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I am typing this from my Mac OS X 10.5.8 w/ 4 gb 800 MHz DDR2 Sdram, 2.66 Ghz intel core 2 duo processor. Whew! That was a cyber mouthful.
So anyway, here is the deal: We have our Comcast wi-fi router upstairs. I am typing this downstairs. Three times today I have been online with this computer and suddenly BAM! No internet. There's no message given that the Internet is gone, down, banned, kablooey, taken over by TRON, etc. Just...nothing. If I'm on a webpage, and click to go somewhere else, it recognizes the page but all it does is loading...loading....loading....staying on the same page that I am trying to move away from at that time.
This has happened three separate times. Checked the router. The green light, though sometimes flickering, is on to indicate a wi-fi signal. Router lights are all on where they need to be on. Connections and cables all check out on the router, the Comcast box (we have Comcast cable-phone-internet all packaged together on the same.."signal?" "line?" "Whatever.").
So....what's weird about this, besides the fact that we use Comcast, is that my iPhone WORKS JUST FINE. It grabs the signal and everything. I repeatedly updated my frustration on Facebook through the iPhone as I waited and wondered about this Mac OS X.
The Mac is about two years old bought Christmas '08 as a Christmas present.
Why is it that my iPhone gets the signal and works fine but this Mac decides to take a nap on me from the Internet?
Thanks bunches.
It's not like this Mac does not RECOGNIZE that there is not a signal. I ahve the icon up top near the date and time and speaker and blah blah blah top right hand corner basically saying, "Hey, cool. You have a neato-Wifi connection. Let's use it!" But the data from that signal? "Huh? What? Who?"
Guys (and gals)? A little help here, if I may? This is frustrating to no end.
We do have a Nintendo "Wii" upstairs that if I was able to turn ghost and float up through the floor would find someone playing it throughout the day and the Wii box itself nearby. Would a "Wii" be interrupting the signal somehow? Only thing I can think of, stupid though it may sound.
I don't know enough about Macs yet----or at least how they work internally---to fix this myself. I do know about virtual memory but could only give you a basic definition. Right now, I just want to know about Macs and why this one decides to puke when it tastes my wi-fi signal.
Thanks.
So anyway, here is the deal: We have our Comcast wi-fi router upstairs. I am typing this downstairs. Three times today I have been online with this computer and suddenly BAM! No internet. There's no message given that the Internet is gone, down, banned, kablooey, taken over by TRON, etc. Just...nothing. If I'm on a webpage, and click to go somewhere else, it recognizes the page but all it does is loading...loading....loading....staying on the same page that I am trying to move away from at that time.
This has happened three separate times. Checked the router. The green light, though sometimes flickering, is on to indicate a wi-fi signal. Router lights are all on where they need to be on. Connections and cables all check out on the router, the Comcast box (we have Comcast cable-phone-internet all packaged together on the same.."signal?" "line?" "Whatever.").
So....what's weird about this, besides the fact that we use Comcast, is that my iPhone WORKS JUST FINE. It grabs the signal and everything. I repeatedly updated my frustration on Facebook through the iPhone as I waited and wondered about this Mac OS X.
The Mac is about two years old bought Christmas '08 as a Christmas present.
Why is it that my iPhone gets the signal and works fine but this Mac decides to take a nap on me from the Internet?
Thanks bunches.
It's not like this Mac does not RECOGNIZE that there is not a signal. I ahve the icon up top near the date and time and speaker and blah blah blah top right hand corner basically saying, "Hey, cool. You have a neato-Wifi connection. Let's use it!" But the data from that signal? "Huh? What? Who?"
Guys (and gals)? A little help here, if I may? This is frustrating to no end.
We do have a Nintendo "Wii" upstairs that if I was able to turn ghost and float up through the floor would find someone playing it throughout the day and the Wii box itself nearby. Would a "Wii" be interrupting the signal somehow? Only thing I can think of, stupid though it may sound.
I don't know enough about Macs yet----or at least how they work internally---to fix this myself. I do know about virtual memory but could only give you a basic definition. Right now, I just want to know about Macs and why this one decides to puke when it tastes my wi-fi signal.
Thanks.