Comments on: Slow wifi on iPhone 3GS

By: Neerav Kothari

Neerav Kothari — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:13:38 +0000

Hi,

I have a belkin surf n300 router and the only option it seems to let me change is MTU size. its set to 1454. can u tell me whats the best to get proper youtube streaming on a macbook pro, iphone 4 and good download speeds in both?

By: Nabeel

Nabeel — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:23:57 +0000

thanks you actually rockx u r fantabulous my i phone 3g was only showing 15 kbps download but it had gone to 80 kb settngs work great even in Pakistan which i was not expecting

By: Shine

Shine — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:47:39 +0000

super thanks for the post! got my ipad few weeks ago and taking time exploring this, i’m now at exploring youtube videos and noticed it’s very slow and found the solution by adjusting the settings as per your advice! super thanks! more power!

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:52:17 +0000

Awesome! It worked.. I have a generic TPlink router and could not find the exact settings but i found “MTU size (in bytes)” Under “Basic settings”>”Network”>”WAN” and jus to experiment I changed it from the max of 1500 to 900. A video that I had been trying to load all morning (music video), loaded at least 12x times faster with absolutely no lag. I could actually watch the grey bar fill up whereas before I could only listen to the song in fragments.. This really worked for my iPad 2 running 4.3.1 and I might even got slightly lower, 500?, to see what effect it has. But as is it works perfect.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:29:08 +0000

I’ve only run it for a few minutes with the new settings, but it really seems to have made a difference! Thank you so much!

By: a.j

a.j — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:49:12 +0000

pls guide me to set my ip adress from 169 to 192

By: a.j

a.j — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:47:03 +0000

my i pad ip adress keep on changing from 192 to 169 my i pad under warranty my att service people want to sell me service to reset i am not that capable in comuter unless i get proper guidness

By: pUs

pUs — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:00:53 +0000

Many thanks – I had just the same problem when synching offline playlists in Spotify. Lowering the RTS and fragmentation values improved the speed a LOT!

By: Allen

Allen — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:00:04 +0000

Are there ways to make these changes on an Apple router such as a Time Capsule or Airport Extreme?

By: Roy

Roy — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:17:38 +0000

Wow! Your fix is an amazing find. After doing an iOS upgrade to 4.2.1 on the iPad, its wifi internet connection was so slow and unreliable as to be useless. After making your suggested changes to our home DLINK wireless router, the wifi connection was immediately faster and back to normal. I’m not sure what changes Apple did in their OS, but it clearly needs more testing.