FB, Emails etc no working but other web pages are...any ideas? Ive spoken to apple twice

Question

This is random, fb app will not update newsfeed and comes up with networking error, all other webpages work, except I can not send a photo in Twitter or from my MAIL app on the ipad 2. My husbands I pad is doing the same thing, I have reset the ipad, checked wifi and router settings ( my mac is currently working fine on my wifi) and i have changed the IP address thing to 8.8.8.8 and still it doesn't work!

Answer 1

I'm experiencing a similar problem with a new iPad 2 using iOS 4.3.3 connected to the Internet via Time Machine to a DSL line.  The Speedtest X HD App shows the connection speed to be fine (about .6 Mb / s).  The problem is only with accessing web pages.  I frequently get a "server not responding" msg.  There is no problem when I connect the device via USB to an iMac, only through wifi.  The iMac itself (Intel with OSX 10.6.7) periodically experiences problems (both Firefox and Safari):  I have learned to solve it by cleaning out cache and fixing disk permissions periodically.  I've tried cleaning out cache on the iPad, deleting cookies and erasing web history, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.  The problem reminds me of an old VNC problem:  you had to allocate a large amount of cache or streaming would stall.  This is also happening with the iPad 2.  Maybe the problem is a DNS channel issue but my impression is that it is somehow related to a memory or cache issue with the iOS device or to Airport.  I've occassionally experienced similar slow page loading problems with other Airport connected devices--it varies from device to device.  It seems to be a client-side software or caching problem.