[OT] Excessive Wireless Traffic from iPhone running iOS5

[Ian Wood]

Synving wirelessly to her Mac or syncing wirelessly to iCloud? iOS5 devices only sync to iCloud when on WIFI so turning of WIFI would give exactly the effect you saw.

Ian

On 3 Nov 2011, at 17:20, Pete wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago, I noticed an occasional  huge slowdown in internet
> access from home.  Whenever this occurred, it was obvious from the lights
> on my wireless router that a huge amount of wireless traffic was happening.
> 
> In true old-fashioned trouble shooting mode, I tried to figure out what
> might have changed in any computer setups in my home.  The only thing that
> I could come up with was that my wife upgraded her iPhone to ios5 round
> about the time this started happening.
> 
> From the circumstances, I believe this is happening when the iPhone is
> syncing wirelessly with iTunes on my wife's Mac laptop.  That only happens
> over WiFi and when the phone is charging, both of which are the case when
> this wireless traffic problem occurs.  I verified this by switching off
> WiFi on the iuPhone last time this happened and sure enough, the wireless
> traffic stopped.
> 
> Have any of you iPhone users experienced anything similar to this?
> Obviously there has to be WiFi traffic for the iPhone to sync, but there
> isn't that much data on my wife's iPhone so I'm not understanding the
> extreme wireless activity.
> 
> Meantime my Android phone has been wireless syncing perfectly for
> months.....
> 
> Pete
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