Reluctantly I upgraded my iPad2 to IOS6.1 today. It seemed great until my wireless network kept crashing. I called the cable company, reset everything and voila network is fine again.
Read the news and watched a video embedded into the story and blammo- my entire network drops...completely. What I noticed is the iPad wireless icon disappear as soon as the video loads and the internet stops on not just the iPad, but my Vortexbox, PC, iPhone, XP-3, etc.
I have a Netgear WNDR4000 Wifi Router, actually a nice piece of hardware. It comes with what I thought was an annoying gimmick app called "Netgear Genie"- I ignored this when I installed the router and set everything up custom. Since my network keeps crashing when I load youtube I have been running the Genie, resetting my modem manually and been able to restore the network.

Is this a side effect of the war between yOUTUBE and Apple? Is Google so Evil they would mess with an endusers network? Is apple quality so bad right now that their Bonjour broadcast level network design is killing internetz fer fun<---lolz


Just thought I would post my findings- now to convince my kids not to use youtube on the iPad.

If Apple and YouTube were at war, you wouldn't see YouTube on Apple devices. YouTube isn't available on Roku because they can't agree on a price but iDevoces and AppleTV have it.

Try streaming with all of your other computers and other wireless devices, but NOT the iPad. If it does the same thing, it may be the power supply for the router- this happened with my 2Wire router and when I got the replacement, I tried using the old router with the new wall wart and it worked fine. My symptom was the router going through the power cycle if I used my laptop's WiFi, but everything was great if hard-wired. It started suddenly, so it was a bit surprising. Another time a router kacked came immediately after doing an update that came as a message from ATT. I don't mean it came hours or days after the update finished, it came at the moment the update finished and the router finished powering up.

Yes, it could be the update that caused it.

I wait at least a week before I install these so I can read about any potential issues. I have not read anything on youtube and network issues. But I do believe that 6.1 did "tweak" some wireless stuff.

My iPhone 5 with 6.1 is working just fine with the Youtube app.... I know it's not an iPad but just my ".02".

There is way of getting youtube on your roku, add Video Buzz channel to your Roku, via it you can link your youtube account, have access to you stored videos, and search youtube. As long as you have it to Public and not Private.

I did say "embedded youtube video". It was a youtube video in a news story, i was not streaming, i wasn't watching kitten videos, and i know my way around the web. My network is solid, mostly wired except for a few devices- this glitch nuked my network. I completely lost the network all the way up to the modem.
Happy to hear other people had success with the update and all but this was a specific set of events that crippled my services-

Check Netgear's website for a statement about this problem. As of late December, they had a BIG disclaimer up warning about wifi problems with all iDevices running OS v6.0.1 specifically affecting Netgear hardware.

Supposedly, v6.0.2 fixed major wifi probs caused BY Apple. Make sure you're up-to-date on all iDevices and your Netgear firmware.

I've had several of my clients call with wifi problems over the past 2 months, most linked to Apple iDevices and non-Apple wifi routers.