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

[Jason Reid]

Interesting that TKIP support is an issue - some of our older WAPs with
TKIP only are having issues with iphone/ipads only (wintel/androids ok)...


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Thomas Jackson <thomas at thomax.com.au> 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-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Bevan Slattery
> Sent: Monday, 7 January 2013 10:26 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> 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
>
> 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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Jason Reid
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