Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.
Hello I am setting up an Airport Express to act as a bridgemode repeater for a wired network (SonicWall Router etc). The Express is 7.5.2 and works fine with WPA2Personal security. My SnowLeopard laptop happily stores the network creds and reconnects without issue. When I close the network I am no longer able to connect to it - connection timeout. The network name has been pasted (from the Airport Utility setup) into a TextEdit document, password also; so I am pretty sure I am getting it correct. So I can simply copy paste when connecting to the closed network. Seems odd, Any thoughts? Stephen --- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. --- John Kenneth Galbraith -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.
Hi Stephen, Just quickly as I'm heading out for the day, two suggestions. Is the Network Hidden? If so try with with Network 'Visible'. Or try changing the Channel. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 17/09/2011, at 5:48 AM, Stephen Wonfor wonf...@wonfuji.com wrote: Hello I am setting up an Airport Express to act as a bridgemode repeater for a wired network (SonicWall Router etc). The Express is 7.5.2 and works fine with WPA2Personal security. My SnowLeopard laptop happily stores the network creds and reconnects without issue. When I close the network I am no longer able to connect to it - connection timeout. The network name has been pasted (from the Airport Utility setup) into a TextEdit document, password also; so I am pretty sure I am getting it correct. So I can simply copy paste when connecting to the closed network. Seems odd, Any thoughts? Stephen --- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. --- John Kenneth Galbraith -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
long wait on Macbook Air order
Hi WAMUGers I finally bit the bullet and ordered a built to order MacBook Air 2 or 3 weeks ago (through my usual education reseller). I expected a 2 or 3 week wait at worst. I have just been told maybe end of this month - that will be a 4 or 5 week wait! The australian apple online store indicates 3 business days for the exact same order. Strange? Any ideas please? cheers Blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.me.com/blitto I haven't lost my mind.. ...it's backed up on disk somewhere! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Scam with .zip file I haven't seen before
Good morning all, I didn't have to think about this much as I haven't made any such transactions in a very long time. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com Begin forwarded message: The ACH transaction (ID: 22989216), recently sent from your bank account (by you or any other person), was rejected by the Electronic Payments Association. ### Canceled transaction Transaction ID: 22989216 Reason of rejection See details in the report below Transaction Reportreport_1609.pdf.zip (ZIP archive, Adobe PDF) ### 13450 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 100 Herndon, VA 20171 (703) 561-1100 2011 NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association .zip exe file attached -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Mac training pricing
From some advertising I received yesterday Operating Systems Training TNG0010 Windows 7 Made Easy with Dan Gookin 4.5 hrs $39 TNG0011 Basic Training for Mac OSX Snow Leopard 1 hr 42 min $29 The Windows training is $8.66 per hour, while the Mac training is $17.60 per hour. Any ideas why the Mac training is over twice as much per hour? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.
Ronni Works fine when visible. Invisible is another tale. I'll try alternate channels next week... Stephen -- You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. - John von Neumann On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Stephen, Just quickly as I'm heading out for the day, two suggestions. Is the Network Hidden? If so try with with Network 'Visible'. Or try changing the Channel. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 17/09/2011, at 5:48 AM, Stephen Wonfor wonf...@wonfuji.com wrote: Hello I am setting up an Airport Express to act as a bridgemode repeater for a wired network (SonicWall Router etc). The Express is 7.5.2 and works fine with WPA2Personal security. My SnowLeopard laptop happily stores the network creds and reconnects without issue. When I close the network I am no longer able to connect to it - connection timeout. The network name has been pasted (from the Airport Utility setup) into a TextEdit document, password also; so I am pretty sure I am getting it correct. So I can simply copy paste when connecting to the closed network. Seems odd, Any thoughts? Stephen --- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. --- John Kenneth Galbraith -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: long wait on Macbook Air order
