Thread: What use for an iPad?

I would suggest;

Update router's firm ware (if you haven't done so)
disable wireless access list
try WPA or better WPA 2

On you wife's MacBook


Preferences/Network/WiFi

It should see the wireless network in MacBook, choose it and you should just enter the WPA password

I've found that a lot of Apple stuff only works with TKIP not AES. On many modem/routers AES is the default when using WPA/2. Change to TKIP, there's a fair bit about it in Google land.

Jeez, Mike, I'm gunna have to go and Google those terms!

Ron,
Looking at your signature picture and the amount of hair involved.
You need to check two things.
Smoke Theory of Electricity.
This forum discusses the electronic smoke theory, which can be seen escaping in your signature.
The other thing to postulate is the static electricity (dare I say halo) emanating from the display of hirsute "superiority" displayed in the signature.
Perhaps these two minor infractions are causing your grief with modern electronic "gizmos".
Did you suffer this sort of "when I purchase stuff it breaks" syndrome when distributors had points?
When "stuff" could be repaired not replace the module.