Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread Jared Earle
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: Thanks for the tips. I may resort to just running an Ethernet cable across the room, I recently drilled through the ceiling to get ethernet to my Mac Mini (and AppleTV, PS3, etc) and the difference in speed, even over my rural

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread steve
on 2012-04-16 8:32 Lawrence Sica wrote On Apr 16, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Jared Earlejea...@gmail.com wrote: I recently drilled through the ceiling to get ethernet to my Mac Mini (and AppleTV, PS3, etc) and the difference in speed, even over my rural 3.5Mbps internet, was remarkable. If you use

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread Nathan Sims
On Apr 16, 2012, at 8:47 AM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: there are around ten other wifi signals nearby, some of which are strong As an aside, I live in an apartment and there are on average 23 wifi signals present, with 14 of them above 50% in strength (as seen with iStumbler). Frankly,

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread LuKreme
Nathan Sims squawked out on Monday 16-Apr-2012@10:40:17 Am I being a bit paranoid about this…? A bit. How many wifi signals are too much? They don't add up. In fact, for the most part they cancel out which is why you want channels no one else is using. (If magnetic fields were additive, a

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread Nathan Sims
On Apr 16, 2012, at 12:32 PM, LuKreme wrote: Nathan Sims squawked out on Monday 16-Apr-2012@10:40:17 Am I being a bit paranoid about this…? A bit. How many wifi signals are too much? They don't add up. In fact, for the most part they cancel out which is why you want channels no one

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread Arno Hautala
On 2012-04-16, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: (If magnetic fields were additive, a office building full of computers would kill people in seconds). How exactly would that happen? MRIs, for example, aren't known for killing people. -- arno s hautala/-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread objectwerks inc
On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:47 AM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: i get excellent results streaming from older MBP --ethernet-- Time Capsule (older N version) --wifi-- 1/4 bronze plate, drywall, insulation, stucco, air, asphalt shingles, insulation, drywall, air -- AppleTV2; the wifi distance is

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-16 Thread Macs R We
On Apr 16, 2012, at 2:26 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: My Mac Pro is not in a location I can easily run ethernet to. It is not my house so I don't want to do any construction work :0 to run a cable. So I connect via our Airport Extreme on the N 5ghz band. Our media center Mac Mini runs on

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-14 Thread Andy Lee
On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:47 AM, John Stalberg wrote: Did this occur after an OS X update? Hard to say. I immediately updated to 10.7.3 when I brought the iMac home, so I don't have previous data to compare to. I've seen claims that after this update, Macs would intermittently drop WiFi

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-14 Thread Andy Lee
. Googling iMac WiFi turns up a lot of similar complaints, some blaming hardware (bad antennas) and some blaming software (in particular, the 10.7.3 update). Some people have said the problem is triggered by waking from sleep. I've tried various suggested solutions and none of them work

Re: iMac WiFi

2012-04-13 Thread Macs R We
the connection drops intermittently. Googling iMac WiFi turns up a lot of similar complaints, some blaming hardware (bad antennas) and some blaming software (in particular, the 10.7.3 update). Some people have said the problem is triggered by waking from sleep. I've tried various suggested