Tech Questions
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Having an issue with my daughters iPad connecting to the internet.
it connects to our WiFi network but just wont connect to the internet.
Other devices on the network can connect to internet, her iPad can connect to internet on other networks or when I create a hotspot on my phone, seems an issue with her iPad and this Wifi.
Have tried the forget connection, reset network on the iPad, reset setting on iPad, renewed the lease on the iPad connection (whatever that does, but a online help suggested it)
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@taniwharugby i got no apple skillz, and pretty limited knowledge at all really - but if it were windows first thing i would do is check the ipad's IP address against the modems (or other devices on the network).
as i understand it your modem should allocate IP addresses (within a set range) to everything on the network - eg mine goes 192.168.1.1 for the modem, then from 192.168.1.2 up to 192.168.1.255 for each device connected.
my computer shits itself frequently and its IP address becomes 169.bla.bla.bla which is basically an error message. if i see that, i know there's a problem, and can set it to a static IP address - which you enter yourself as (in my case) 192.168.1.whatever, and it works.
of course i don't know how to do that on an ipad, but in the absence of anyone who knows more helping you out, that's all i've got. -
@taniwharugby probably a limit on your modem for dynamic IP ranges - very similar to what @reprobate said above.
Go into the modem settings and look for DHCP, then it should have a range of addresses it allocates. Just need to make that number bigger.
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@NTA said in Tech Questions:
@taniwharugby probably a limit on your modem for dynamic IP ranges - very similar to what @reprobate said above.
Go into the modem settings and look for DHCP, then it should have a range of addresses it allocates. Just need to make that number bigger.
Another issue I used to have with apple devices is that sometimes the IP address being used isn't dynamically changing. You may find two devices trying to use the same one.
Two things to try. Do a reset on the iPad (hold home and power down together until the apple appears). Next try a router reset.
Nick's solution may be the one though.
I had the same issue with my ipad yesterday at home. wifi connection was good but it just spun its wheels trying to connect to anything. Did the device reset and it all came good. -
The last number on the IP was .3
Yea tried the reset but will give other a shot.
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Update!
I have had an iPad for one week. The hardware (speaker placement aside) is very good for the price. The software is pretty average though, and riddled with inconsistencies and limitations (hardware buttons without software buttons are dumb; give me back and home buttons etc in the bottom centre of the screen no matter what the orientation; not having "search with google" in the context menu is very annoying). Built in adblocking is cool though.
If Google made a comparable Nexus 10, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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@tim said in Tech Questions:
Update!
I have had an iPad for one week. The hardware (speaker placement aside) is very good for the price. The software is pretty average though, and riddled with inconsistencies and limitations (hardware buttons without software buttons are dumb; give me back and home buttons etc in the bottom centre of the screen no matter what the orientation; not having "search with google" in the context menu is very annoying). Built in adblocking is cool though.
If Google made a comparable Nexus 10, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Sounds like you are just having adjustment issues and need to get used to the settings (this is the bit that gets most frustration as whoever designs the default settings at apple seems to be at odds with the way many people want to use things).
If you want to search with google just highlight the term you want to search, hold your finger down and select 'Lookup'. You will probably get a whole pile of shit that purports to be helpful such as Siri suggestions and things on your ipad itself. At the very bottom you get 'Search Web' which will then do the googling you are after.
You can get rid of the gumpf though by going to Settings-General-Spotlight Search and switching off 'Suggestions in Lookup'. Then you will only get the 'Search the web' option. -
So Apple's computer OS has the worst security flaw since Windows 98.
Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac
https://i.imgur.com/7nhfu0O.gifv
Also works remotely.
https://giant.gfycat.com/SentimentalNaiveAntelopegroundsquirrel.webm
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@tim said in Tech Questions:
Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac
I just tried and it didn't work for me, then I realised I set up root on my Mac and gave it a password.
That's a bad error, very embarrassing. More evidence they just don't care about the Mac anymore.
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Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
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@gt12 said in Tech Questions:
Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
I've just started a new job that only has PCs - I want to throw the fucking thing out the window. Forever updating, and I mean forever updating, and despite being a new machine running Windows 10 it has hissy fits when I have too many PDFs and Word docs open. Plus, I'm used to Word on a Mac now so it just annoys me on PC.
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@nepia said in Tech Questions:
@gt12 said in Tech Questions:
Fucking hell.
I’m so ready to change from my Mac, but I’m pretty locked in (photos etc) so it would take me a week to get everything sorted again.
All of these updates make my computer worse nowadays. It’s fucking terrible how much that company has gone to the dogs.
I've just started a new job that only has PCs - I want to throw the fucking thing out the window. Forever updating, and I mean forever updating, and despite being a new machine running Windows 10 it has hissy fits when I have too many PDFs and Word docs open. Plus, I'm used to Word on a Mac now so it just annoys me on PC.
That’s not normal, just FYI.