i pad

Or switch your personal hotspot on and pair to the pad via wifi.
Same but different.

Ah Kenny, what's wrong with your mind reading powers?
A lot of posts lately have assumed forumites have superpowers.....

i am talking 50 km out of Mt Surprise nth qld where i have to walk up to the top of a ridge to get one bar on my i phone.my wife just wants to use the i pad in the camp.all i wanted know is how other people get reception under these circumstanses.

i must have had a hard day at work, mind is slowing down

next question rrmix, what phone provider have you got.

a blue tick phone might have better reception in the bush then a iphone, also there might be a way to use a antenna booster on your iphone

rrmix
No that's not what you asked. So pardon the probing to be able to give you some relevant information.
Perhaps next time you could try to make it easier for us?

Jeez, Kenny. My ipad works okay at 41000 ft. Yours must be a pearler at over 60000ft. What plane do you fly? Space Shuttle? ;)
Some of our pilots use external GPS's even on 3G ipads for their mapping software, but I think it's mainly because the coating on the windows attenuates the signal a little.

J&R, I don't know the answer to lack of internet signal. I've heard of powered boosters that plug into iphones, but I've never seen one in action.....

thanks Adrian this patch seems to be exactly what i require, i have an external antenna so i'll report back in about a month