iPads

Here I am sharing a couple of opportunities I had to learn more about the iPad, Perhaps you are encountering some of the same issues. If so, hopefully this will save you a little time. = = =Connecting to Your Home Wireless Network.=

This should be fairly straightforward. However, this is a problem I encountered and the steps I took to fix it. It may save you some time.

I am using a 2Wire router through AT&T Uverse for my home wireless network. The ipad should just find this and prompt you for the password, The password is listed on the router itself, but you actually want to use the "wireless key" string of numbers you find there. For some reason my new ipad was getting IP addresses that began with 169. This will not work and you will get a message that you are not connected to the internet when you open Safari. You can check this by following the path into the Settings> General> Network >Wi-FI and then your home network. You shoud have an IP address that begins with 192 and all the other field should be populated.

Recommended Steps to follow if your are having problems. 1. Following same path choose renew lease. if that doesn't work 2. From Settings>General scroll all the way down the right side if the screen and Reset to factory defaults. or 3.From Settings> General> Network >Wi-FI choose "Forget This Network" from the top of the screen and power down the iPad. Here is how you power down.

To turn the iPad back on, just press the hold button until the screen lights up and the Apple logo appears. Then let the button go and the iPad will boot up.
 * Begin by locating the iPad's [|hold button]. This button is on the top right-hand corner of the iPad.
 * Press the hold button for a few seconds, until a red slider appears at the top of the screen that says "slide to power off."
 * Slide it to the right. (If you don't want to shut it down, tap the "cancel" button at the bottom of the screen.)
 * You'll see a small wheel and then the screen will go dim. The iPad is now shut off.

Actually, none of these first steps worked for me. The final thing I did was to turn off power to the router, let it sit for about a minute and then turn it back on. It takes a few minutes to boot back up. I did go into the ipad and tell it to forget the networks before doing that but I'm not sure that was necessary since another iPad in the house that was working fine off the router suddenly also started getting the wrong IPs and my wireless MacBook Air worked fine through the whole (long) process.

I hope you don't have the same problems, scouring the help forums I saw that this did crop up as a problem, but not for everyone. If you do have an issue I hope this saves you some time.

=Setting up Your Apple ID= When I finally go connected to the internet I wanted to start downloading some apps. When I first attempted this "eflovett" had already set up the machine with his apple id. I recognized his nae as on of the technicians that set up the machines. Here is how I set up my own Apple ID for my ipad. (First I already had an Apple ID, but this post is more about helping you get around the previously set Apple ID that your device might be defaulting to.)

1. Follow the path Settings>Store>Apple ID (you may have to scroll down to get to Store) 2. Choose Apple ID. Sign out. Click OK to enable autodownload 3. Sign In. Create new Apple ID or Use existing one if you already have one.