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iPad 3 wifi signal hopeless
ihatemarmite
01-11-2012
Bought an iPad 3 some months ago with a view to using it to watch movies etc in bed. Disappointingly it only has full signal in my lounge though, v near the router. I live in a flat so all on one level and bedroom is only about 50 foot from the router (down a passage and round 1 brick wall). It has only 1 bar or none in the bed area so impossible to even connect.
Netbook has no problem with signal in the bedroom but its screen is awful so don't want to use that.

Is the iPad wifi signal generally weak? Anything I can do to boost it?
BT has offered me a decent deal on Infinity: would their router be stronger than my Speedtouch one? I dread BT but needs must...
thedrewser
01-11-2012
I have same issue. My iPad (3) doesn't seem to connect very well when in the bedroom. I bought a wifi repeater for £27 which is plugged into a socket on the landing and now I simply choose that as my wifi network when upstairs and it works a treat. Easy to set up (once I followed the instructions and wasn't second guessing them).

To be fair, my iPhone sometimes loses connection upstairs too although my wife's iphone doesn't, nor her laptop, so I don't know whether it's the devices or router.

Anyway, I've solved it.
grumpyoldbat
01-11-2012
I think it's a combination of router signal strength and the iPad combined. We swapped over from one router to another we had, and we get full signal strength throughout our place, even several rooms away. We're using the most recent BT (non Infinity) HomeHub.
ihatemarmite
01-11-2012
Thanks, both of you.
I may (gulp) move to BT Infinity soon. I've had so many run-ins with BT CS...
Don't have a BT socket in the bedroom, wonder if I can get them to not only move the master socket (they've agreed) but to put in an aux socket in there in case the problem continues.
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