Ok all you guys with the new model PowerBooks (and perhaps recent iBooks as well):
Have any of you encountered any issues with the Airport connectivity of these machines - particularly when connecting using Enterprise WPA? Quite a few of the staff from one of our departments who have all switched over en-masse to Macs have just bought new PowerBooks and are having some major connectivity issues with the 802.11g signal fluctuating wildly and dropping out while their old Windows and Linux laptops sit there unaffected. Their tech staff tell me they also had a student with a new iBook which displayed the same problem. Older iBooks and an 18 month old 12" Powerbook also seem to be unaffected and work fine in the same locations. Could there be a new 802.11g chipset in the new Macs that may be causing issues? As you can imagine, some of the staff having just switched are muttering a bit and wondering if they've done the right thing. We're using Enterprise WPA. I've tried my older model 15" powerBook up there and it worked fine, but their Powerbooks were also behaving at that time. They're going to call me when they next encounter the problem so I can see if my older Powerbook is also affected. They've run all the latest system updates for 10.4.3. I've asked them to try turning on "Interference Robustness" and turn off Bluetooth. I haven't noticed anything on Macintouch et al. -Mart ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Hill, Digital Media Specialist Information Management Services, Curtin University of Technology mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://is.curtin.edu.au/ims.cfm Mb: 0401-103-194 wk: (08)9266-3101
