I also have an iPad2. Though it works fine when I have connectivity, Apple products don’t support Adobe Flash video because Steve Jobs didn’t like it so can’t watch anything with that format.
Yup, there’s that, too.
YouTube has gone heavily for Flash videos which is a real pain in the neck.
At this point, I use it in the bedroom to surf occasionally and take it with me in the car for use with my iPhone hotspot if I need to see bigger maps or photos.
Oh, and I read Kindle books on it, too.
Apple desktop products support Flash just fine. Apple mobile products do not but the reason is Flash was, and continues to be, a CPU hog and a memory hog. Both are bad for a battery operated device with relatively small memory.
"Didn't like it" as in "battery hog and security nightmare". H.264 is far more secure and power-efficient, and Jobs didn't want to Apple mobile devices to be accused of poor battery life when the problem was Flash.