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- Powerbook 17" 1.5GHz, 2GB, 160GB Momentus; iMac 24" 3.06GHz, 2GB; iPhone 2.5G 8GB; iPod 5G 60GB
Over the last couple of days I keep losing network connectivity on my Powerbook. I'm running through a Linksys WAG54G router on ADSL.
The symptom is, I lose access to anything *outside the router* - ie on the internet. I can still access my own network and web server. This happens several times a day, seemingly at random. I can't ping anything in the big wide world, only what's inside my network.
This points to a router problem, and I thought this was the case to start with, but none of the two PC clients in my network have this problem - it's just the Mac. If I release the DHCP lease on the Mac's IP address, from the router, then it reconnects and works fine. I've not yet tried renewing the DHCP lease from the Mac end, as it only happens sporadically, and I've not got that far in testing.
This does sound to me like a Linksys issue, but any ideas why it would affect the Mac and not the PCs on the network?
Thanks,
David
The symptom is, I lose access to anything *outside the router* - ie on the internet. I can still access my own network and web server. This happens several times a day, seemingly at random. I can't ping anything in the big wide world, only what's inside my network.
This points to a router problem, and I thought this was the case to start with, but none of the two PC clients in my network have this problem - it's just the Mac. If I release the DHCP lease on the Mac's IP address, from the router, then it reconnects and works fine. I've not yet tried renewing the DHCP lease from the Mac end, as it only happens sporadically, and I've not got that far in testing.
This does sound to me like a Linksys issue, but any ideas why it would affect the Mac and not the PCs on the network?
Thanks,
David