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iPad WiFi in UK.

Much of the discussion here has centered on U.S. users wifi problems. But some iPads must by now have reached these UK shores - so any UK experiences anyone ?

Good, bad, or indifferent ?

Mac Mini, iPhone 3G and 2G, iPod Touch, iPod Nano., Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Apr 29, 2010 9:15 AM

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Costy

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Posted on Apr 30, 2010 1:56 PM

Everything is all good mate. Had mine 2 weeks, I'm on Sky's top package which is pretty slow anyway, will be transferring to virgin's 50meg in July. I use a Time Capsule as a router, so connection is good, and I've got a big house and can take all around it and the connection stays strong.

Hope this helps.

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Jun 3, 2010 6:04 AM in response to tommclaughlan

Well, that's interesting what you say about connecting after 15 minutes. I have the exact same thing happen with my Access Point at home.
Connecting to my main router is always fine, but several devices including my iPad, seem to have to wait around 10-15 minutes before getting a proper IP address from my Netgear Access Point.
Interesting.

Jun 3, 2010 12:49 PM in response to igmackenzie

I was also having disconnection issues (Linksys Wag200G) , just changed it to WPA2. Too early to tell if it has fixed the disconnection issues, but it seems faster! I'll report back about whether or not the disconnections are fixed.

Jun 13, 2010 1:42 AM in response to tommclaughlan

To Tom McL. ** I seem to remember seeing advice elsewhere to go to Settings/Safari on the iPad, and turn off "AutoFill" in cases of problems with public wifi logins.

Jun 13, 2010 2:55 AM in response to Dan Mitchell1

Hi Dan - Thanks for that. Having played around with various settings, what seems to work is:

1. Go to Settings / Safari
2. Turn off autofill
3. Set Block Pop-ups to OFF
4. Set Accept Cookies to ALWAYS

This seems to work fine but, even so, it's a bit odd because the settings on my iPhone (and which is able to connect) are: Autofill 'on', Block Pop-ups 'on' and Accept Cookies 'from sites visited'...

And everything I've written applies to one branch of Starbucks, using the BT Openzone network. I'll see what happens elsewhere...

Hopefully this will get clarified/sorted sometime soon!

Thanks again.

Jun 14, 2010 6:41 AM in response to tommclaughlan

Only the "autofill" set to 'off' is the usual advice. For many users Pop-ups being set to 'off' would be the norm anyway. But I've never seen any advice on the setting of cookies.

Jun 19, 2010 9:12 AM in response to igmackenzie

I am having this problem too with my iPad. It's been working fine on the home network for two weeks and now for some reason can't access the internet. Router is fine, several other devices on it. It's assigning an IP address starting 169 to the iPad and no DNS or router address.

I've rebooted, done a firmware update, logged onto another free wireless service to check the iPad is working, renewed the lease, everything I could think of and that Apple support suggested.

How do I set up a static IP address on it to get round this problem? If I enter in static info it just defaults to the DHCP info again. I'm pulling my hair out over this one.

Apr 5, 2012 5:18 PM in response to John Crawford6

Have you guys follow the Apple support (Not these forums) recommended settings for the ipad wireless connection?

Here is the link and follow the directions and see what happens:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

iPad WiFi in UK.