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txa1265

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Aug 15, 2002
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Corning, NY
Have you suddenly found yourself unable to connect to your home network but can still connect at work, or the other way around?

Confused because everything else works just fine?

Frustrated after resetting settings, rebooting, restoring your Mini, and playing around with your home network setting ... all to no avail?

You are not alone - apparently it IS possible for the 2.4GHz WiFi antenna to die and leave the 5GHz antenna working just fine ... and it seems to be a fairly common failure.

If this happens to you, I recommend that you hit an Apple store if possible, as I have a colleague in another city who had these issues and walked out of the store with a replacement iPad in 10 minutes.

Myself? I detail the issue more here, but basically I discovered the issue FOUR WEEKS ago, and in spite of constantly working to get it resolved only got a replacement YESTERDAY. Ugh - and that required me escalating TWO levels above normal advisor.

My issue is solved (for now), but I wanted to post because I see so many issues reported here that sound familiar and may or may not be related. Feel free to ask questions if you have any ...
 
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