Hi tim. Things for responding. I tried what you suggested ebooted
the router turned off and on airport. I also tried logging into
another account witht eh same results. One thing to note when I
bring up the status menu on my other account the first item it sees
is blue tooth status, this comes up right away. On my account the
first thing I see is the airport status, and it seems to be sluggish
when responding. Also when arrrowing away from it and to it like I
mentioned before. The fluctuations don't seem to be as noticeable as
before, but the sluggishness is there still. so I don't know.
Holly
On Sep 30, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
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