On 17/09/2011, at 7:55 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi WAMUGers I finally bit the bullet and ordered a built to order MacBook Air 2 or 3 weeks ago (through my usual education reseller). I expected a 2 or 3 week wait at worst. I have just been told maybe end of this month - that will be a 4 or 5 week wait! The australian apple online store indicates 3 business days for the exact same order. Strange? Any ideas please? cheers Blitto Hi Rod I'll try answer this without my clouded judgment,..lol Firstly, sometimes the Online store isn't alway exact. Generally it may be 3 business days to get it, but sometimes you order it online and on the 2nd day get an email sent to you saying it will be longer. And so on til the time blows out. (Doesn't happen all the time, but I have heard and read it happening). Secondly, sometimes Apple online store has stock for themselves, and not for the channel. (This is where my clouded judgment comes in). You can get things faster sometimes from the online store then you can from the channel. Fair? Well, I won't get started on that. I work with and know a fair few of the resellers, and I feel for them. Apple can deliver stock to themselves before they will to their dealers. (iPad2 launch for example. Applestore(s) had lots of stock, resellers,..lucky if they got a handful). I could rabbit on for ages about this, but, well, I said I wouldn't,..lol Of course, there can be other delays that happen as well. Sometimes parts can become scarce or a little hiccup happens. So there are plenty of reasons. And sometimes when they order it, they are told it will be x amount of days, then something happens to their order and the delivery date changes for no apparent reason. (So when they look at the online trace of it, they tell you one date, then look back at 2 weeks and find it's moved again.) Sometime you need a crystal ball to figure it all out! lol. I go back to my early comment...I feel for the resellers. My perspective might be a bit tainted, as I've worked for a couple of resellers and seen how it works and seeing as I'm not employed by Apple then I can comment a bit more I guess without worry about consequences. Sure, I suppose I could get flamed for it,...lol. :o) This is stil one of the reasons I do what I can to always push getting things from the resellers. If we don't look after them, they will close up. And then the only option would be the Applestore. At least the resellers will offer a package deal (Where they can of course as margins are s low). You won't get a discount from the online store (or the Apple store). Sorry if I took it offtrack a little, but was trying to give you some ideas with what the delay may be and some extra info around the edges. I've always thought it a little bit of a conflict of interest where the distributor sells in direct competition to their own channel. But I won't get started on that,. (Besides,..how do you argue that point,..lol). I'll now go hide in the corner until I'm sure it's safe to come out again :o)) Hope something in there helps. I'm sure if you ask them they hopefully can explain it a bit more as to why the delay as well. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mac training pricing
On 17/09/2011, at 8:22 AM, Ray Forma wrote: From some advertising I received yesterday Operating Systems Training TNG0010 Windows 7 Made Easy with Dan Gookin 4.5 hrs $39 TNG0011 Basic Training for Mac OSX Snow Leopard 1 hr 42 min $29 The Windows training is $8.66 per hour, while the Mac training is $17.60 per hour. Any ideas why the Mac training is over twice as much per hour? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 I could be wrong, but my guess would be 'economies of scale'. There are probably a lot of Windows trainers, but not many Mac trainers. So the Mac trainers are in more of a demand (getting offered more work) so less time to spread themselves around. Therefore they can charge more for their time. Possibly also less people sign up for the Mac training in comparison to the Windows training so their costs get divided by less, ie they know they probably will fill the Windows training (say 50 people) but the Mac training they might only get 20 people. Therefore the cost per person is higher. That would be my thinking on it. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mac training pricing
My flippant answer It takes 4.5 hours to learn the basics in the windows environment. It takes precisely 1 hour 42 minutes to get to the same level of competence in the mac environment. Saves you $10. Go out have a cup of coffee with the difference plus the time saved. Regards, Eugene -- next part -- On 17/09/2011, at 10:15 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 17/09/2011, at 8:22 AM, Ray Forma wrote: From some advertising I received yesterday Operating Systems Training TNG0010 Windows 7 Made Easy with Dan Gookin 4.5 hrs $39 TNG0011 Basic Training for Mac OSX Snow Leopard 1 hr 42 min $29 The Windows training is $8.66 per hour, while the Mac training is $17.60 per hour. Any ideas why the Mac training is over twice as much per hour? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 I could be wrong, but my guess would be 'economies of scale'. There are probably a lot of Windows trainers, but not many Mac trainers. So the Mac trainers are in more of a demand (getting offered more work) so less time to spread themselves around. Therefore they can charge more for their time. Possibly also less people sign up for the Mac training in comparison to the Windows training so their costs get divided by less, ie they know they probably will fill the Windows training (say 50 people) but the Mac training they might only get 20 people. Therefore the cost per person is higher. That would be my thinking on it. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mac training pricing
Hi Ray, The RRP of the Windows 7 training is actually $95 which works out to ~$21 hr, it's just been discounted - however, it doesn't make sense to compare on an hourly rate for a product that is a DVD or a book. If it was someone providing training, it might be an economy of scale where there are more people attending a training session therefore you can charge less, but I have generally seen training hourly rates around the same. Market forces determine everything! Of course if you buy your Mac at a store, several offer free training for 12 months. Cheers, Stuart On 17/09/11 8:22 AM, Ray Forma r...@smartchat.net.au wrote: From some advertising I received yesterday Operating Systems Training TNG0010 Windows 7 Made Easy with Dan Gookin 4.5 hrs $39 TNG0011 Basic Training for Mac OSX Snow Leopard 1 hr 42 min $29 The Windows training is $8.66 per hour, while the Mac training is $17.60 per hour. Any ideas why the Mac training is over twice as much per hour? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: long wait on Macbook Air order
