Certainly there is a concern about bandwidth usage but the rest of it is much ado about nothing.
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Yeah, bandwidth to an ipad is much greater than the same file downloaded to a laptop. Sure I believe that. 
As for Universities, this reminds me of years ago when the first calculators came out and the Princton U Bookstore got 10 of them in and the University Dean banned sales to students. Only University tenured Profs could buy one. However, the bookstore sold out to the public in one day. I was one who drove to the store to get one. As I left a number of students tried to buy it from me. Universities love new stuff, but they are far more conservative in approving the new stuff for use by their students.
Israel- I'm surprised they would let any Apple products be sold in Israel. I would not be surprised if the Pope would declare Apple products also forbidden among Catholics.
As for Universities, this reminds me of years ago when the first calculators came out and the Princton U Bookstore got 10 of them in and the University Dean banned sales to students. Only University tenured Profs could buy one. However, the bookstore sold out to the public in one day. I was one who drove to the store to get one. As I left a number of students tried to buy it from me. Universities love new stuff, but they are far more conservative in approving the new stuff for use by their students.
Israel- I'm surprised they would let any Apple products be sold in Israel. I would not be surprised if the Pope would declare Apple products also forbidden among Catholics.
It's a numbers game, Don. No one believed that iPhone users would consume anywhere near the bandwidth that they do. I think there is a fear that the same thing could happen with a device like the iPad. I don't expect the university bans to last very long unless they're holding out for kickbacks from Apple.Yeah, bandwidth to an ipad is much greater than the same file downloaded to a laptop. Sure I believe that.
I wonder if Best Buy will have the 3G version in-store on April 30th?
Also, is anyone buying the AppleCare Protection Plan ($99) with their iPad?
Bob
Also, is anyone buying the AppleCare Protection Plan ($99) with their iPad?
Bob
Two of the bans (and the ban in Israel) are for security reasons, not bandwidth... but instead how the ipad DHCP client continues to use the same IP even after the lease has expired (apparently a bug in this OS version) and something about WSU's network won't allow current ipad and iphones authenticate on the network and is expected to be more than a year before it's resolved.
If other devices aren't having problems with these networks it's clearly another case of Apple trying to do things their own way.
Princeton, George Washington University ban iPads from networks
Princeton hasn't banned them completely, but instead is banning them 1 at a time until a fix is available from Apple.
If other devices aren't having problems with these networks it's clearly another case of Apple trying to do things their own way.
Princeton, George Washington University ban iPads from networks
Princeton hasn't banned them completely, but instead is banning them 1 at a time until a fix is available from Apple.
meStevo- They said in the article it was with iphones too. What appears to be a bug in the OS 3.2. And, yes, Apple does most stuff their own way. Part of the reason they are successful since enough people want that way. Bugs are different, and I'm sure Apple will get it fixed.
Don, to use the iPad with the iPhone web, Scott makes his iPhone a wireless network, and finds it with the iPad. Hope that helps.
Thanks, Eva. I'll have to look into an ap that can do that on my TP2.
digiblur? You copy this? Any ideas?
digiblur? You copy this? Any ideas?
I know in the aftermarket ROMs it is pre-installed. I just slide over to the wireless controls tab, hit WiFi Router to ON and that's it. It turns on the WiFi and makes a wireless hot spot. The app is actually made by HTC themselves, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, etc just left it out
I know you can install it manually with a cab, I will see if I can find it.
I love Google!
I'm on a wifi router connection right now with the iPad. It is using a free CAB called Mobile Wifi Router. Located at pocketpcfreeware.mobi.
It only uses WEP but the install and configuration was super easy. The installed program appears in the communications section of systems.
Speed seems about the same as my TP2 naked.
Who need a G3 iPad?
I'm on a wifi router connection right now with the iPad. It is using a free CAB called Mobile Wifi Router. Located at pocketpcfreeware.mobi.
It only uses WEP but the install and configuration was super easy. The installed program appears in the communications section of systems.
Speed seems about the same as my TP2 naked.
Who need a G3 iPad?
Don get a program called PDANET.
Turns your phone into a mobile hotspot.
I have PDAnet. it was suggested to me by Verizon tech support, believe it or not. However, the one I have only connects via USB or BT. I use it with USB but with this new wifi I may use it more unless I need higher security. WEP is not very secure as you know.
Let me know if the PDAnet for iPhone has the wifi. Just curious.
I am not using PDA net on my iPhone, I am using the built in tethering that I enabled via Jailbreaking it.
See Don we just saved you $800.
The way I figure, my annual investment in you and company pays back about 60 times and gets better every year.
Got to use an ipad finally today at an Apple Store (first time I've been in one actually) and half the sites I went to didn't work right because of lack of Flash support... NFL.com, Justin.TV, my old wow guild's website (flash menu).
Impressed with speed, but not much else, especially Apple's vision of a flash-less internet. I've run into a lot of people at this conference im at that have ipads with them and no laptops... the ipad makes a really good hard surface for the pad and pen they had to use to take notes with, I'll have to ask one of them if I can take a picture of that tomorrow if I see someone doing that, was kinda funny.
Impressed with speed, but not much else, especially Apple's vision of a flash-less internet. I've run into a lot of people at this conference im at that have ipads with them and no laptops... the ipad makes a really good hard surface for the pad and pen they had to use to take notes with, I'll have to ask one of them if I can take a picture of that tomorrow if I see someone doing that, was kinda funny.
No can do on that... it is an Adhoc connection and WPA is not supported on Adhoc. You can only hang one device off it at a time, but I guess someone could snoop on the traffic. They would have to be really close to you though, as much like the iPad, the HTC phone's Wifi is not that strong.
