RE: [Fed-Talk] AirPort Problems
RE: [Fed-Talk] AirPort Problems
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] AirPort Problems
- From: Basil A Decina <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:48:35 -0500
In reply to the original message...
Yes, I had the same problem with my new laptop but it might have
started under 10.4.4 --- even though I fixed it under 10.4.5 (when I
upgraded to the new laptop I did the "transfer old users/network
settings" migration from my old one).
Each time I switched locations back to my home WEP-protected wireless
(but not my corporate one) --- or whenever my laptop awoke from sleep
at home, I had to re-enter my 128-bit WEP key. Somehow it remembered
my corporate key but forgot my home WEP key (even though I re-entered
in different places: System Preferences -> Network Preferences and
directly into Internet Connect).
AppleCare didn't have a reason for this but in the course of talking
to them, we fixed it by doing the following...
- Opening up System Preferences -> Network Preferences
- Choosing the "Automatic" location (even though I don't use it)
- "Show"ing "AirPort" (which will show you a list of "preferred"
wireless networks)
- Choosing the wireless network you are having trouble with (for me
I just had to fix my home wireless, not my corporate wireless)
- Choosing "Edit" on that wireless net
- Then re-entering the WEP password there and "apply"ing it
The above fixed it for me --- since then, I can switch back-and-forth
between locations (and wake from sleeping) without having to re-enter
my WEP password.
Basil
At 11:31 AM -0500 2/27/06, LTC Skip Harborth wrote:
Not by me, but maybe the neighbors. But that doesn't explain the one at
work. We don't have anything cordless near the one for work.
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Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] AirPort Problems
Cordless phones in use by you or neighbors maybe?
Mike
On Feb 27, 2006, at 5:53 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Funny you should bring this up this weekend. Starting sometime
Saturday and continuing into Sunday, we experienced a drop-out of
sorts at home. For various reasons, we aren't using encryption on the
network. We do have an Airport Express to extend the range from one
end of the house to the other and the iMac at the remote end generally
has 1/2 - 3/4 signal strength. But, I've always had full strength on
the laptop in my office. This weekend that dropped to 1/2 or less and
the "remote" iMac lost connectivity altogether for about 36 hours. I
updated the Airport software and finally managed to get back to work
only after recycling power on the base unit. Prior to that, I only
had half strength even when I was within 15 feet of the unit. The
lone PC user in the house,
apparently, didn't experience any issues. Only the Macs. As you
say... hmmmmmmm.
Cheers,
Bob King
Boeing
760-725-6213
---- LTC Skip Harborth <email@hidden> wrote:
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Thanks.
One other question. On our closed network at work I keep seeing a lot
of noise on the network. Using iStumbler I see 10dB noise on the
network when we close the network but when we open the network the
noise goes away. Hmmmm...
Any ideas.
Skip
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On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:06 PM, Dave Hale wrote:
I have not seen those issues but I don't connect to any that use
encryption. I recommend calling AppleCare and getting the problem on
>> the books.
On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Skip Harborth wrote:
Has anybody been experiencing problems using wireless since loading
10.4.5?
I use one at home and we use one for demonstrations in the office
and we've been experiencing some rather strange drop outs. For some
reason my PowerBook doesn't connect to either network when I wake it
up and after I manually connect it just drops off for some
reason. Same thing happens on one of my co-workers PowerBook.
This happens using both my home AirPort and the one we use at work.
Both networks run on an Airport Extreme V5.7. The one at home is
WEP and the one at work is WPA2. The work network is closed and the
one at home isn't. We did a hard reset on the one at work, but that
didn't seem to help, we're still getting the drop offs and having to
manually connect to the network.
Any ideas?
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