Airport connectivity goes in and out

[sconnors]

I have the original MacBook from May 2006. For about the past 3 or 4 months I have noticed that my airport connectivity icon goes from full strength to nothing for a few seconds, then back to full strength. Most recently, I have had problems connecting at all. Sometimes it bounces from 1 line to 3 lines to no lines, and won't connect. I know my Internet is fine b/c I can plug in and my computer is the only one having this issue in my home.

Is it time to buy a new airport card or could it be something else? Internet Connect shows it's connected and the correlating signal strength.

Thoughts??

Thanks for your help!

Stacy

 

[DoFoT9]

there could possibly be some interference from neighbours with phones running on the same frequency?? is your airport 802.11n or g??

 

[sconnors]

I believe it's g (by defaut b/c I didn't know about n - only knew about b and g)

Stacy

there could possibly be some interference from neighbours with phones running on the same frequency?? is your airport 802.11n or g??

 

[DoFoT9]

I believe it's g (by defaut b/c I didn't know about n - only knew about b and g)

Stacy

ahh i see, its pretty easy to tell just go to spotlight and open up "Network Utility", on the main window choose "Network Interface (en1)" from the dropdown box (this is the wireless interface) and that will give you all the information you need to know.

mine currently says:

Link Speed: 54mbit/s

model: blaablaa (802.11a/b/g) meaning it supports all of those modes.



hope that helps.

i daresay there would be a neighbours 2.4GHz cordless phone that is interfering. there is a setting in "Airport Utility" that is "Use Interference Robustness", making it more stable (i think it checks for errors more or something like that) - that may help you a tad.

 

[sconnors]

That's exactly what mine says (in network utility)... I added the "internet robustness" - let's see how it goes

Thanks for helping

ahh i see, its pretty easy to tell just go to spotlight and open up "Network Utility", on the main window choose "Network Interface (en1)" from the dropdown box (this is the wireless interface) and that will give you all the information you need to know.

mine currently says:

Link Speed: 54mbit/s

model: blaablaa (802.11a/b/g) meaning it supports all of those modes.



hope that helps.

i daresay there would be a neighbours 2.4GHz cordless phone that is interfering. there is a setting in "Airport Utility" that is "Use Interference Robustness", making it more stable (i think it checks for errors more or something like that) - that may help you a tad.

 

[jbrown]

Sconnors - I have the same problems, did you find a cure?

cheers