So, my Mom bought herself an Ipad 2. Seeing as she's not very technically minded, she asked me to set it up for her, since I'm visiting for the holidays.
So I start the thing up, and it absolutely cannot find her wireless network. Well, I don't know much about networks, so I tried just typing in the name and password, but that didn't work, so I open up the router settings to take a look around, but I can't see anything that I know what it does, so Mom calls up Gary, her local computer guy. Miraculously enough (it being New Year's Eve and it normally taking about two weeks to reach him), she gets him on the line, so he remotes into her computer and changes the router settings so that the Ipad can see the network. Wonderful! I say goodbye to Gary and send him off to enjoy his New Years.
Dammit! The Ipad still won't connect to the network. So I change the password to something that I can be sure I am typing correctly. Damn! Still won't connect. It's about this point that I realize my major error. Can you guess what it is? That's right, I forgot that most basic of troubleshooting steps, restarting the damn machine. So I restart the Ipad, but it still won't connect, but it is rejecting the connection much faster. Hey! Guess what else I didn't do! I didn't restart the router! So I lug my ass upstairs and restart the router. Nope. Still won't connect. So I restarted the Ipad one more time, and Voila! It works! Yaaaay.
Later this evening I got online to print out my boarding pass on the wireless printer (my plane leaves sunny Florida at 6am, fun times), but when I went to get it from the printer it wasn't there. Hmm, that's odd. I'm not getting any error messages, and it has plenty of paper. So I try again. Nope, nothing. So I restart the printer. Nothing.
Now, if you were paying careful attention, you will have realized my mistake. That's right, I reset the wireless password. Long story short, I now have about 400 copies of my boarding pass, and the wireless password is back to the original one. Now I just have to remember to tell Mom, and change the password in her Ipad before I leave.
So I start the thing up, and it absolutely cannot find her wireless network. Well, I don't know much about networks, so I tried just typing in the name and password, but that didn't work, so I open up the router settings to take a look around, but I can't see anything that I know what it does, so Mom calls up Gary, her local computer guy. Miraculously enough (it being New Year's Eve and it normally taking about two weeks to reach him), she gets him on the line, so he remotes into her computer and changes the router settings so that the Ipad can see the network. Wonderful! I say goodbye to Gary and send him off to enjoy his New Years.
Dammit! The Ipad still won't connect to the network. So I change the password to something that I can be sure I am typing correctly. Damn! Still won't connect. It's about this point that I realize my major error. Can you guess what it is? That's right, I forgot that most basic of troubleshooting steps, restarting the damn machine. So I restart the Ipad, but it still won't connect, but it is rejecting the connection much faster. Hey! Guess what else I didn't do! I didn't restart the router! So I lug my ass upstairs and restart the router. Nope. Still won't connect. So I restarted the Ipad one more time, and Voila! It works! Yaaaay.
Later this evening I got online to print out my boarding pass on the wireless printer (my plane leaves sunny Florida at 6am, fun times), but when I went to get it from the printer it wasn't there. Hmm, that's odd. I'm not getting any error messages, and it has plenty of paper. So I try again. Nope, nothing. So I restart the printer. Nothing.
Now, if you were paying careful attention, you will have realized my mistake. That's right, I reset the wireless password. Long story short, I now have about 400 copies of my boarding pass, and the wireless password is back to the original one. Now I just have to remember to tell Mom, and change the password in her Ipad before I leave.
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