Hi Peter, Here's my anecdote for you consideration. I'm not sure if any conclusion can be drawn from it but it could indicate some sort of slowdown in the Find My iPhone service. I have 6 iCloud devices in the house and had previously set up all of them with location services and Find My iPhone. The devices include an iPhone 3gs, a MacBook Pro, 2 iPads, and an Apple Server. On all previous occasions when I checked on the devices, provided that the device was switched on it would promptly report its location. This included computer devices that can only determine their location using wifi. Find My iPhone would eerily place all the device on the map at my current address and would send them a text message and a chime on demand.
Reading about your plight I though I would just verify that all the devices were locatable. On starting up the iCloud website none of the devices was showing locatable. Just to verify I sent each of them a message. The message was queued and marked as pending but not sent. To try and get thing moving I opened up the iCloud page on each and double checked the iCloud Apple ID and pressed OK on the account name and password, without actually changing anything. As I write this three of the devices have since received the message and are displayed as located on the iCloud web site. A fourth device (an iPad) received its message but is still displayed on the iCloud website as having its location service off even thought the device shows its location service as on in its settings tab. So things do not seem quite as responsive as normal and my configuration has not changed other then applying the regular updates to the OS of each. As I say, not a scientific or exhaustive study, but something to consider. Regards, Carlo On 24/05/2012, at 20:52 , Peter Crisp wrote: > Hi folks, some of you may recall my previous posting re issues with getting > my kids' (3 of them) iPod Touch's being able to be "seen" using the Find My > iPhone app and also recent occurrence with my wifes new iPad in the house > (WiFi only) not being able to be "seen" by Find My iPhone and Facetime being > inoperative in my house on the wireless network. > > My suspicion is something to do with my home network. When I run the "Speed > Test" app (using the Macbook, iPhone and iPad), I get download speeds of > 1.2Mbps and Upload of 0.21Mbps - repeatedly. My location in Mandurah is > restricted to ADSL1 unfortunately so maybe this will be 'my lot' till the NBN > gets into my area. > > The reason for my suspicion is this. On a recent holiday to Albany (December > 2011), we were in a motel park which had WiFi which we had all devices > connected to and this was the first time that Find My iPhone and Facetime was > able to locate the iPod Touch devices (we didn't have the iPad at that > stage). And since we've got back home, there hasn't been 1 instance when the > iPod Touch's or the iPad (in recent times only) have been able to be "seen" > when checking Find My iPhone. Always the red dot! > > Both mine and my wifes iPhone 4/4s respectively have been able to be located > but that is because of their 3G connection capability so I dismiss those > devices in this comparison. > > The 3 iPod touch's report as devices in my listing of devices in Find My > iPhone but always a red dot - as they're not able to be located. > > What is odd is the iPod Touch's and iPad all have WiFi access in the house to > search the web and download app's etc, but no go with Find My iPhone/Facetime. > > Is there some further testing I can do to analyse this? Is there some port > setting that inhibits the vital connection to be made perhaps? > > I have a D-Link DSL-G604T in bridge mode to a Time Capsule for my wireless > network in the house, perhaps there is a setting there to check to open it up. > > Thanks for any assistance offered. > > Pete... > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
