Bill , I'm wondering if your router needs to be replaced.
Friday, September 18, 20094:16 PMBill [email protected] >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 computer > >For 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 >_______________________________________________ >MacGroup mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
