Recently, I ran across a problem with my iPad 2 that I had not experienced before: not being able to connect to a wireless network! I’ve had my iPad 2 since it first came out and haven’t had a single issue with it yet! It’s the best gadget I have ever owned. Anyway, I setup a new wireless network in my house and I was trying to connect but kept getting the message:
Unable to join the network [network name]
My first thought was that the iPad 2 could not connect because I had
setup the security to WPA2-PSK with AES encryption. I went ahead and
quickly changed the security on my wireless router to WPA with TKIP and
the iPad 2 connected!! That was great, but I was still surprised that
the iPad 2 would not support WPA2.
After doing some research, I figured out that the iPad 2 does indeed
support WPA2 and TKIP/AES encryption. So I changed the security on the
wireless router back, but still could not connect! Frustrating to say
the least!
After a while, I decided to try and reset all the settings. I
eventually found an option to reset the network settings only. After
resetting the network settings, I was able to connect my iPad 2 to the
WPA2-PSK AES network! Not sure why I had to reset the settings, but for
whatever reason, it did the trick.
You can do this on your iPad 2 by first going to Settings and then clicking on General.
Scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see an option called Reset. Tap on this and you will see the following options:
Go ahead and tap the Reset Network Settings option
and you should be good to go! Turn on your Wi-Fi again and try to
connect to the problem wireless network. Hopefully you will be able to
connect now without any issues. If you are having problems, post a
comment here and I’ll try to help! Enjoy!
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