I'm stuck out in Southern Africa until Sunday and I've just been talking to Dad. Dad is a wicked combination of technical savvy and terrifying naivety. It goes without saying he upgraded his iPad 2 on day one, and has simply accepted every upgrade since.
Anyway, talking to him on the phone tonight and he told me a tale. He said every internet connected device in the house went a bit mad (his words) and it seemed to start with the iPad. He's done the sensible thing: switch everything off, including the iPad, reset the router and then switch everything back on. He noticed the browser history seemed to have disappeared from the iPad.
Our router is a BT Home Hub 4 BTW. I've suggested we do a full factory reset of the iPad2 next week. I consider this a healthy thing to do anyway - we all accumulate crap we end up not using, over time.
Has anyone else had similar oddities on their home network. I've long suspected Apple devices perhaps don't play as nicely with networking/WiFi as we'd all want. Here in Namibia, I've mostly been tethering my iPad Mini off a Nokia 720 with a local SIM (along with other tethered devices off the same phone). On those occasions (two, in three weeks) I've had to reset the Nokia, it''s because the iPad Mini stopped playing ball (usually stuck trying to connect).
Anyway, talking to him on the phone tonight and he told me a tale. He said every internet connected device in the house went a bit mad (his words) and it seemed to start with the iPad. He's done the sensible thing: switch everything off, including the iPad, reset the router and then switch everything back on. He noticed the browser history seemed to have disappeared from the iPad.
Our router is a BT Home Hub 4 BTW. I've suggested we do a full factory reset of the iPad2 next week. I consider this a healthy thing to do anyway - we all accumulate crap we end up not using, over time.
Has anyone else had similar oddities on their home network. I've long suspected Apple devices perhaps don't play as nicely with networking/WiFi as we'd all want. Here in Namibia, I've mostly been tethering my iPad Mini off a Nokia 720 with a local SIM (along with other tethered devices off the same phone). On those occasions (two, in three weeks) I've had to reset the Nokia, it''s because the iPad Mini stopped playing ball (usually stuck trying to connect).
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