Connecting Nexus 7 to internet?

[laudinum]

It won't connect. At All.

What am I doing wrong?

What are you trying to connect to?

(I don't have this, but do have an Archos tablet and mine needs a Wi-Fi signal, cannot connect to a mobile network - ie nowhere for a SIM or microSIM to go.)

Yes, need a few more details I'm afraid :) What are you connecting to, and what have you tried so far?

I was trying to connect to our home broadband. (BT)

It transpires that the speed is so slow here that it took ages to load (about 40 minutes) but is working now. Mps is around 0.35 but sometimes goes crazy and ups to 1 mbs.

The broadband set up was not recognising the tablet then eventually it did.

Thanks.

Hi laudinum, I have the Nexus 7 and had the same problem! I googled madly only to find real techies giving head aching instructions which I had no hope of understanding .

I finally managed to connect by sitting next to the router and pressing the "secure connection" button on the router. I have a virgin netgear wireless router if that helps.

Thank you Iceflower!

I googled and it seems there is a problem, although I had no idea what the techies were talking about either.
I think if you enable other computers, it actually disables them via BT Home Hub. It did not help that I could not remember find the password so had to bypass which gives you a window of about 1 minute to set things up or it bans you for x amount of minutes, increasing in time the more you bugger things up.

If you link to the techspeak that makes no sense, I'll have a go at translating into plain English if you like? :)

techspeak

Thanks Naoko.

I'm not sure that page is relevant to your problem at all - having read it twice, I think that poster means 'BT' in the sense of 'Bluetooth', rather than British Telecom. Bluetooth is a method of transfering data wirelessly (like wi-fi) and can be used to share one device's internet connection with another device (for example, if you're somewhere without wifi, but you have a smartphone that has an internet connection over 3G, you could use bluetooth to 'tether', ie connect, it to your laptop, and that way the laptop would be able to go on the internet) , but that's not what you're trying to do here.

What you seem to have, if I understand it correctly, is a problem where your wi-fi network (from your BT router) was at first not recognising the tablet, but now it is, although it's really slow?

Thank you Naoko. I think I was in such a state trying to connect the Nexus that I did not pay attention to the fact that the 'BT' page was Australian.

I'm hopeless with the jargon of technology but you have clarified a lot.

The Nexus seems like a brilliant little tablet and worked really well in an urban area where the speed was so much faster than here.
There are huge problems with slow speeds in many rural areas yet there is no remedy in the near future according to BT (although they charge everyone for 'up to' 4 mbs).
Band speed fluctuates between 0.25 at worst and just over 1 at best.