Lose it without any further ado. Restarting the router is one of the simplest and possibly the most obvious things you ought to try. As idiotic and silly it may sound, a simple restart can definitely clear a few clogs in the system. You would just have to toggle your WiFi off, wait for a minute, and then switch it back on.

Instead, we are just going through a different DNS to fetch data from the internet. The DNS is usually set automatically which is the optimal thing. But sometimes the default setting may not work. In that case, public DNSes like the suggestions above may come in helpful to your purpose. It is undoubtedly hard to measure or quantify the impact of neighborhood WiFi signals, but your iPad WiFi technology works this way: it looks for the strongest signal and latches onto it.

You may start moving your router to a more optimal location of your house and start changing the channels to see whether things improve or not.

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Okay, now this is perhaps your last resort. Upgrade to the latest firmware version and see whether things improve or not. To know more about the different ways of improving the signal strength on your iPad, refer to the following infographic. Source- Inspire WiFi. Steven Scheck is the Principal of Inspire WiFi , the nationwide leader of Wi-Fi networks for the apartment wireless , hospitality and healthcare industries.

This article was written for Business 2 Community by Steven Scheck. Learn more about writing for B2C. In my experience the iPad seems to have some directional focus on signal with WiFi I would also suggest not using 5ghz band for WiFi if you have some distance and many obstacles between your device and router. Also iPads have a aluminum back which means signal sensitivity probably favors front of iPad so pointing front towards signal may help some. I believe the iPads are somewhat directional because of this.

Join over 50, of your peers and receive our weekly newsletter which features the top trends, news and expert analysis to help keep you ahead of the curve. Maybe you felt. Trouble is once you get by, free up digitizer on one antenna,,, you have a second one to free up, get by on other side of camera. For it is a very delicate, meticulous repair. Disconnecting, or re-connecting the lcd screen cable when iPad is not fully powered off, can blowout the back-light filter which is a circuit on the logic board.

Producing a permanent dark, dim lcd screen. These screws are extremely small. The normal precision type screw driver set will not do. I thought the iPad 2 logic board was going to have to be removed, but there is a much easier way without having to remove the logic board.

Photo above right, shows the backside of the iPads glass touch panel, where the wifi cable is attached to backside. The wifi antenna sits just to the right of the ipad home button on iPads models 2, 3, and the iPad 4.

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On removing the iPads glass digitizer, the wifi cable ripped separating into 2 pieces, one on the iPad frame, the other on glass touch screen bezel area. You will see the other end of this wifi wireless cable running to, and under the iPads logic board. Remove these 4 very small antenna screws, do not lose these screws. Partially peeled up in this photo. You can actually pull up carefully on that black tape area of this cover with your fingers,, carefully.

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Be careful you do not damage circuits under this lid while removing! Removing this lid will then expose the backside of the wireless wifi board. Silver cover popped off, and removed. Photo on left, this is the backside off the iPad 2 wireless, wifi board. The ipads 2 wifi board connects into a socket straight down, on the logic board. Actually best to use corner of a credit card rather than a precision screw driver or metal. Next Photo. Maybe eBay used.

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Here is the iPad 2 wifi wireless board disconnected from logic board. You can see the socket in this photo, it is straight down. To re-connect it, line it up and push straight down. And here is the other end of the wireless cable. Cable runs under the small silver trim, which you can see and remove the cable easily. Cable is plugged into the small socket on board as you see.

Next photo below,. Hold this cable down with your finger and carefully pull the antenna cable out from under it. If you have not already, remove the 4 screw holding iPads antenna to the frame. DO NOT lose these tiny screws. Your now ready to install the new iPad 2 wireless wifi cable.

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From here it very easy, just do all in reverse. Without pulling the paper backing off the 3M tape on the digitizer or frame, carefully flip the glass digitizer in place on the iPad. Power the iPad up and check your wifi settings and nearby networks. Adhesive tape or adhesive backing on the wifi antenna is only needed for the digitizer to hold down the iPads digitizer so your home button, mainly on the iPad 2 and iPad 3 makes contact and works properly.

Connection must be seated in socket good. Also make sure the wifi board is connected down into logic board firmly, and good connection to the board. Make sure the very small 4 screws are back in place that anchor antenna to the iPads frame. If you are showing a greyed out wifi setting, chances are that wifi board is not connected firmly into board socket.