IPad Internet connection preference

Simple question:
I have an iPad 2 WiFi & 3G model with SIM card installed. If, say, I'm in my apartment and my iPad is connected to my home WiFi network (which has access to the internet), how will it prefer to connect to the internet: through WiFi or directly through its 3G connection?
Thanks

verizon has a glitch so that turning 3G on and off often requires a reboot of machine, so prefer to leave both wi-fi and 3G on at same time -- so resolving which preferentially serves data is valuable to me (and perhaps to other verizon iPad users)

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Internet Connect preferences location

I bought a Intel MacMini for my father-in-law a couple years ago. It's running Tiger 10.4.11 and it has a Apple USB modem. He is on dial-up and always has been. The computer has never connected to the Internet any other way.
A year ago or so he changed his dial-up provider and things have never been the same since. When I open Internet Connect his old ISP logon information was under "Main number" in the pull-down menu. I tried to edit it by selecting "Edit configurations..." but the main number is grayed out and can't be edited. So I added a new configuration for his new ISP and for awhile, that worked fine as long as he remembered to select the right item in the pull-down since you cannot make anything but the Main number the default.
Then recently his ISP forced him to change his password but Internet Connect won't save the change so he has to type it in every time. He's in his 70s and this is all getting too complicated for him so I decided the best thing would be to delete all the settings in Internet Connect and start fresh. The problem is you cannot delete the Main number settings or the account from within Internet Connect.
So, I started looking in the Libraries for any files that might be the prefs for Internet Connect and I trashed all of them. This included all the plist files related to Internet Connect under HD > Library > Preferences and User > Library > Preferences. But I could not get rid of the settings under Main number no matter what.
Anyone know where this information is stored and how I can get rid of it?
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See if you have this one...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.internetconnect.<12digi tHexNumber>.plist
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/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

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my iPad is connected to the WiFi but I can't use internet. l have reset my network settings but still the problem exist. the VPN is also not able connect. please help me out.

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If your phone carrier supports the personal hotspot function (and you many need to contact them in case it's an extra fee/subscription) then yes, you can use that to share its 3G connection with the iPad - the iPad will see it as a wifi network.
Personal hotspot : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4517

Troubleshoot ipad internet connection

I have no internet connection but its connected to the wifi and now the app store wont load or or the safari wont load and i can't check to see if i can upload it and im not sure why it wont if its connected to the wifi

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IPad internet connectivity failure

I was sailing along with my 40-hour-old iPad2, getting all the apps in the right folders, setting up and using email accounts, having a wonderful time surfing the web. And then, Wham! My brand-spanking-new 32GB White Wi-Fi model decided it didn't like the Internet and refused to join the rest of the civilized world.
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After talking to an Apple rep, quitting the home network and rejoining it a couple of times, doing a complete Restore (there goes all those hours spent moving apps into folders and getting the settings for sounds, etc., almost right) twice. Nothing.
I've got an appointment at the Indianapolis Apple Store tomorrow afternoon. If that minor problem cannot fixed by the good folks at Keystone, where the connectivity issue did not raise its head while there Friday on a couple of other issues (did you know your Touch, and possibly your iPad, can have slooooow issues if you leave apps running in the latest version of iOS? By double tapping the home button and holding down an app icon at the bottom, the jiggles begin, the minus sign pops up and you can immediately close all those little guys making the Touch run slowly). But then, last evening ...
Is it possible someone in this community has found a similar problem and has found a solution?

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Where does Internet Connect store its preferences?

I've managed to mess up my Internet Connect settings (which used to work fine, with VPNs etc. etc.). Fortunately I have a complete mirror backup of my disk from before this problem. I don't want to do a full restore; does anyone know if there's a file that stores the Internet Connect preferences and settings that I can just copy over?
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Hi Michael!
Maybe
HD > Users > Your Account > Library > Preferences: com.apple.internetconnect.plist this one?
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Where does Internet Connect store its info?

I've managed to mess up my Internet Connect settings (which used to work fine, with VPNs etc. etc.). Fortunately I have a complete mirror backup of my disk from before this problem. I don't want to do a full restore; does anyone know if there's a file that stores the Internet Connect preferences and settings that I can just copy over?
Mike

This sounds like a job for ~/Library/Preferences. And indeed, I have some files there with likely looking names, such as,
com.apple.internetconfig.plist
com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist
com.apple.internetconnect.plist
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Is Internet Connect a startup application?

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Thanks for the help. I found the problem playing around in Network. I connect through Ethernet. For some reason when the Location is set to my provider (sympatico) Internet Connect does not start up. When I switch Location to Automatic, Internet Connect now functions properly.
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 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Network
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Mail was suddenly not able to connect to one of my external hosted e-mail accounts. Another account, same external virtual hosting but other domain, username, pwd is still working fine. Account settings in Mail are exact the same for both accounts (IMAP and SMTP). It's now a week trying to find the problem without any result. Very strange is, that Mail is sometimes suddenly able to connect the invalid account: Last week if I was away from the Mac for 20 minutes, coming back, the account was online. I was able to do some mails and cleanup my inbox. It ends if i reboot the Mac. In my network all Mavericks Macs, iPhones, iPads are connecting well this account.
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My internet connection is intermittent with my MBP but it's fine with my iPad. What's up with that?

