Lose my wifi connection

All of the sudden I lose my connection to the Internet. I know my Wi-Fi is okay because I never lose contact connection on my lap top. Someone had said to reset settings and I need to go to General and then reset. There is a reset all settings or reset network settings. I'm afraid to do either one of those in case I lose all the settings that I put in before. My children help me do that and they aren't here now. How do I go about it and do you think that is my problem?

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico my first language is Spanish. I do not speak English, however I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
Try a reset. Press & hold the Power and Home buttons simultaneously, ignoring the red power off slider, until the Apple logo appears. Then release both buttons. This should not affect any content on the iPad, it is similar to rebooting your computer.

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