Hi, If you're using an Apple WiFi device like an Express, Extreme or Time Capsule, you can set it to WPA/Wpa2 Personal which may assist the Mini. I'm guessing that the Mini's WiFi card is having difficulties with the WPA2 protocol.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-07-18, at 1:28 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry this isn't strictly vo-related, but I'm having an odd problem. Ever > since my family got wifi back in 2005, we've used WEP and I've been the > unofficial tech guy of the house. Recently, I made the long-overdue switch to > WPA2 personal, and every device on the network is, to my knowledge, working > just fine... except my mac Mini. When I wake it from sleep, or sometimes > randomly as I'm using it, it drops my home wifi connection and instead > connects to the only open network it can find, one of those "guest" things > that require a password on a webpage to get into. With WEP enabled, this > never happened once, but now it happens multiple times per day. I've tried > channels 3 and 8, but switching once made no difference at all so I didn't > see the need to try more channels. I'm no router expert, but I know the > basics. Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be going on? Thanks in > advance for any help you can offer. > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
