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Posts Tagged ‘iPad IOS 3.2.1 upgrade’

Having had the same difficulty as others with the iPad WIFI, which works but which tends to forget passwords on occasion and generally is not very happy with a multi-router environment, I had high hopes when yesterday I noted that an upgrade was available.

One of the biggest issues I have with the otherwise excellent Apple iPad is the notoriously bad iTunes program. It may be that my computers are all 64-bit, I don’t know, the iTunes on Windows 7 must be the least reliable program I own. It is so slow it hurts, even on a top notch computer and you never know if it’s thinking or it’s crashed. And so yesterday morning I proceeded to try to upgrade the iPad using iTunes on my main PC. Several hours later it was still working on the backup, a process I’ve never really understood because some people say backups take 20 minutes, for others like me it seems to take all day.  The PROBLEM with that of course being that most USB ports don’t have enough get-up-and-go to actually power the iPad so you’re constantly running into the problem that as your iPad is slowly backing up, the batteries are rather more rapidly discharging.

Eventually I gave up and tried again on the laptop. This time the backup took a couple of hours and then off we went into upgrading. The process itself took next to no time and before I knew it I had a brand-spanking new 3.2.1 operating system on my iPad.

The thing is, I can’t actually say I notice any difference whatsoever. In the 24 hours since then it has forgotten the password once and still prefers to stick with the router signal it has instead of hopping to a stronger one. The iPhone simply doesn’t suffer from this problem.

Don’t get me wrong, none of this is a major inconvenience, it’s just a pain when you wander around a large house with several routers (my house is made of very old, very thick stone and WIFI signals simply won’t penetrate this, so I have 4 routers, one in the ceiling, one in the living room, one in the bedroom and another in my office).

So while the upgrade was smooth and relatively trouble-free, in this case for the life of me I can’t tell you why I bothered..