[AusNOG] Apple iPhone5 Wifi connectivity problems - faulty Apple wireless chipsets?

[Bill Walker]

Regarding someones post earlier, antennas can make a huge
difference, on the iPad mini at the back of my house I get full signal
in portrait and 1 bar in landscape which makes it unusable, whereas on
the iPad 3 I get full in any orientation. 

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:53:36
+1100, Thomas Jackson wrote: 

> A colleague was talking about this the
other day - apparently they had some
> iPad 2 units working perfectly
until upgrading them and their new iPhone 5s
> wouldn't connect at
all.
> 
> In the end, he found out that TKIP support (which is what
their APs were
> configured to use) seems to have vanished, and AES was
the only supported
> cipher. After swapping over, suddenly everything
started working again.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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>
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [2]] On Behalf Of Bevan
Slattery
> Sent: Monday, 7 January 2013 10:26 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
[3]
> Subject: [AusNOG] Apple iPhone5 Wifi connectivity problems -
faulty Apple
> wireless chipsets?
> 
> Hi everyone happy new year.
> 
>
I've tried to post this twice to the Apple Support Forums but they seem
to
> not like it.
> 
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4679816
[4]
> 
> I was wondering if anyone on AUSNOG is having the same iPhone5
Wifi issues
> and if so, please contact me off-list.
> 
> Could be
nothing, could be something. The fact Apple keep blocking my posts
> is
a bit bizarre too. Maybe they didn't like the tag shame-on-apple? :)
>

> Ta
> 
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