I have been having awful problems getting my new MBP to play nice with my wireless network. When I first got the MBP, I was using an AX as my router, and was getting frequent connectivity drop-outs and slowdowns whenever anything else on my network was online. Since I was using DSL due to it being free, I decided to upgrade to Comcast and get some more throughput. This however, exacerbated my issues. I tried another router, a Netgear WNR2000 configured with WPA and this one worked, but my MBP would only fully connect if I had direct line-of-sight to the router. Any break in the LoS, and my connection would drop out (all the while showing full signal strength).
After weeks of troubleshooting, and NEVER having problems using WPA-only encryption, and having intermittent issues with the MBP I discovered that even my iPhone wouldn't fully connect to my network. It would show full signal strength but would drop out as soon as data transfer was requested. I dug around in the router a little bit more and discovered the "WPA + WPA2 encryption" setting and set it to that vice WPA and voila! Everything works now.
Everything I've read seems to point to Airport Extreme Cards and the iPhone being compatible with both WPA and WPA2 but this appears not to be the case in my situation. There is a very long thread in the MBP forums on apple.com where many people seem to have the same type of issues with the new MBPs. What's strange to me is that it would work fine when I had line-of-sight, which makes absolutely no sense to me. Eventually it stopped working, but for a period of time with no changes to the router or MBP, it would work as long as it had line-of-sight.
Very strange.
After weeks of troubleshooting, and NEVER having problems using WPA-only encryption, and having intermittent issues with the MBP I discovered that even my iPhone wouldn't fully connect to my network. It would show full signal strength but would drop out as soon as data transfer was requested. I dug around in the router a little bit more and discovered the "WPA + WPA2 encryption" setting and set it to that vice WPA and voila! Everything works now.
Everything I've read seems to point to Airport Extreme Cards and the iPhone being compatible with both WPA and WPA2 but this appears not to be the case in my situation. There is a very long thread in the MBP forums on apple.com where many people seem to have the same type of issues with the new MBPs. What's strange to me is that it would work fine when I had line-of-sight, which makes absolutely no sense to me. Eventually it stopped working, but for a period of time with no changes to the router or MBP, it would work as long as it had line-of-sight.
Very strange.