Hi all,I've lately been having trouble with my router at home. My wife's white mac book often finds the router, gets a proper (not self- assigned) ip address, but then cannot hook up to the internet. My MBP recently (within the last week) started displaying the same symptoms. It is so bad that although the computer has a valid ip address for the range allowed by the router (192.168.1.something), my computer cannot even see the router.
In the past, renewing the DHCP lease fixed the problem. Now, even that won't fix things. Today it took me nearly 1 hour to get hooked up to the internet. None of the following worked:
. renewing the dhcp lease . setting a fixed ip address . going back to dhcp and renewing the lease. changing the channel that the router was broadcasting over (from another computer, of course) . deleting and recreating my airport connection under the Network Preference Pane
. unplugging the router, waiting, and plugging the router back in . rebooting my computerFor whatever reason, the internet connection only started working after I logged under another account, tried to get to a web page and failed, and then logged out of that user.
My router is a NetGear WGR814 v6 (which is rather old) using the g protocol only. I'm still using 10.5.8.
FWIW, I never had a lick of problems with my PowerPC alubook. This is more than a little annoying---does anyone have any hints? Bill
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