On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Chris N wrote:
> Folks, > > 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. > > Thanks > > Chris > > Chris, Don't know if this will help, I had my wireless phone within three feet of my base station and whenever I answered it it would interrupt the transmission. Had to re-establish each time. > > > > > > John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com If there are no dogs in Heaven, when I die I want to go where they went.ยจ --Will Rogers extreme positive = (ybya2) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
