Apple preparing an iPad Wi-Fi fix
May 11, 2010: 12:38 PM ETMore than a month after it appeared, the company will address a nagging complaint
"A very small number of iPad users have experienced issues with Wi-Fi connectivity," begins Apple (AAPL) Support Article TS3304 "iPad: Issues connecting to Wi-Fi networks," putting a positive spin on an embarrassing development before offering several kludgy workarounds.
Then, in an update posted last week, the support article delivers a line that will be music to many a frustrated iPad owner's ears:
"Apple will also address remaining Wi-Fi connectivity issues with a future iPad software update."
The problems the early iPad adopters reported -- dropped connections, weak signals, forgotten passwords, sluggish downloads -- appeared on Day 1. The longest thread on Apple's iPad support board, "Weak wifi," began on April 3 at 5:18 p.m., less than nine hours after the device went on sale. It's since drawn 761 comments and has been read 111,766 times.
The support article promising the Wi-Fi software fix was updated on May 6, but nobody seems to have noticed the change until early Tuesday morning, when a user in Ohio named Kermit262 spotted it.
"Excellent news," Kermit wrote at 5:51 a.m. "No timeframe given, but it's reassuring knowing a fix will be forthcoming."
Via AppleInsider.
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