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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