On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:12 , Lee Larson wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > >> Ok. Now I'm stumped, because rebooting the computer made everything hunky >> dory (without changing the network connection), yet turning the Airport on >> and off (to regrab a connection) did nothing. Even changing from the 5GHz to >> regular frequency did no good. The one thing that fixed the problem was the >> reboot. Why would that be? > > A few years ago I had exactly this same problem off and on and I finally > decided it was caused by my router (Netgear or Belkin, I've forgotten). It > drove me crazy for months, until I read that the older G and N routers made > before N was standardized had compatibility problems with some Apple machines > because the router maker guessed wrong about the final standard and Apple's > stack was pretty finicky. I upgraded to an Airport Extreme and all has been > well.
The router in question is a pretty new NetGear N router. I'll have to play with it when I get back down to Texas. It really is lightning fast when it is working (which has always been always until last night). Bill
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