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E-PrinceThe Office of Information Technology blocked roughly 25 iPads from the University’s network after the tablets caused network problems when trying to connect to the Internet, Steven Sather, OIT’s associate chief information officer and director of support services ...(back to the article)
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Funny, the University’s IT folks claimed to have the exact same problem with iPhones a year ago (see http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/02/24/22868/) but eventually got over it. More conspicuously, no other similarly sized university networks seems to be having these problems. Here’s a little hint for our IT people: if the iPad DHCP client is causing problems for your network, and nobody else is having this problem, the problem is in your crummily configured network—not in the iPad. What’s it going to take for us to finally get some competent people in charge at OIT who will spend their time fixing their problems, rather than whining and blaming Apple for what seems to be a uniquely Princeton problem?
I wouldn't be so certain this isn't an Apple problem. It seems other people have had problems with their iPads and getting IP via wireless connections. See the last posting at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?thread... for details. Also, see the one above it where "Golfboy" dumbed down his home router to 801.11b to get his connection to work.
You don't know the first thing about networking, I see. The fact that Apple is releasing devices with a defective implementation of a protocol first published in 1997 is entirely Apple's fault.
Further documentation on the issue is available at http://www.net.princeton.edu/announcements/ipad....
Signed,
A non-alum who is not employed by Princeton, directly or indirectly.
Yes, the iPad has a bug in its DHCP implementation, but if that is bringing down your network, then YOU have a problem.* Punishing users is unacceptable.
*Also note that it is entirely possible that the DHCP server is misbehaving in some way that affects the iPad more than other devices. That only Princeton seems to be having trouble with this makes this entirely plausible.
That sucks... use puvisitor... once that stops working, PAY $60 a month (like I do) for a verizon mifi pad... i'm generally using verizon internet anyway, since it's waaay faster than the university.
OIT is full of incompetent misfits that couldn't make it in the corporate world. Hardly any networking works well on campus...and you can't blame Apple on the continuous problems that all devices experience...aka horrible slow network performance.