airport issue all of the sudden…
ok, so I am at a loss - all of the sudden my wife’s airport card started seeing >50% packet loss when connecting to the wireless network in the house. What a pain in the butt! Anyone else ever see anything like this with OSX? I have the latest software from Apple but it will work sometimes, and then comes to an absolute halt.
Also, when running MacStumbler, I can only get 60 signal strength when I am less than 1 foot from our wirelss router. - oi vey! thoughts?
April 9th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Have you tried to power cycle your routers?
April 9th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
oh yes, definitely. In fact, I just went a got a new Netgear routher - 614 (i think) - still seeing some packet loss, I upgraded everything that apple says I need to update but still no luck - any other thoughts?
April 10th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I had an issue like this that my ISP said was a problem with my 3 computers and it required replacing the Cable modem. This is especially the case if you’ve already tried swapping out the access point. Two questions:
1) Has the low signal strength stopped since you swapped out the access point?
2) Do you have any other computers that are exhibiting similar symptoms?
If the answer to 1 is “yes” then most likely the signal strength was a problem with the network access point itself. If the answer to 1 is “no” then its probably something to do with the wireless HW in the computer.
If the answer to 2 is “yes” then most likely the issue is with the cable/dsl modem supplied by your ISP and it would require a call to them to get resolved. If the answer to 2 is “no” and you do have other computers then again most likely it is something to do with the wireless HW in the Macbook and a swing by your local Apple store with the same info that you are providing here would expedite the troubleshooting at their store.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
don’t use microwave.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Anonymous #2, I don’t use the microwave
Anonymous #1, when I replaced the wireless router, the signal strength did jump up to in the 80’s so that is a good thing, but here is the weird part now. It’s like the Mac is hanging when the DNS is trying to resolve. It takes seemingly forever to lookup or “finding http://www..com” then once it finds the site, it’s pretty quick in loading…and then sometimes, it will load the title of the site but the content hangs.. so weird.
I have my windows machine that works great, no problems at all and is much further away from the router too - so so weird. any thoughts?
April 17th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
I dont know if this helps but :
If you’re mac is airport extreme or has an intel processor, it was shipped with a wireless card capable of next gen wireless (n) the enabler software costs just £1.25 from apple. My macbook is much speedier now! Don’t know if you have already tried this or have a the right machine but it might help
April 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
A possibly useless observation, but… do you live in an apartment building or very close to your neighbors? And, if so, do you 1) have your wireless network secured, and/or 2) see other wireless networks when you click on the Airport icon in the top right of the Finder menu bar? If so, then maybe someone else recently either started hopping on to your network, or they set up a new wireless network which is taking yours down. I know that the routers are supposed to handle switching between channels, but maybe the other person’s wireless is illegally blanketing the spectrum?
Or maybe a neighbor is running their own microwave or somesuch… I used to have a wireless video setup (Terk LeapFrog, I think it was) that would fuzz out intermittently - turns out it was every time the neighbor used their microwave. And we were living in separate, unattached houses!
April 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Are u using cordless telephones on the same Frequency ? Did you try switching channels in the router? I have used Linksys and netgear in the past and the Linksys WRT54G was the best. Since switching to apple and the airport express I have had no problems in the house at all, only dropped signal once and just rebooted the wireless router.
April 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
hey michael, I do have a 2.4ghz phone and on my pc, it knocks me off all the time! It’s nuts. But that doesn’t seem to affect the macbook - i think it’s back up and running, but one thing that is funky is the fact that the DNS lookup of any site seems to take for ever, once it’s resolved a domain, it’s snappy but each time I go to a site it’s so painful! lol any ideas?
April 30th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Yeah experience same result.
Web pages load badly or contain corrupt data or images seems to be cut/corrupted.
running 10.4.8 (happened with 10.4.9 too)
getting between 7-30% packet loss.
Can ping DNS
Signal strength is normally 4-5 bars. However have notices times when it does drop to 2. This is not normal considering distance I am from airport but does not seem to related to web issue.
AP Express seems able to be able to be reset and configured fine.
Was odd comment yesterday about my airport being ‘compromised’ and now said i am not WPA compliant. even though i have airport express card
May 8th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Hey you don’t know what you’re talking about and you use horrible english.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
you all suck at running macs
June 16th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
why don’t yal just learn how to work a freakin makbuk