Hi Holly,
I am running an INTEL MacBook with an Airport Express (actually, two
of them), and am not experiencing the problems you've mentioned. I
was using the MacBook at school today and everything worked normally
as well. There was an Airport update about a week ago that should
have improved your Airport connectivity as well as there was some
modifications made in 10.4.8 to the Airport software that was to
improve connectivity as well. Sometimes so called improvements don't
do what they're supposed to though.
A couple of things you can try:
1. Often the Airport Base Station or other Wireless Base Station
device gets "out of wack" and it is a good idea to restart it. You
can use your Admin Interface to restart it or simply unplug it and
leave it off for 30 seconds or so then plug it back in. It will take
about 30 seconds to reboot as well.
2. You can turn Airport off in the Airport menu then restart it.
this only affects your machine and does not have any bearing on the
Base Station or other user's connections.
3. Go under your Network Utility in the Utilities folder, select EN1
as the interface and listen to its statistics. Depending on your
signal strength and proximity to the Base Station, you should see a
spped of anywhere from 11 to 54 MBPS. Preferably 54.
Hope this helps some.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
