Wi-Fi being extremely slow. (Only sometimes!)

[Bubbleawsome]

Hey guys, I posted this on tom's, but that made me remember why I moved here. :|

Anyways, my problem is the fact that my school iPad 2 is getting really slow internet at my house. The network's router is a 2010 airport extreme, fully updated. We pay for 30/3 and get something like this.

Gaming PC, wireless, 45/4 ping 23
iMac, wired, 30.25/3.03 (really, it's freaky. Never more, never less) ping 13.

Now here is where it gets weird.
iPad has 2 setups and three speeds.
School, 30/20, ping ~30
At house, but before it got slow. 16/4, ping 30
Here at house, but now 0.16/4, ping 997

What's going on? Any ideas?

 

[Fardringle]

Start with the basics. Have you tried completely deleting and recreating the home wireless profile on the iPad? I have seen cases where the profile gets corrupted on an iPad and all kinds of strange things happen.

Also, are any other wireless devices having speed issues at the same time that the iPad does? If other devices have problems, does it happen at various times of day, or only at certain times (or only when the iPad is connected)?

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Start with the basics. Have you tried completely deleting and recreating the home wireless profile on the iPad? I have seen cases where the profile gets corrupted on an iPad and all kinds of strange things happen.

No, I haven't done that.

Also, are any other wireless devices having speed issues at the same time that the iPad does? If other devices have problems, does it happen at various times of day, or only at certain times (or only when the iPad is connected)?

The gaming PC and an iPhone. (Not mine.) They don't have issues besides the general slowdown right after work and at other busy times. 20/4 is average then. The iPad ranges from 2 to .16 it seems, but it only holds the 2 for a split second.

 

[Fardringle]

OK, try deleting the wireless profile, then. Just tell the iPad to "Forget this network". That will make it so you can connect to the home wireless as if it was a new network and might fix the problem. If not, please let us know so we can continue troubleshooting.

 

[JackMDS]

Switch off all the other Wireless clients and try the iPad on its own.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

This stinks if interference to me, are you using a 2.4 band? With it being an ipad2 its certainly 2.4 so check around and see what you might be running that could interfere, bluetooth, cordless phones, security systems, baby monitors, microwaves and tons of other stuff can CRUSH the 2.4 spectrum.

Im wondering if your other devices might be running 5ghz

 

[DeathRayLoveMachine]

I'm also voting for signal interference. Have you tried a different channel? Do you have multiple access points?

 

[Fardringle]

Interference was my first thought as well, which is why I asked if any other devices are having issues. Since everything else is working fine on the wireless connection, then that points toward a problem with the iPad itself. The iPad works fine on other connections, so it's probably not a hardware issue, which is why I suggested recreating the wireless profile for the home connection on the iPad.

 

[alkemyst]

Also make sure the iPad is running on the right channel. For some reason my old iPhone always wanted to run on channel 2.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Do you have Comcast? It could be this:
http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.ph...s-on-comcast-cisco-e-series-and-others.69006/