One Week...

...is all it took for the iTouch to go from a neat little gadget to a source of intense irritation. It has lost the Wi-fi signal in the house and is unable to get it back no matter what I try. I've visited plenty of forums trying to find the answer - apparently this is a common occurrence with Apple products - to no avail. It's extremely frustrating, as the biggest selling point was instant connectivity anywhere, and now I can't even get online in my own home.

It's obviously not the wireless network in my house, as both the laptop and the Eee connect just fine. There are literally pages upon pages of "fixes" and tricks to "help" the iTouch reconnect to the internet, but the most obvious fixes aren't helping. I'm left with either restoring the system and losing all my settings or bringing it back to the store (both are very popular "fixes").

Is this really how Apple handles things? It works for a week and then breaks? I mean, Windows applications also have pages upon pages of errors, but at least those fixes work. I'm stymied by this thing - and if I keep trying to fix it with no luck it's eventually going to get broken (OOG SMASH). If this is how their computing devices work you can count me a Windows fan from here on in. There is simply no excuse for this being an issue - not when I have two other devices that have been connecting without fail for years.

Color me very unhappy with the iTouch.

That is all.

UPDATE: I am a f**king moron. Let's just leave it that I was inputting the wrong security code. When I put in the correct code, it started working again. I don't know if it was restoring the iTouch or resetting the router that did it, but it's back working again...

I'm still not happy that it lost my internet connection after week, but it should have been an easy fix. I don't know if it was the router being reset or the iTouch being restored that did it, but now I know that one of the two should work. Next time, though, I start with the router...