Once you move beyond connecting to a simple home Wi-Fi network or using 3G data, you'll want to read networking expert Glenn Fleishman's discussion of how to integrate your iPad into more-complex networks and keep its data safe from prying eyes. Along with offering advice about Wi-Fi and 3G connections, Glenn explains how to protect your data in transit, and how to
set up Bluetooth for various types of connections, including an
iPhone personal hotspot, a wireless keyboard, and peer-to-peer pairing.
Covers iOS 4.3, original iPad and iPad 2, and GSM and CDMA.
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Inside, you'll find advice and steps for how to:
- Set up an iPhone personal hotspot so that you can put any iPad on the Internet.
- Connect to a Wi-Fi network at work, home, or when at a public hotspot.
- Tweak a Wi-Fi network to give your iPad a faster connection.
- Connect to Wi-Fi using secure connections—learn about the security pros and cons of MAC address filtering, WEP, WPA, WPA2, and VPNs.
- Connect with 3G: This topic is most detailed in its discussions of plans from AT&T and Verizon Wireless in the United States, but it also takes a global perspective, with brief details about some data plans outside the United States and what to consider when traveling to a different country with your iPad.
- Monitor and limit 3G data usage to save on your data plan.
- Connect to Bluetooth peripherals such as keyboards and headsets, and do tethering and peer-to-peer pairing.
- Understand what's at risk and protect the private passwords, documents, and data stored on your iPad.
- Take preventative action: Get ideas for installing third-party remote-tracking software and turn on Apple's "Find My iPhone."
- Find out how to use Find My iPhone if your iPad is lost or stolen.
