really weird disconecting?

[ki99]

seems kind of hard to explain:

my wireless seems to stop being connected without losing a signal, randomly lately, i will just loose my connection, but my signal still shows it's full, and the internet connection says i am connected, but i can't access any sites, or download anything (firefox - azureus). i need to have my computer right by the router, turn it and the modem off, and back on, as well as airport, with the macbook right beside the router.

i have a 2nd Gen macbook, i'm don't know anything about airport, but my 'about this mac' says it's an airport extreme card, firmware 1.1.8.5

any help?

 

[Macbooker15]

yeah, the same thing happens to me!

 

[jbeals]

I have a similar problem. I lose my internet connectivity without losing any wireless strength. I have to turn off my airport car d and then turn it back on again.

When did you get your MacBook and what type of wireless router are you using? I am curious to know if your set-up is similar to mine.

 

[SteveMBP]

Not that this probably matters but what routers are you all using?

 

[mathogre]

Not that this probably matters but what routers are you all using?

Yeah I think it matters. Good catch. It probably also matters what type of security you use for wireless connections.

I have a D-Link DI-624 wireless router. A few OS X updates ago, WPA-PSK stopped working. One update later and all was fine. The most recent update seems to have somewhat hosed the wireless logic. At first I thought it was interference with my iPhone, but the iPhone is impervious to the problem (connecting to my net via WiFi). Googling the problem shows it may be a partial recurrence of the past problem.

If you use WPA-PSK, you might need to use a WEP shared key for now. <*The Math Ogre ducks the onslaught of responses to a Bad Security Practice.*> On WPA-PSK, my connection would be good for some short limited period of time. It has nothing to do with what I was downloading (grabbed a 200M+ podcast w/o a problem). It would simply die and still show I was connected.

My guess is that on the next OS X update it will be fixed. At that point you should switch back to WPA-PSK.

Hope this helps!

 

[lifeafter2am]

Thats weird because I HAD problems with it, but with the latest couple of updates it seemed to have solved itself. I am using WPA-PSK on my MacBook Pro, all up to date, Linksys router. Maybe its a router specific issue?

 

[BlackCivic]

i had a similar problem as you guys... when i connect to wireless network and then try to connect to my network from home it wont' connect even though it shows full strength for a signal... problem is you are not getting an ip address... i recommend take a look at the wireless FAQ page, or when all else fails, remove all of your preferred wireless networks, and as you make contact with each network re-add them... Problem i had was with a corrupt preferred network in my preferred networks list...

 

[mathogre]

Thank you! That's interesting. Will try that.