On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Chris N wrote: > Any input on this would be much appreciated. I've got a bunch of > Macs at home, ranging from a G4 400 (wireless) through a G4 dual > 1.25 (wired), G5 iMac (wired), Intel iMac (wireless) and a couple of > powerbooks/macbooks. I have a Comcast cable modem network at home > driven by a MaxPower (OWC) draft 802.11n wireless network. For the > older macs and powerbooks I have either PCI cards or PCMCIA adapters > running the manufacturers software and everything works well (except > iTunes video streaming of content that was not directly downloaded > fom the iTunes store - this broke quite a few versions ago and was > my reasoning for upgrading the network in the first place). The > problem comes when I try to use inbuilt Airport software to access > the network. The WEP passwords are correct, IP addresses are > assigned to the machines and the DNS addresses for Comcast are all > added. Sometimes on some machines I can get access to the internet > and sometimes I can't. And sometimes when I have access I randomly > lose it. This isn't machine specific, it is specific to the mode > being used to log on, and I'm not having any issue getting an IP > address assigned, so I am out of guesses. Any input would be much > appreciated - machines are either running 10.4.11 or 10.5.5 with the > latest versions of airport installed.
I had a very similar issue using an Apple Time Capsule 802.11n router. My situation was slightly different in that it mainly involved older 802.11b & 802.11g connections, but it WAS related to the WEP encryption. I did a lot of internet research trying to locate this issue, and the only solution that worked was to disable WEP encryption. That didn't bother me any, I had an unencrypted network my entire life before getting the Time Capsule, I don't mind sharing my connection with those who passby, and have nothing I'm ashamed of or need to protect. Unencrypted everything works and connects fine. I THOUGHT it was a bug in the Apple Time Capsule software, but your similar issue would seem to indicate it's in the client software, unless our issues are coincidence and related to our respective routers? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
