[just for fun]
My wife and I are at our condo in Cha Am this week. (It’s a work trip, promise.) The LAN router here is an older AirPort Extreme which has performed flawlessly for several years. Yesterday my wife's MBA suddenly dropped the WiFi connection and wouldn’t reconnect. Something like, "The WiFi Network xxxx couldn’t be joined." All the other devices remained connected. The Airport is about a meter from the MBA. I finally got it to connected by turning the MBA WiFi off and back on several times. Case closed.
Not so fast. A while later I started gettting email messages from my iMac at home that the WiFi connection was down. I logged in remotely via ssh and sure enough en1 had no IP address. Tha home LAN uses a newer AirPort Extreme which has also performed well. It sits less than a meter from the iMac which is also connected to the Airport via Ethernet. I was able to verify that several other devices still had a WiFi connection.
I ended up using networksetup to turn WiFi off and back on and then to manually connect. Worked a charm. The WiFi is back up.
But, what are the odds that two computers 400K apart would nearly simultaneously lose WiFi at the two LANs which I control?
A bit spooky for me.
My wife and I are at our condo in Cha Am this week. (It’s a work trip, promise.) The LAN router here is an older AirPort Extreme which has performed flawlessly for several years. Yesterday my wife's MBA suddenly dropped the WiFi connection and wouldn’t reconnect. Something like, "The WiFi Network xxxx couldn’t be joined." All the other devices remained connected. The Airport is about a meter from the MBA. I finally got it to connected by turning the MBA WiFi off and back on several times. Case closed.
Not so fast. A while later I started gettting email messages from my iMac at home that the WiFi connection was down. I logged in remotely via ssh and sure enough en1 had no IP address. Tha home LAN uses a newer AirPort Extreme which has also performed well. It sits less than a meter from the iMac which is also connected to the Airport via Ethernet. I was able to verify that several other devices still had a WiFi connection.
I ended up using networksetup to turn WiFi off and back on and then to manually connect. Worked a charm. The WiFi is back up.
But, what are the odds that two computers 400K apart would nearly simultaneously lose WiFi at the two LANs which I control?
A bit spooky for me.