My iPad works everywhere but I have issues with Fios supplied router.

Question

I have the dropping signal and having to resign in problem. I do not have any problems at my work Verizon DSL supplied router.
I even took it to a friend's house who has Fios, same dropping problem occured on his Fios router.
Might it be a security feature? When the iPad shuts down the router cuts the signal?

Answer 1

etresoft wrote:
dubgiant90 wrote:
From what I've seen, the ipad is working well with DSL (mostly). The problem lies mostly with the newer technology like FIOS.
The iPad has nothing to do with either DSL or FIOS. Those are broadband technologies that connect your house to the Internet. Where people are having trouble is with connecting the DSL/FIOS device to the iPad via WiFi. With either DSL or FIOS, it is trivially easy to swap out the WiFi part with another brand if router.
So how do people conclude that it's the iPad? Because everything else seems to be working fine!
Unfortunately, that is a logically fallacy. Clearly the iPad doesn't work well with a number of routers. No one disputes that. The dispute is over how large that problem set really is and, more importantly, if there is anything in the world that Apple can do about it. No one outside Apple has any idea of the answers to those two questions. To suggest that Apple doesn't care is just ridiculous. I have no doubt at all that Apple is doing everything economically and technically possible to improve the situation. However, there just might be nothing they can do.
Other peoples don't and they're trying to find the exact problem which IS the iPad.
How can you be "trying to find" the problem when you already "know" the answer?
Take off your apple love shades and look at it from a realistic point of view.
I complain about Apple on a regular basis in the developer forums where I mostly hang out. Even there, when I complain, it is in the context of trying to help people figure out some problem with Apple technologies. I am just as harsh there with anyone who uses poor logic and winds up blaming Apple unjustly. If you have facts and logic, I am more than happy to reproduce the problem, report it to Apple, and look for a usable workaround. I see no point whatsoever in using poor logic to jump to a conclusion and join the cacophony of rants to call on Apple to "make a statement" or something similarly silly.
Well gee, they haven't public ally announced anything. YOU don't know how big this problem is either so atop acting like it's nothing. People on here are really frustrated that they jut spent 500$+ for an item that NEEDS Internet. It's like if It was a problem with screen brightness, okay whatever. If it was a problem with a small glitch then okay. This is a problem with wifi. If it doesn't work properly, the item is completely useless. I don't geet how you can see this not as an iPad problem when there are so many devices in the world that use wifi just fine. I've never heard of having to buy a new router to use an item. Apple sure as **** didn't advertise it like that either. Truth it they screwed up and they're handling it quite ******. If there really isn't anything in the world that apple can do about it then everyone should be refunded their money, this product wAs never advertised or marketed to work with some routers. It was a device created to work on the go anywhere and everywhere. And congratulations it has been working for you but ithasnt for everyone. I finally got my problem fixed at home by reading this helpful online forum. The fios thread single handledly fixed my issue at home. The reason I'm so mad is because apple hasn't released anything to the public that helped fixed anything. If this online support forum with just regular tech guys can find a solution, why the he'll can't they. And if someone has a problem and they dot know about these forums, they go to the apple store. And the apple store BLINDLY tests just on their own network (similar to how you bashed Princeton for not testing outside of their network) and they conclude that it's the routers problem, ****** rediculous