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Setting Up an Internet Connection
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Forgetting a Wi-Fi Network
After you’ve connected to a Wi-Fi network once, your iPad will try to automatically
connect to it in the future. This can be handy the next time you need to use that
particular Wi-Fi network. However, if you find your iPad trying to latch on to a Wi-Fi
network that you don’t want to join, you can have your iPad forget that network.
Forgetting a network is especially useful when a Wi-Fi connection is very slow or
doesn’t work at all (many Wi-Fi networks in hotels or airports allow you to connect
but require payment, for example).
To forget a Wi-Fi network, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Networks settings screen appears, as shown earlier in
Figure 10-1.
3. Tap the white arrow inside the blue circle that appears to the right of the
network you want your iPad to forget. The network info screen appears.
4. Tap Forget this Network at the top of the screen.
5. Tap either Forget or Cancel when prompted.
Connecting to a 4G Cellular Network
If you have the 4G version of the iPad, you have the option of connecting to the
Internet through a 4G cellular telephone network. Depending on your cellular tele-
phone provider, you can purchase 4G access on a monthly basis for a fixed fee that
gives you a fixed amount of data.
To set up a 4G account on your iPad, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Cellular Data. The Cellular Data settings screen appears, as shown in
Figure 10-2.
3. Tap the Cellular Data on/off switch to make sure it readsON.
4. (Optional) Tap the Data Roaming on/off switch to turn it ON or OFF. (Data
Roaming means that your iPad constantly checks the Internet for email mes-
sages, and, in many countries, each time it checks the Internet you could
incur a fee.)
5. Tap View Account. The Cellular Data Account window appears, as shown in
Figure10-3.
6. Type in the required information and choose a data plan.
Q NOTE: To sign up for a data plan, you must type in a credit card num ber. If you
are in an area where you can’t get 4G cellular tele phone access, you will have
to wait to sign up for a 4G data plan when you can access a cellular network.