friends.
Despite my advanced age, I live at home (*sigh) and am tech support for my family. My mother's iPad 2 has been having very poor WiFi performance of late, and I can't figure out why.
The iPad 2 was purchased new in December 2012. I assume it sat in a box for 1+years before that. It's been used daily since then, but still holds a good charge to this day.
When we first got it, in 2012-mid 2013, we lived in a house and had a crappy built in wifi router in our modem. Wireless performance (on a 30mbps ISP plan) was decent. Streaming video always ran smooth. No real complaints.
Then we moved to a building in mid 2013 and things have started to deteriorate. Using the exact same modem/router thingy, we were having very poor performance. Videos would take minutes to start only to freeze up, things from the app store just plain wouldnt start downloading, etc. 2 Months ago I got a rock bottom-end HP win8 laptop. It too was getting poor wifi performance with the current equipment. So we upgraded to a TP-Link Archer C7 WiFi router (5db antennas). Now my laptop gets decent (tests at 30mbps on speedtest.net) WiFi performance, but the iPad still struggles. The same youtube video starts in 5 seconds on the laptop, but takes 1 minute to start on the ipad, only to stutter.
I notice there are a crap ton of other WiFi networks in my building. I used inSSIDer to see what channel everybody was on and switched to an unused channel, but surprisingly this WORSENED performance. InSSIDer suggested I move to another channel, which I noticed was quite heavily populated. Nonetheless performance is good. But not on the iPad.
What is going on here? I'll buy an Airport Extreme if you guys think it'll make a difference. My friend has one and he practically prays to the thing...
Despite my advanced age, I live at home (*sigh) and am tech support for my family. My mother's iPad 2 has been having very poor WiFi performance of late, and I can't figure out why.
The iPad 2 was purchased new in December 2012. I assume it sat in a box for 1+years before that. It's been used daily since then, but still holds a good charge to this day.
When we first got it, in 2012-mid 2013, we lived in a house and had a crappy built in wifi router in our modem. Wireless performance (on a 30mbps ISP plan) was decent. Streaming video always ran smooth. No real complaints.
Then we moved to a building in mid 2013 and things have started to deteriorate. Using the exact same modem/router thingy, we were having very poor performance. Videos would take minutes to start only to freeze up, things from the app store just plain wouldnt start downloading, etc. 2 Months ago I got a rock bottom-end HP win8 laptop. It too was getting poor wifi performance with the current equipment. So we upgraded to a TP-Link Archer C7 WiFi router (5db antennas). Now my laptop gets decent (tests at 30mbps on speedtest.net) WiFi performance, but the iPad still struggles. The same youtube video starts in 5 seconds on the laptop, but takes 1 minute to start on the ipad, only to stutter.
I notice there are a crap ton of other WiFi networks in my building. I used inSSIDer to see what channel everybody was on and switched to an unused channel, but surprisingly this WORSENED performance. InSSIDer suggested I move to another channel, which I noticed was quite heavily populated. Nonetheless performance is good. But not on the iPad.
What is going on here? I'll buy an Airport Extreme if you guys think it'll make a difference. My friend has one and he practically prays to the thing...
