WPA2/3 shouldn’t actually have any impact on speed.

First deactivate Wifi6 (AX) in the router menu under WLAN. There’s a button there. The iPad may have problems when a Wifi6 signal is sent. But if it wasn’t a solution for me, I would rather throw away the old iPad.

If that doesn’t make a difference, you can try the following:

Is it possible that there is only 2.4 GHz WiFi in the hotel? And at home the iPad also works on the 5 GHz band. This is actually faster, but there may be problems.

You can take a test at home. It’s a little more complicated, but then you get security.

In the router’s WLAN settings, set the federal administration to individual. Then give the 2.4 GHz WiFi a different name. Attention, all devices that have previously connected to the 2.4 GHz will then lose contact. But you can undo it again. Then connect the iPad to the new WiFi and see how it works. Then reconnect to the “old” WiFi, which should only be the 5 GHz WiFi.

I would be interested in the results.

Your laptop screams AX 😉 It’s a shame that you use so much “old” stuff, which then slows down everything else.

Before you do this with the separate SSIDs, please install the mySwisscom app on the iPad, log in and then do the various speed tests. Then we will know more.

I also have an iPad (5th Gen.) 2017, Wifi 5+Cellular and notice that especially when opening emails (in Apple Mail) with a lot of text and images, e.g. advertising from companies, the Ringli appears with “LOADING.. .” for a long time until the email is opened.

This happens on the iPad in my home WiFi from the IB3. When I connect the iPad via mobile data, the same email opens immediately.

On my iPhone 13, all emails open immediately, whether via Wifi 6, Wifi 5 or mobile data.

I am always connected to my iPad and iPhone at home via WiFi 5GHz. Wifi 6 on or off makes no difference. The speed test on the iPad and the iPhone always shows almost the same values: 240 down and 50 up.

@FrancescoM: Hi Francesco, here is an interesting Wifi problem for two users. Maybe you can have it analyzed to see whether there is a problem on the router side or with Apple.

Can, but doesn’t have to. Sometimes a bug in a device with a certain chipset/configuration prevents the router from functioning properly. That’s why the first thought is usually not the right one 😉

Maybe you’ve already written it, but how far is the router from where you use the iPad? And are there walls between the router and the iPad?

The 2.4 GHz band is massively slower, but the range is significantly better. The 5 GHz is massively faster, but not as great in range. And the speed drops very sharply in the edge area. And one thing you shouldn’t forget is that even if the router still brings the signal to the end device, the end device is already too weak to bring the signal to the router. This can also lead to problems. Only the customer doesn’t see it because the device shows that it is receiving a signal.

I understand that you did the speed tests with the mySwisscom app on the iPad. What happens if you do the tests at the same place with a mobile phone and the mySwisscom app? Same result?

I am still convinced that the problem is not on the IB3 side. The WLAN in the IB3 is a high-performance chipset from Broadcom with their standard drivers that is widely used worldwide. And Apple also (still) uses Broadcom for WLAN and Bluetooth in its end devices. There are no known hardware problems with the WLAN with the IB3. Unfortunately, I only have an iPad Pro 11″ from 2018 or 19. And everything works perfectly there.

4 meters is actually no problem. Not by a long shot. A wall shouldn’t be an issue either, unless it’s a very special wall, but that’s probably not the case.

Can you log in to the router menu, then turn on expert mode, then select Diagnostics on the left, then select WLAN in the middle on the right, then scroll to 5 GHz and then click on “Additional 5GHz WLAN DEBUG information”? I’m interested in RSSI per antenna and transmission power. By the way, I’m assuming that you haven’t reduced the transmission power in the router menu, right? This would be found in the WLAN menu item on the left.