Hi Rod, CTO's are built in Singapore, even if you order from the Apple Store. Usually it would take 5-10 days. The Apple store always says 3 days but it doesn't always deliver in 3 days. Generally a longer delay means shortage of a particular part. Cheers, Stuart On 17/09/11 7:55 AM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi WAMUGers I finally bit the bullet and ordered a built to order MacBook Air 2 or 3 weeks ago (through my usual education reseller). I expected a 2 or 3 week wait at worst. I have just been told maybe end of this month - that will be a 4 or 5 week wait! The australian apple online store indicates 3 business days for the exact same order. Strange? Any ideas please? cheers Blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.me.com/blitto I haven't lost my mind.. ...it's backed up on disk somewhere! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: long wait on Macbook Air order
you never get it in 3 days, 3 days means after payment received the goods are leaving apple within 3 business days + courier time = approx 8 days from payment to receiving according to my calendar (in march 2011) i received to macbook pro 6 days after payment James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 17/09/2011, at 11:26 AM, Stuart Evans wrote: Hi Rod, CTO's are built in Singapore, even if you order from the Apple Store. Usually it would take 5-10 days. The Apple store always says 3 days but it doesn't always deliver in 3 days. Generally a longer delay means shortage of a particular part. Cheers, Stuart On 17/09/11 7:55 AM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi WAMUGers I finally bit the bullet and ordered a built to order MacBook Air 2 or 3 weeks ago (through my usual education reseller). I expected a 2 or 3 week wait at worst. I have just been told maybe end of this month - that will be a 4 or 5 week wait! The australian apple online store indicates 3 business days for the exact same order. Strange? Any ideas please? cheers Blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.me.com/blitto I haven't lost my mind.. ...it's backed up on disk somewhere! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Airport Express, Bridge Mode, Closing the Network Causes A Problem.
Hi Stephen, Why are you hiding your Wireless Network? You have it locked down with WPA2 encryption. Hiding your wireless SSID is actually less secure than broadcasting it. The idea behind disabling SSID is to make your wireless router “invisible” to hackers and other malicious users. Unfortunately, merely disabling SSID is not effective as a security measure, and any active wi-fi router can be revealed quite easily. Free tools like Netstumbler www.netstumbler.com will display all active Wi-fi routers, regardless of whether their SSID is hidden. Worse, disabling SSID can actually degrade network performance. The “hide SSID” myth was actually been debunked for years. No less than Robert Moskowitz, senior technical director at ICSA Labs warned against it as far back as Dec 2003, in a paper titled “Debunking the Myth of SSID Hiding” “Efforts to hide the SSID are at best half-measures which lead to a false sense of security and to a degradation of wireless network performance.” When you hide your SSID, your computer has no idea whether or not your wireless router is around, and therefore it has to continuously look for it, even when it is not in range. This means that when you hide your SSID at home and take your laptop out to McDonalds, your laptop is actually telling everyone at McDonalds what your SSID is at home. That, and every other hidden SSID you have registered in your computer. This completely defeats the purpose of hiding your SSID in the first place. The right way to configure your wireless router is actually to not hide the SSID, with your network encrypted with WPA2 and a strong password. You will get other benefits as well like a more robust network connection that will drop out less often, easy configuration on your computers and most important of all, nearly unbreakable security. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 17/09/2011, at 9:59 AM, Stephen Wonfor wrote: Ronni Works fine when visible. Invisible is another tale. I'll try alternate channels next week... Stephen -- You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. - John von Neumann On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Stephen, Just quickly as I'm heading out for the day, two suggestions. Is the Network Hidden? If so try with with Network 'Visible'. Or try changing the Channel. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 17/09/2011, at 5:48 AM, Stephen Wonfor wonf...@wonfuji.com wrote: Hello I am setting up an Airport Express to act as a bridgemode repeater for a wired network (SonicWall Router etc). The Express is 7.5.2 and works fine with WPA2Personal security. My SnowLeopard laptop happily stores the network creds and reconnects without issue. When I close the network I am no longer able to connect to it - connection timeout. The network name has been pasted (from the Airport Utility setup) into a TextEdit document, password also; so I am pretty sure I am getting it correct. So I can simply copy paste when connecting to the closed network. Seems odd, Any thoughts? Stephen --- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. --- John Kenneth Galbraith -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
