Wireless doesn't work in different country

adamshearer · Apr 27, 2011

Did a quick search and couldn't find this in another thread, so hopefully I'm not duplicating. I live in Canada, and was in the US this past weekend. I used my laptop on the free wifi at the airport in canada, but when I got off the plane in the US it connected, looking like everything was fine, and then had the ! over the status bars saying there was an issue. When I tried to troubleshoot it said I had to restart the router to see if that fixed it (obviously I couldn't in the airport). When I got to the house I was staying at, I could plug in to the router to get on the internet, but wireless STILL wasn't working, even when I DID reboot the router and modem. Then when I got back on Canadian soil, internet was fixed again.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, or know a fix for it? I'd be greatly appreciative!

codda · Apr 27, 2011

adamshearer said:
Did a quick search and couldn't find this in another thread, so hopefully I'm not duplicating. I live in Canada, and was in the US this past weekend. I used my laptop on the free wifi at the airport in canada, but when I got off the plane in the US it connected, looking like everything was fine, and then had the ! over the status bars saying there was an issue. When I tried to troubleshoot it said I had to restart the router to see if that fixed it (obviously I couldn't in the airport). When I got to the house I was staying at, I could plug in to the router to get on the internet, but wireless STILL wasn't working, even when I DID reboot the router and modem. Then when I got back on Canadian soil, internet was fixed again.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, or know a fix for it? I'd be greatly appreciative!

No idea...except being in a different country has nothing to do with it.

unfortunately · Apr 27, 2011

Can confirm that being in another country has nothing to do with it. I bought my MBP in the states and routinely travel back and forth between Mexico and the US with no difference in the operation of WiFi.

adamshearer · Apr 27, 2011

well it was a coincidence then, doesn't change the fact that something screwy was happening with my wifi, and I have no idea what it was

anyone experience anything similar to this? normally I find my mac is better than anything else at finding and accepting wifi's yet every other computer, phone, anything connected no problem, yet the mac had that stupid ! over the status and asked to trouble shoot one second, and the second I get back it works right away. seems so strange to me..

BrianLachoreVPI · Apr 27, 2011

Really sounds like something with your network settings - as if you couldn't pull an address for some reason. Do you have DHCP enabled? Do you have a statically assigned IP address for your laptop? Do you have it set up to use a specific proxy for some reason?

If you try another router in your country besides your own - I'm guessing you'll see the same symptoms - and it's very likely your settings.

adamshearer · Apr 27, 2011

that's just it though, I could use it in the airport in Toronto, I use it at libraries, work, home, everywhere. In the states I couldn't use it at the house I was at, the airport, or a coffee shop, and I hadn't changed any settings.. its almost as if there was an equivalent of "data roaming" or something was turned on.. it was so weird.

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