Hi Martin... A couple of our lecturers and staff in Humanities also have extreme spec ibooks and powerbooks and I do not think they have had that much grief lately... While they are not the absolute latest spec macs, I am sure we can give you a hand anytime you need. Just give us a bell.
Glen Craig Specialised ICT Support Officer Humanities IT Services, Curtin University On 17/11/05 5:06 PM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- 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> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
