Grrr mumble iPad

[thistlechaser]

It took me 35 minutes before I was finally able to reach the ever so graphics heavy Google main page. I haven't been able to successfully load a page other than that in an hour and a half. I still have the same 0-3 (generally 1 or less) bars as this morning, but suddenly no pages will load.

I have 14 days to return this thing (so 11 or so left), and I lose 10% of my purchase price if I return it. Plus postage, I'm sure, and it's a darned heavy little thing. So if I return it, I'm out about $100, plus all the time I've spent waiting and dealing with this, stressing over it, and the ever so fun trip to the mall yesterday. (Which I won't repeat, so I'll be out the $70 more for the case and special earphones.)

Mumble. I'll keep it through Friday (the end of jury duty week) and then decide over the weekend what I'm going to do. I was willing to deal with slow-as-hell loading pages, but totally not working is just pointless.

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[tersa.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The AT&T network in the Bay Area is saturated due to all the iPhones and now iPads.

(And so I don't have to make a new comment:
Not to mention, as you're probably familiar with, that just the physical environment of the Bay Area makes cell reception for all carriers spotty in non-predictable places.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I was suspecting something like that. I wonder why it explains that I was barely limping along this morning, then this afternoon suddenly nothing worked -- more people trying in the afternoon instead of early morning hours when they were all asleep?