Originally Posted by dabears

Like I said try any coffee shop that offers free wifi. Also you said you are running 2 routers? That also can contribute to your problem. Turn one them off and just run one of them alone. They may be causing some interference.

2 story house on the water. One router is for the house, which is directly plugged into the modem. The other router is located a good distance from me. It's purpose is to provide enough signal to reach the boats on the water. More of a "booster" if you will. The booster is running on G. Your interference idea makes sense, but why is the iPad the only one experiencing these problems and not my iPhone, MacBook etc.? I will try turning the house router off and see how that effects the marina router. Thanks for the help! Much appreciated

Originally Posted by iRockSteady

Originally Posted by dabears

Like I said try any coffee shop that offers free wifi. Also you said you are running 2 routers? That also can contribute to your problem. Turn one them off and just run one of them alone. They may be causing some interference.

2 story house on the water. One router is for the house, which is directly plugged into the modem. The other router is located a good distance from me. It's purpose is to provide enough signal to reach the boats on the water. More of a "booster" if you will. The booster is running on G. Your interference idea makes sense, but why is the iPad the only one experiencing these problems and not my iPhone, MacBook etc.? I will try turning the house router off and see how that effects the marina router. Thanks for the help! Much appreciated

Wifi connection is strange that way. And what are the odds you got another lemon from Apple? Somehow I have a difficult understanding that.

Does the ipad connect to other wifi hotspots outside your home?

I had the same problem as well, but was able to resolved it by using 2 routers.

Apparently the iPad2 doesn't really support the 2.4GHz (needs a 5GHz instead) but iPhone and other devices need it. So I end up setting up 2 routers with different settings. Now all my devices can share wifi simultaneously and no more disconnecting on my iPad2.

Google: how to set up dual band wifi

Hope this helps =o)

Originally Posted by Chun Yu

I had the same problem as well, but was able to resolved it by using 2 routers.

Apparently the iPad2 doesn't really support the 2.4GHz (needs a 5GHz instead) but iPhone and other devices need it. So I end up setting up 2 routers with different settings. Now all my devices can share wifi simultaneously and no more disconnecting on my iPad2.

Google: how to set up dual band wifi

Hope this helps =o)

That's weird. My apple extreme is set up as 2.4 ghz and my iPad works. I think it might have something to do with the routers brand. Long time ago I had issue with first gen iPod touch with linksys brand router, but when I switch to a different router my iPod touch then stopped having issue. So go figure, right!?

Also noticed that alot of your wireless house phones operate @2.4ghz range and anytime the wife or even neighbor were on the phone I would intermitenally lose wifi signal...

It is always a good idea to make sure that the own wifi is not on the same channel as someone else's.

Under windows, InSSIDer is a great and free tool to analyze the surrounding networks, so one can quickly determine on which channels the other wifi's operate.

But if it is possible, then the 5GHz network should be preferred over 2.4GHz, as it causes less interference with other devices and also has a larger range of channels available.

Mine was working fine until the other night when I let the battery go dead. I'm thinking it's coincidence but I'm not totally convinced it is. I've done all the above steps suggested but when my iPad goes to sleep it no longer pings my router when I wake it up and try to access the wifi. I turn wifi off then on , it starts working fine again. This issue is not just on my home network and didn't start until a full battery drain. My Omnia used forget my network at least twice a week or do what my iPad is doing but it was a known Windows Mobile issue. My Inc refused to work with my Belkin router and changing routers was the only way I was able to get wifi for it. My iPad worked flawlessly until the other night. My first iPad( screen broke on it) acted like this one is doing now until I upgraded to 4.3 but this one is on 4.3.1. I'm apprehensive about upgrading to 4.3.2 until I read more than just a bugs thread unless that is the only way to solve it.
I agree with the above post about cordless phones. My wife has one upstairs on the opposite end of the house from the wifi router,which is downstairs and it shuts the wifi down to everything when she uses the phone, thankfully only about once a month if the other cordless phone is on charge when she needs the home phone.
My wife has the same model but with 4.2 on it and hers is trouble free on wifi.


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I just upgraded my wireless router's firmware yesterday and left my ipad 2 idle.. checked after 2 hours, still connecting to internet with no issues. no need to switch to airplane mode on and off any more... Before it was taking 10 mins of idle time to lose the wifi connection.

My router is Belkin F5D8235-4 and upgraded its firmware from 2.01.04 (default one when I purchased it more than a year ago) to 2.01.09 which is the latest release as of 7/14/2011..

I kept the original default settings for wireless access - still connecting to G&B&N..

Only change I did was switching from auto channel to a random one I picked.. (I picked wireless channel as 8 and extension channel as 4) thinking many people are keeping that on auto..

Over 24 hours passed, slept and woke up - ipad2 still connecting to Wifi with no issues.

I was lately having similar disconnects on my IMAC and Macbook and they are fixed as well together with Ipad2.

But this does not fix the problem on Apple's end. I still have similar disconnect issues at my friend's house. We can not force everyone to upgrade their router firmwares for Ipads..

Apple help us out here.... I left my same comment on apple discussion board as well..

I'm not exactly sure what all the previous problems were that had been discussed, as there is more than one possibility for a WiFi disconnect/reconnect problem. Mine has been with internet connectivity of the iPad2 tethered to the iPhone4. When the iPad comes out of sleep, the two cannot re-negotiate a full connection. The link between the two might be established, but the DHCP entries for gateway and DNS get lost and can not be re-assigned without restarting the whole connection process - which entails turning off WiFi and tethering modes on both the pad and the phone, then turning them back on again (in the proper sequence). This being with the native tethering protocols - which I have signed on and am paying for through Verizon.

I also have MiWi installed and, just yesterday, discovered the MiWi OnDemand service and installed it on both units. It's a Bluetooth operation, and is FAR MORE RELIABLE than the WiFi. Still, I need to resolve the WiFi issue so that I can use that which I'm paying for (Verizon's tethering plan, at $20.00 a month). I haven't yet investigated using Verizon's/iPhone/iPad tethering through Bluetooth yet (frankly just thought of it right now. Boy, writing this stuff out can really help the thought processes sometimes.)

So, even with iPads 4.3.3 and iPhone's 4.2.8, there still is definately a problem with all this. It isn't bad enough for me to chuck either the phone or the pad, but annoying enough for me to take the time to write about it. Hopefully there's some more recent discoveries and info by knowledgeble folks here.

Thanks for reading.