Jathom
New member
I landed here today because I had this problem a few weeks ago but still wanted see if there was a specific fix. In my home we have Apple TV, 2 x ipad2, 2 x iPhone 6, iPhone 3GS, and a pair of ibm laptops. I noticed my one of the iPad 2 started crashing during games and safari so I started troubleshooting. What I found interesting was that if I was streaming content like movies or music, podcasts, video clips, the device didn't crash of buffer... However, I noticed all the crashing was associated with any action that send and received data over the network simultaneously. So I started looking at my network. In the end I upgraded my wireless router and crashing reduced significantly. I use my iPad 2 and iPhone 6 all the time so they get a lot of work. My iPad 2 crashes were 2 or 3 times per hour in a single continuous session and dropped to maybe 1 or 2 times per 12 - 15 hour work day. I'm not sure what it is but some of the older wireless routers don't seem to work too nicely with Apple devices. On that same old Router I had, we had to restart it at times because the some devices would see the Apple TV for AirPlay and others won't. They were not seeing each other on the same wifi network. With iCloud, iCloud Drive, music sharing and so on now our networks have to handle a lot more uploaded data than in previous generations. Where the focus was almost exclusively on download speed and stability we now have to consider upload. So with all the syncing taking place it is well worth looking at if the devices become unstable when downloading only as in streaming or mostly when engaged in intense 2 way data transfer activities. I'm not saying it will work for others or there isn't a device problem but it's something to look at. Apple being Apple, their devices might demand specific things of older networking devices in terms of throughput or security that these routers just can't deal with.