My internet connection is intermittent with my MBP but it's fine with my iPad. What's up with that?

Back up all data before making any changes.
Step 1
Take all the applicable steps in this support article.
Step 2
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Step 4
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Share my PC's Internet connection to my iPad using Bluetooth / Интернет с ПК на iPad по Bluetooth

I have a desktop computer that has a Bluetooth internal adapter. It has an Internet cable.
I would like to use this connection on my iPad.
I know it works with an iPhone or, as I have found online, with a MacBook.
But how can a Windows computer be switched from the Bluetooth PAN (Pesonal Area Network) cliento to a PAN server?
Nothing I have done, the iPad has never shown the tethered icon. When the cellular is off, the iPad has no connection. Supposedly, the Bluetooth system is still working in the normal direction: iPad => Computer. What I need, is to switch it backwards: Computer => iPad.
Is it possible? If yes, please give me an idea how to do this.
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Есть настольный компьютер, у него есть встроенный Bluetooth и проводной Интернет.
Хотелось бы подключить iPad к этому соединению.
Я знаю, что это (брать Интернет) возможно с iPhone и, насколько я читал в Интернете, с MacBook.
Но можно ли сделать это с Windows-компьютером?
Если да, то как? Заранее благодарен. С уважением, Арсений.

Though your question asks about PC, your profile doesn;t say what computer OS you are using, but I can tell you how to do it on Mac. The process might be similar on Windows.
Pair your iPad to your Mac using these instructions.
Share your Internet connection on your Mac.
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Sharing.
Select Internet Sharing.
Choose the Internet connection you want to share from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu. For example, if you’re connected to the Internet over Ethernet, choose Ethernet.
Select Bluetooth for how you want to share your Internet connection in the “To computers using” list.

Internet connection suddenly slow for iMac but OK for iPad and iPod

A few days ago the WIFI internet connection on my iMac suddenly became so slow as to be unusable. However my iPad and iPod Touch on the same network still connect as normal. I have tried everything I can think of together with some ideas posted on various forums, including the following:
Rebooting and reformating the router - a Netgear DG834G v2
Connecting the iMac to the router via ethernet cable
Trying different channels on the wireless network
Altering the physical position of the router
Using Disk Utility to repair the hard drive on the iMac
Using Disk Utility to repair permissions on the iMac
Disconnecting the two external hard drives (one used for Time Machine) in case they were affecting performance
Running anti-virus software on the iMac and deleting any infected files
Disabling the anti-virus software
Deleting the network location on iMac and creating a new one
Trying different DNS servers including 208.67.222.222 / 208.67.220.220 and 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4
Removing Skype from the iMac - the application my daughter was using when the connection suddenly became slow
Trying to browse in both Safari and Firefox
Resetting caches on the iMac
Rebooting the iMac after trying all the above
Swearing at the computer
Pulling my hair out!
None of these have made any difference. Sometimes when I reboot the iMac the first page I browse to loads reasonably quickly but then it immediately slows to a crawl again. The iPad is still connecting perfectly so I don't think it's an issue with the router.
The iMac is a 24-inch 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Running OS X 10.7.5
The hard drive has a capacity of 320 GB with 62 GB free.
I'm at my wits' end trying to sort this out and don't know what else to try.
PLEASE HELP!

Hi BDAqua,
In Disk Utility the disk is listed as S.M.A.R.T. Verified and comes up with no errors when checked.
Activity Monitor: with no other applications open Activity Monitor itself is using the greatest percentage of the CPU at approx 3%. Opening Safari and trying to load a web page initially used about 20% but immediately dropped back to less than 1%.
Whilst trying to open the web page I noticed on the Network tab that the Data received/sec is generally between 0-20 bytes/sec, sometimes jumps to a couple of hundred bytes/sec and very occasionally peaks at about 1,000 bytes/sec. Data sent/sec is generally mirroring data received.
Free RAM is at 2.5 GB and free disk space is just short of 63 GB (out of a total capacity of 320GB).
In Console I am getting the following messages:
usbmuxd: AMDeviceConnect (thread 0x100781000): could not connect to lockdown port (62078) on device 6 - d81bda1a752c658f30b839f53ca2fdb6a55f4816: 0xe8000084
usbmuxd: _AMDevicePreflightWorker (thread 0x100781000): Pair worker could not connect to lockdownd on device 6: 0xe8000084
com.apple.usbmuxd: stopping
com.apple.usbmuxd: usbmuxd-296.4 on Dec 21 2012 at 16:11:14, running 64 bit
In the System Memory tab of Activity Monitor - Page outs : 0 bytes (0 bytes/sec)
Thanks for your help. It's really appreciated. By the way, it's taking me forever to type all this on my iPad!

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