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| Thread ID: 123400 | 2012-02-22 06:43:00 | Strange MAC problem. | wainuitech (129) | Press F1 |
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| 1260685 | 2012-02-22 06:43:00 | Okey dokey you MAC experts :nerd: -- whats wrong with these :) -- any serious suggestion welcome. Jokes I have plenty of :D A customer has a mixture of both MAC's and windows based computers. Over the last week, Suddenly, the two MAC's ( MACbooks - approx 2-4 months old) for some reason are dropping the wireless internet connections at complete random times and separate from each other. Before last week, they were rock solid all the time. *The times can go any where from 1 minute to 30 minutes after starting. Reboot them and away they go again in the same cycle. *The signal strength indicators are between 50 - 100% of the time, so its not a range problem, in fact the range actually says its fine even when they have disconnected. *The windows based wireless or wired devices are rock solid 100% , they don't lose any connections at all. All standard things like resetting the router, rebooting the router have been tried - no difference, its ONLY the MAC's that are playing up. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1260686 | 2012-02-22 07:34:00 | osxdaily.com Try the above link for some info, |
plod (107) | ||
| 1260687 | 2012-02-22 07:37:00 | Yeah it's generally to do with the mac not liking the way the router wants to work. A little tweaking in system prefs usually fixes. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1260688 | 2012-02-22 07:44:00 | Thanks for that link Plod, (and comment Icow) I'll look into those, some I have already done with no positive effect. It seems strange why TWO perfectly working MAC's both at the same time decided to play up with the exact same problem. One was purchased early Jan, the other one was purchased in October last year, both working fine till last week. First thought would be some sort of update caused the problem. ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1260689 | 2012-02-22 07:52:00 | * Delete the com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist and com.apple.internetconfig.plist files from ~/Library/Preferences * Trash your home directories SystemConfiguration folder and reboot – Remove all files within ~/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ and reboot your machine. Make sure you delete the proper folder, this is in your home directory. The above is from osxdaily.com What os is it? |
plod (107) | ||
| 1260690 | 2012-02-22 08:42:00 | Have a look at this link. I assume they are running OS X Lion osxdaily.com |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 1260691 | 2012-02-22 08:53:00 | have an obligatory 'it's because they're macs' joke. Is the router a cheap one? Could be the macs refusing to work with cheap, affordable equipment. Have you tried turning off all the windows devices while the macs are around? They could be feeling insecure around their superiors. alternatively, is it possible to give em a test with a linux distro? Are there any unix systems that run on macs aside from macs own? |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1260692 | 2012-02-22 08:58:00 | I'm going to say that it's to do with apple hardware being incompatible largely with auto settings on some routers. I had a similar problem but while dual booting with xp not OSX. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1260693 | 2012-02-22 09:01:00 | It was a problem in the 10.7.0 but was fixed for me in 10.7.1 | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1260694 | 2012-02-22 09:23:00 | alternatively, is it possible to give em a test with a linux distro? Are there any unix systems that run on macs aside from macs own?Debian runs on macs, along with more than a few other architectures. There is live images available but not certain if there is a mac one. I looked at an ipad with similar issues but more intermittent, couple times a day, and every other device works fine. Turning the WLAN off then on again on the ipad reconnects it. Have yet to get a chance to try a different router. |
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