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Dropping Wireless Connection

madforrit said:
I'm having the same problem - Powerbook 1.5 can't use the network after waking from sleep despite seeing the signal. Always fixes once I restart the router (D-Link DI624) by unplugging it and plugging it back in. I tried resetting it via the pinhole and that hasn't fixed the problem. As for changing the channel, it seems that the router has only one channel - 6. Anyone know how I can change this? It only gives me one option for the channel when I use the router's webpage config...
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I have the same router, and the same problem with it dropping the network after waking from sleep sometimes. I changed the channel, but it hasn't helped... here's the reason you're only seeing channel 6:

http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.a...C / DWL-2000AP_revB / DWL-2100AP / DWL-7100AP

I checked the "Use Interference Robustness" option under the Airport/wireless signal level menu - and I haven't had a problem since doing that (2 days ago). So, that may be helping but I'm not positive yet.
 
Hey kids...well...I went out and bought a SMC 'g' router and hooked it up three days ago. It was a bit of a pain to do, but I haven't had a dropped connection from the PowerBook with the extreme card or from the Dual G4 500 with the old Airport card since. But I must add a giant...."KNOCK ON WOOD."
 
yellow said:
There are a lot of report of the latest Panther update and Airport card update causing problems like this. Random dropping of WiFi connections. I too had this problem with my PowerBook. The solution, which still makes no sense to me, is to hard reset your base station. I hard reset my NetGear WiFi router and upgraded it's firmware and I haven't had the problem since.
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iu use netgear and have the same prob, how did u do that again?
 
wdlove said:
Here is a very interesting wireless network. I would love to be able to get ride of my cable.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html
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Nice!! .... I m sure he isn't using a netgear router .... Dropping connection while internetting is bad enough but loosing Spongebob mid way would be a disaster ... BTW. Would the guy be able to see what his neighbors are looking at?
 
I have a airport extreme base station and i had this same problem on both my macs. I fixed it by updating the firmware so it is not the company making it. I must have something to do with thhe macs themself
 
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