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Do you have wireless connection drops?

  • Yes, I have a MB or MBP and use an Apple wireless router

    Votes: 1 4.5%
  • No, I have a MB or MBP and use an Apple wireless router

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Yes, I have a MB or MBP and use an non-Apple wireless router (linksys or something else)

    Votes: 10 45.5%
  • No, I have a MB or MBP and use an non-Apple wireless router (linksys or something else)

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • Total voters
    22

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I have a SRMB now with a Linksys wireless router. I have no connection problems. I am interested in the time capsule, but I see a lot of people complaining about wireless drops in their MB and MBPs. It seems to me that they are often using an Apple wireless router. So, I am looking for feedback via this poll, to gauge if the issue is the MB or if it's the router.

EDIT: I think I didn't label the poll well. I mean "Yes" = I experience network drops, "No" = I don't experience network drops.
 
At home I use an AEBS. It is rock solid and I get no wireless drops.

I also use my macbook at my gf's house. Over there they use a d-link router. My computer is the only one that disconnects. Their windows laptops all work fine. A while back it worked great when they weren't using an type of security. After I started dating her and bringing my laptop over I had told them to turn on the security (they are not computer gurus). As soon as I helped them turn on the WPA2, my computer started having issues. For the sake of security I would rather have issues than ask them to go back to an unsecured network. I was hoping that 10.5.2 would fix the issues but that wasn't the case. Looks like I'll be waiting for 10.5.3 (hopefully then and not some later update).
 
When I first brought it home two days ago, it couldn't connect to the wireless. I tried it at the coffee place outside my college the next day, worked fine. Updated OS X to 10.5.2 and went home, and it now connects flawlessly.

I'm using a non-apple router.
 
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