Wifi Suddenly Dropped Connection and won't work

My iPad suddenly lost connection to my Wifi and asked me to enter my password again to join it. So I did and suddenly none of my internet would work. I tried resetting/restoring my iPad and the network setting as well as messing about with the DNS settings. None worked.
I went into wifi. Chose the network and clicked on the blue dot open the options. I pressed Forget this network and went to rejoin it.
This is where I realised how daft I was being.
I have on the stickies section of my MacBook the WEP password for my wifi. However I had recently changed it so had both the new and old passwords on the stickies.
I had been entering the old password. However the iPad had accepted this and not gave me any error messages until I could not get onto safari. As the iPad was showing Wifi signal with full bars at times it never occured to me to try the other password.
Anyway. I did. and. It worked. Notice other people have this problem. May be that they are as daft as me.

Hi-
Lovely story, and one that I am sure many, willing to admit or not, have experienced.
I know that I am guilty of the same, with regard to the wife's iPhone.
The entire time, I muttered, "What did YOU do?", when it was, in fact, me entering the old password.
D'oh!!
Thanks for sharing!

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