iPad WiFi in UK.

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.

I received my iPad 32Gb WiFi earlier this evening via UPS. Whatever I do to try and connect to my BT HomeHub broadband router leaves me with a 169.254 address. Put simply, I can connect to the router, and authenticate, but don't get an IP address so no internet. Even when I enter a static IP, it gets replaced after a few minutes. I've tried restarting both router and Hub, configuring to 11b only etc. There are plenty of DHCP addresses left but whatever I try makes no difference.

My iPad which arrived today works fine on all my wifi networks. Two networks are through my timecapsule both n and g networks, also works fine on the g network through my standard sky router.

I have the same problem with my new iPad
5 bars of Wifi on MacBook Pro
Only 1 on the iPad
DO NOT BUY THIS THING YET, IT IS FLAWED!

I've now managed to get the internet working by using a static IP Address on the WiFi Networks/IP Address/Static Tab. After about 3 hours of trying to get this to work, I'm pretty sure my BT HomeHub is unable to provide DHCP Services to the iPad correctly. Somethings not quite right here.

It will be interesting to see if other BT Homehub users have the same problem once the iPads reach a wider UK audience.

When I get time, I'll try setting up a different wireless router to see if that works and report back with my findings.

And on the other hand, more people don't have problems, including me.
So feel free to buy now.

WiFi is flawed on the UK model but only if you have an old firmware on your router or are still using WEP.

If you try to use WEP it constantly loses the password and it's annoying. Windows Mobile does this too!

Luckily I moved to WPA2 sometime ago so I only experienced this when I tested it.

Been using 3G Wifi iPad heavily for several weeks now in the UK (bought on trip to LA), wifi consistently works without any problem whatsoever. Using router in our house, constant three bars. On the road, have never had the slightest problem with wifi connecting to any source.

DX7 wrote:
I've now managed to get the internet working by using a static IP Address on the WiFi Networks/IP Address/Static Tab. After about 3 hours of trying to get this to work, I'm pretty sure my BT HomeHub is unable to provide DHCP Services to the iPad correctly. Somethings not quite right here.

It will be interesting to see if other BT Homehub users have the same problem once the iPads reach a wider UK audience.

When I get time, I'll try setting up a different wireless router to see if that works and report back with my findings.

Tell me, on your BT HH, if you go to Settings/Advanced/Home Network, do you get loads of entries for 1 or 2 particular devices? I'll say more when I hear what you have to say.

Using BT Homehub 2.0 and had no problems using iPad wifi just selecting the base station and entering WEP password. No fiddling, nothing, just selected and connected. Using assorted devices concurrently, no problems.

WEP, eh? Interesting. Why did you change it from WPA2 out of interest?
(BTW, I have no problems with the iPad, but there are issues with the BT HH and DHCP lease renewing on some devices. I'm interested to hear what DX7 has to say.)