Thanks to those who offered some suggestions. I still have a couple of things to try but I currently have a good connection, I had read somewhere that the best performance is achieved by connecting the router to the primary / first, phone socket in the house, so I moved the router to this socket and bingo!
That said, the router was on the floor above the mac, now it's on the same floor and a little closer, so having changed two things I can not (Yet.) be certain if it's the phone socket change or the proximity of the router that is making the difference, but I will investigate further. Ultimately I could do with the router being back upstairs, so perhaps I will look for a more up to date Netgear router with a stronger signal? Anyway, thanks again. Steve. ------ Forwarded Message From: Steve Davies <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:14:23 +0000 To: Sussex MUG <[email protected]> Conversation: Internet connection irritation Subject: Internet connection irritation Hi, My wireless connection to my Mac is becoming flakey I have had the same router for a couple of years and the current Mac for four months, and while I have had the occasional slow / poor connection issue, it has been getting worse recently and had now reached the point where more often than not I can log on to Google but as soon as I try to open a search page it just sits there until I get the "You are not connected to the internet" I go through network diagnostics, enter the wireless network I wish to join and then get a, Network requires you to enter security password. On entering my password, SOMETIMES it re-connects, sometimes it tells me I have to switch of the router and restart, sometimes it tells me my network settings have changed, and when I accept it re-connects. This sort of thing is happening almost continuously but with some periods of normal connectivity. Any ideas? Netgear DG834G v3 Firmware v4.01.28 Network type PPPoAWPA-PSK Imac Hardware Overview: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac8,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 6 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
