i got my iPad Air a few months ago and im quite disappointed with it on the internet side of things ..sometimes at evening time its slow and the blue line sticks on the top and freezes...anyone else found this..i dont do anything except use it for the internet and its 32 gb ...

This is most likely an issue with your ISP, not the iPad.

My wife has not noticed on hers - as Mystic Eddy says most likely an ISP especially as it's at certain times and the evening is the busiest time for an ISP

it could be this..but its really annoying and my old computer that I got this ipad to replace seems as fast sometimes..also some apps are rubbish..im not convinced that ipads are as good as ordinary computers...i would have got a laptop if id know it was this slow at the evenings..i have broadband from bt number 2 option and dont use my allowance up so i guess im at the end of some internet slow line and thats that

Are you using Safari? I get this lots in my iPad. You have to hit refresh to get a web page to load. I've seen quite a few issues relating to this on forums.

yes i am..i do have to hit the reload button ..tonight it was difficult getting in to bbc news website and then ebay sometimes freezes...its really annoying as some websites are fast and others seem to freeze.. the blue line stops and pauses ...so how can the internet connection differentiate them.. some of the apps arent as good as i imagined as well.

Depends what you want it for but an iPad is not really a computer replacement.

And if it's just in the evenings the fault must be with the ISP rather than the iPad itself.

Safari doesn't help. Crashes a lot on the iPad (iOS 7, 7.1 a bit better but still not right). Try Chrome. And clear the cache quite often as that helps a bit with mine.

I find that ever so often with iPads it helps to do the double-tap on the home button then swipe Safari upwards to unload it from memory. When you next open it you then get a fresh instance rather than one that's been loaded in the background waiting for you. You should only need to do it every couple of days or so.

Safari has a few memory leaks on OSX, so I suspect it suffers the same on iOS.

Thanks..but before I can do this what does clear the cache and how do I swipe safari upward mean in practical actions I'm a bit of a novice

Are you running 7.1 on your iPad Air? I've found the recent iOS update has made Safari a bit faster on my iPad Mini with Retina Display.

To clear the cache you need to go to Settings>Safari>Clear Cookies and Data.

To close applications in the "multi-tasking" view (when you've double clicked the "home" button) you just swipe the app window up with a finger until it disappears from the carousel.

Edit: have you tried using a third-party browser like Google Chrome to see how that behaves? The most recent version includes a bandwidth monitor that compresses some features like high res images which would make select sites faster.

thanks..i will try this today..its working fast this morning but its a t night around 8 o'clock it becomes slow...

No problem.

Who is your ISP, out of interest? I find, even with Virgin Media, once America starts waking up the Internet slows down.

Could also be collisions on Wi-Fi, if your neighbours have similar Internet habits. Try with some computer connected via cable. Or with iPad tethered to phone to bypass your Wi-Fi setup.

british telecom..its been quite reliable really...and i tested the speed and it was ok on my computer but at night its definetley slower.i did try to watch iplayer on the ipad and it was a bit stuttery /said someting about lack of bandwith so ive been not using it for that ..thanks for everyones replies im chuffed i have some things to try..

Or switch the Wifi channel on your router to one that is less used. Most people use the default channel 1 or channel 11 settings, so reconfiguring your router to broadcast over a different one such as channel 8 can dramatically reduce interference from your neighbours' wifi.

I think it's more likely to be a problem with BT or your Wi-Fi than the iPad.

Have you rebooted your Hub/router recently? That's always a good idea.

If you still have access to a PC you can download InSSIDer, which will show you how many wireless networks are overlapping and what channels they are using.

I can't get that swipe up to work since updating from iOS 6 to 7 and now 7.1. I double click the home button and the app icons appear but there's no getting rid of them. ??

I find the Chrome browser is far better than Safari on my Ipad Air. It also has all my bookmarks from my pc which is helpful.

Where the window appears above the icon, swipe upwards as though you're flicking the app window away from you.

No problem with Safari or wifi and 4G on my Air.

As mentioned, sounds like a problem with your ISP or wifi settings.

Having just moved from an iPad3 to an Air and my wife is using an IPad2 I have been able to compare all three. The iPad Air loads pages much quicker than the iPad2 or 3 under normal circumstances.

I am also with BT with an average download speed of 9 to 10 Mbps, there are times in the evenings when page loading is slower however streaming video from iPlayer, for example, still works fine. The bandwidth, especially on copper lines, has limitations. Isp's have to manage the amount of traffic on the lines especially at peak times. More and more people are streaming TV and video over the Internet so much more bandwidth is being used now than a year or two ago. In order to allow stable streaming iSP's will limit some traffic over their system and general web browsing is probably one of them.

We have a desktop and two laptops In the house too and they are no quicker than the iPads at loading web pages. As has already been stated, depending on what you do, the iPad is not a complete replacement for a computer.

In my opinion the iPad Air is currently the best tablet available on the market and in your situation I doubt very much that it is the cause of the problems you seem to be having.

Worth buying for apps maybe but if web is your thing Apple is very lacklustre n their support. And Chrome on IOS is little better, being a wrapper for the walled garden Apple web browser engine.


Without doubt it is the most crippling web experience of any tablet OS on the market.

Care to toss us some examples? I mean, without the inevitable mention of not having Flash.

whats flash.. do you have to pay for it. i havent got ' flash player' on my ipad