I have been living with a router bug. I don't recall having this issue with my old g4. I have a late '09 macbook. Seems like the last six months or so my wifi will just drop off. The wife and her PC continue to happily chug along. I have to turn off my computers wifi and turn it back on again and things go back to normal. Its an intermittent issue that I cant trace it to anything I am doing. I have changed settings on the A/P but same thing. It is an older Netgear wgr614. I have thought about replacing it. But I don't think its the problem. I think its the O/S. Maybe an update trashed something OR bug in the update.
Similar thing has happened at the school board. A batch of ipod touches would not connect to our wireless network (both Apple wifi and Nortel wifi). Reset to factory, special configurations, nothing worked. But if you take them to McDonalds, supposedly the connect and work. Strange. Brian O' On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Bill Rising wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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