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[RESOLVED]I just don't get it

I think trying it on another network is a good idea. You might also try using a USB wireless card if you have one just to see if it's the Mac's wifi. Also I didn't see if you tried, but disable dhcp and use a static ip.

Neither of those suggestions solves your problem but may send you down a different troubleshooting path.
 
Could it be the number of wireless connections permitted to connect at a time? I have a limit of 3 on mine...

But also try it on another network to make sure it's not your card.
 
Just wondering, but while connected to ethernet did you run software update?

There could be an airport card update since the store can't update the computers in the box.
 
I did run software update via ethernet. I am actually typing this on wifi right now at my house. Like I said it works intermittently. I am heading to a friends house in a few minutes to test on her connection and it if works well I will just go to best buy and get the airport extreme. If it doesn't work then I will just go exchange this mbp for another one. The fact that it connects sometimes makes me think it might not be a hardware problem, but I'm far from knowledgable about those sort of things. As far as the other devices connected, I shut everything else down so the mbp was the only device utilizing wireless. Also I have attempted at giving it an ip address manually with no success. Will keep you guys updated. Thanks for all the help.
 
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So I can confirm it is working perfectly at my friends house. I am going to best buy time now to get an airport extreme. Will update after that.
 
Richard1028 said:
Why don't you just call Netgear and have them walk you through things?
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Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Netgear's telphone help line a fee based service. I'm not sure if the OP feels that they need to keep thier spending in check to make payments or such for the MBP. I don't remember, but if it helps the OP, we had TWO Netgear routers go bad on us. We now have, I think a Zyxel. Very little problems for me actually, my sister, mom, and dad have more problems than I do, just a few hiccups here and there for me.

Good luck, OP! Please let us know how this turns out.
 
So just got back from best buy with my brand new airport extreme. Took about 5 minutes to get the whole thing set up. Everything is working, and working well. Noticeable difference in speed with the wireless n as well. Everything is hooked up perfectly. 2 iphones, an ipod touch, 3 windows computers, 2 tv's, a blu ray player, my amazon kindle and of course the mbp. I guess the old router will go to the grandparents house for when i go visit. Thanks for all the help guys. I knew there was a reason I loved this site.
 
I got an Airport Extreme with my Christmas giftcard money from Best Buy and I have YET to restart it since I hooked it up. Plus it was my first N-speed router, so my ping is excellent in WoW (lol) and I used it to hook up an external HDD for time machine + network video streaming. It's quite great!
 
i had an old linksys router that did the same thing a little while ago. we bought a new one and works fine now. im trying to get my dad to buy an airport extreme. i bought my own but use it in college.
 
Mangos86 said:
So just got back from best buy with my brand new airport extreme. Took about 5 minutes to get the whole thing set up. Everything is working, and working well. Noticeable difference in speed with the wireless n as well. Everything is hooked up perfectly. 2 iphones, an ipod touch, 3 windows computers, 2 tv's, a blu ray player, my amazon kindle and of course the mbp. I guess the old router will go to the grandparents house for when i go visit. Thanks for all the help guys. I knew there was a reason I loved this site.
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Now just plug in an external hard drive and give yourself a nice NAS/TM backups and iTunes media server. Enjoy!
 
Strangely enough, I just purchased an Airport Extreme today and just finished setting it up. So far, loving it! Very easy.
 
I coulda told you it was the router and not the Mac from the beginning without any of that info or scientific testing.

Most routers are crappy in the world in general and a lot of people are due for a router upgrade in general.

99% chance you wouldn't have gotten a "faulty" Mac (impossible, too rare)

and also 65% chance anyones router is bad in general.

Crispy choice in getting the airport extreme.
 
my router through rogers has a limit of I think 10 wireless devices and as you described, you have lots of them on your router so try disconnecting some
 
I have set up 3 Netgear DGN1000 routers now, and they are all a total pain in the arse.
The system for allocating fixed internal addresses is totally broken so I cannot permanently assign an address to each device and the Netgear usually cocks up assigning them leaving me with conflicts.
Known issue. I will not be buying any more of Netgears garbage.
 
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