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From: Woody on 30 Jun 2010 07:30 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > On 30 June, 09:40, Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> When I come in from using my iPad at work on the mifi, and come come > > to >> the home network, the iPad will initially recognise it and work. Then >> when It goes to sleep and I wake it up again, it says it is connected >> but if I go anywhere it will tell me the network isn't there. I go to >> prefs, turn networking off and then on again and everything is fine, > > I saw something similar with the iPTs when the girls first got them. > It turned out that they were picking up the wireless, but weren't > getting allocated an IP by the DHCP server. I ended up getting the > DHCP server to allocated static IPs and the problem went away. Yes, that would help where I have static ips. I actually have static ips at home, with a small dynamic range for new devices. A static ip would be better as it could use my dns then, but how about when out using some random hotel ip? -- Woody
From: Sak Wathanasin on 30 Jun 2010 07:39
On 30 June, 12:30, Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Yes, that would help where I have static ips. I actually have static ips > at home, with a small dynamic range for new devices. A static ip would > be better as it could use my dns then, but how about when out using some > random hotel ip? You'd think they'd have DHCP sussed by now, wouldn't you? I'd expected them to use the same IP stack that they use on the Macs, but clearly not... |