I connect on the internet fine for 10 min after that I lose the connection. The only way I can get back is if I restart my mac. Turing airport off/on doesn't work. Please help.
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new penryn MBP internet problems!!!
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My new MBP arrived this morning; I just plugged it in and started setting it up (after using the Migration Assistant), and I find that the Airport Card is hosed.
It only intermittently detects my router (which is in the same room), and when it does it either ends up with a "self-assigned" (i.e., invalid) IP address or gets an address but connects to the Internet at about 1/10 the speed of a dial-up modem.
Ethernet works fine, by the way. I'm on hold with Apple tech support right now. 😡
It only intermittently detects my router (which is in the same room), and when it does it either ends up with a "self-assigned" (i.e., invalid) IP address or gets an address but connects to the Internet at about 1/10 the speed of a dial-up modem.
Ethernet works fine, by the way. I'm on hold with Apple tech support right now. 😡
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I had the same problem, and a firmware update to the newest Draft N spec for my Linksys fixed the issue. The router itself belongs to your university? Then it's probably them who needs to update their product - not necessarily an Apple problem I'm afraid. I know it was a harrowing 10 minutes while I tried to figure out what needed fixing to get mine going, hope your problem gets solved!
I just hope it's not my macbook pro that has a problem. Although I still have 1 year warranty from apple.
Is there any interference in your area? What I mean is, is there perhaps other 2.4GHz signals on that is using the same Channel?
Just FYI... but I doubt this would be the cause. I know wireless land phones that operate on 2.4GHz can easily interfere... mine does, have to just about always hit the channel change button once when I turn it on, otherwise it messes up my wifi.
I'm not sure on OS X but I believe there is some form of Stumbler program that can view what wifi are up in your vicinity. I know on PC its called Net Stumbler. (Sorry as I'm rather new to OS X, but I recall seeing it in the past.)
Oh curiousity question, which type of wireless network are you connecting to? G, B, N?
But yeah, as DocSmity said, it might be a firmware issue. 🙁
Just FYI... but I doubt this would be the cause. I know wireless land phones that operate on 2.4GHz can easily interfere... mine does, have to just about always hit the channel change button once when I turn it on, otherwise it messes up my wifi.
I'm not sure on OS X but I believe there is some form of Stumbler program that can view what wifi are up in your vicinity. I know on PC its called Net Stumbler. (Sorry as I'm rather new to OS X, but I recall seeing it in the past.)
Oh curiousity question, which type of wireless network are you connecting to? G, B, N?
But yeah, as DocSmity said, it might be a firmware issue. 🙁
I had the same problem, my dated netgear wgr654v5 and my new mbp didnt want to work together in wifi, ethernet was fine. Was on the phone with 
tech support and ended going to the store picking up Airport Extreme. Now airport extreme works fine with mbp, but all my pc laptops are f##ked because they only do g or b, which AE supports as well, but for some reason my PCs on wifi cannot acquire the IPs, so consequently Im not the happiest of the campers right now as well...😡
tech support and ended going to the store picking up Airport Extreme. Now airport extreme works fine with mbp, but all my pc laptops are f##ked because they only do g or b, which AE supports as well, but for some reason my PCs on wifi cannot acquire the IPs, so consequently Im not the happiest of the campers right now as well...😡Well, it turns out my crappy connection was due to two things:
1) My new MacBook Pro didn't think too highly of my 4-year-old Netgear 802.11b router.
2) I used Apple's Migration Assistant to move my files over from my PowerBook G4 to my MBP, and apparently something in my /Library folder was mucking up something having to do with Airport -- because when I tried logging in under a freshly created "guest" account, it worked much better.
So I got a newer "g" router for $40, and it seems to be better. Then I did a clean install of Leopard on the MBP and will not be using Migration Assistant, at all. Everything's going to be copied over from my old PB the old-fashioned way.
1) My new MacBook Pro didn't think too highly of my 4-year-old Netgear 802.11b router.
2) I used Apple's Migration Assistant to move my files over from my PowerBook G4 to my MBP, and apparently something in my /Library folder was mucking up something having to do with Airport -- because when I tried logging in under a freshly created "guest" account, it worked much better.
So I got a newer "g" router for $40, and it seems to be better. Then I did a clean install of Leopard on the MBP and will not be using Migration Assistant, at all. Everything's going to be copied over from my old PB the old-fashioned way.
I had the same problem, my dated netgear wgr654v5 and my new mbp didnt want to work together in wifi, ethernet was fine. Was on the phone with
I guess as a work around you could always plug both routers in. Be sure to pick a different channel & SSID. Hopefully they won't interfere with each other.
I'm still using my old 2001 802.11B linksys router (BEFW11S4). works fine. I didn't use migration. I'm too old school.