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| Thread ID: 120620 | 2011-09-17 11:06:00 | New iMac set up but now can't connect to internet from iPad | Beemer (6956) | Press F1 |
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| 1231823 | 2011-09-17 13:22:00 | That could be it - once I unplugged the cords from the PC I got a bit lost as to where they went... yes, I was born blonde... I will see what I can do now and see if it fixes it! | Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1231824 | 2011-09-17 13:29:00 | Did that, iMac still connected and working fine but same message from the iPad - "Safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding". | Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1231825 | 2011-09-17 13:31:00 | Turn off all those sharing settings that you setup, you don't need sharing on, you are not sharing anything. The wireless router broadcasts the wireless BB whether the Mac is on or not as long as the wireless router is powered up and connected to the broadband modem And also check in the Ipad settings that the WI FI is picking up your wireless network. You may need to restart both the modem and wireless router. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 1231826 | 2011-09-17 13:39:00 | You also have WI FI on the Mac There is a wireless icon in the top right, turn it on and if the wireless router is broadcasting you should be able to to see your wireless network there as well |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 1231827 | 2011-09-17 13:50:00 | Well, unfortunately that didn't work. When I have the modem plugged into the iMac it works perfectly (I hadn't realised the cord from the wireless router was just looped around and had the cable plugged into itself...), but if I try plugging the wireless router into the modem, then I get a message to say the iMac is not connected to the internet. At the moment one end of the cable is plugged into the ethernet connection on the iMac and the other into the modem. Despite previously marking the cables so I knew which bit plugged in where, I can't for the life of me remember what the letters mean and how to get it to work. I would think that one end of the wireless router cable would have to plug into the modem - but that then requires the modem cable to be plugged into the router and that stops the internet connection to the iMac. No matter what I do, I can't get anything from the iPad other than a server not responding message. I've turned off network sharing but still no joy. | Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1231828 | 2011-09-17 14:00:00 | The wireless router has 1 Wan port, the others are LAN ports, normally the cable goes from the WAN port on the wireless router to the modem Lan port You then connect the Mac by cable to one of the LAN ports on the wireless modem. Depending on how the wireless router was configured initially sometimes the wireless router is connected to the modem by the Lan port instead of the WAN port so you could try both ways. But the Mac has to be connected to one of the LAN ports on the wireless modem. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 1231829 | 2011-09-17 14:14:00 | My modem has only an ethernet, a USB and an ADSL port, no LAN port. The router has an ethernet port and four LAN ports. I've just plugged the iMac into one of the LAN ports on the router and hey presto, the iPad is connecting and opening web pages, so THANK YOU!!! If only the iMac hadn't connected before when I had it plugged in wrong, maybe I would have not kept you up so late... but then I wouldn't have been connected so I would have probably gone mad by now! The iPod is working too, so fingers crossed those two devices will still connect once the iMac is off. If I ever meet up with you, I owe you a drink or two! My husband (not into computers) figured it was better to leave me to it and went to bed ages ago! Time for me to sleep now too, but thanks again, you guys always know the right answers! |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1231830 | 2011-09-17 14:23:00 | No problem Beemer, you will be able to sleep better now. | Safari (3993) | ||
| 1231831 | 2011-09-17 14:29:00 | You're not wrong! I'm leaving it to update my iPod software as it reckons that will take 14 hours (so I won't know if it still connects when the iMac is off until tomorrow), but do you know how to transfer the music currently on the iPod that was loaded to iTunes on the PC? It's basically showing there is only one song in iTunes (downloaded using the iPad) but of course the iPod itself has thousands. I did search online and found something about transferring purchases but the page I found said it didn't apply to the iPod Touch, which is what I've got. | Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1231832 | 2011-09-17 20:14:00 | Are these purchases from the iTunes store or random mp3's? You could use sharepod or similar software to copy the music back onto the computer but if it is from the iTunes store then it probably won't work because of DRM. If they're purchased from iTunes couldnt you just login to the account that purchase them are re-download them onto the iMac and then sync with the iPad. |
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