Are the Wifi problems fixed yet?

Question

Hey,
Im from the UK and currently holidaying in the US. I really want an I-pad, and am thinking about getting one whilst im out here, but am very concerned about the wi-fi issues and having problems returning the Ipad to stores in the UK since it isnt out yet.
So, have apple sorted out the issues with the wireless connection as i think its probably going to be the deciding factor on whether i buy or not.
Thank you,

Answer 1

Greetings,
Although there are some people having various issues with their WiFi, I am not one of them, nor are the folks in our users group - the nearly 200 of them that have iPads, so far.
I have taken my iPad to many locations that have WiFi and have yet to experience any abnormal issues with connectivity, throughput, staying connected, etc.
I, and nearly all of the folks in our Mac Users Group use the Apple Extreme Base Stations, at home, and at work we use Aruba, or Juniper WiFi equipment.
None of us use that junky stuff like a lot of ISPs give out, or Linksys, D-Link, etc - most of the other home type network stuff. I do have a high end Netgear, that I use as an extender at one location, and have no problems with it, thus far.
Most of us in our users group are IT professionals, of one sort or another, so I wouldn't expect us to have very many issues, except if they were for hardware reasons. At this point, I don't see any, or we would be having issues, at least some of us. We just had a meeting last night, and I brought this up in the meeting, and the response was that they were having nothing out of the ordinary - just the usual stuff you'd expect with WiFi, from time to time.
I haven't used my iPad in an area where they are having issues - actually I'm not sure where to go looking. Maybe I can find some folks with the cheap, to low grade routers, and give it a go. I was just in McDonalds, and it worked well, but I don't expect Mickey Ds to use cheap stuff. It worked at the airport yesterday, but I was only connected a half an hour or so.
I also frequent Starbucks every workday morning, and have shown the iPad off each day since I got it on that wonderful Saturday. Since that time, over a dozen other folks have gotten one, and every one seems to be happy. I see most of them almost every day at Starbucks, or a couple times a week.
This little device has been a Godsend for me - I use it with my Exchange Mail, my MobileMe mail, I depend on the Calendar, Address Book, use it for note taking, and access ing my files via AirShare, and a couple of other file access methods. It's a damned fine business tool, and was the chief reason I bought it in the first place.
Nope, I see no problems here, on my end, but I do see people on these forums complaining about various issues - some are ridiculous, to almost a non-issue, and others are self inflicted.
I would expect an update at some point in time to help folks with the lower end equipment, and those with poor setups, configs, knowledge, etc
At any rate, I'm enjoying the heck out of mine for business and pleasure - now if I could just get the College to pay for it..........
Good Luck All,
M.