Airport fails to reconnect

the wireless airport fails to reconnect after awaking
from sleep or rebooting..
i get the error message that says "this computer's
internet connection appears to be offline."
i have 10.4.6 and firmware update
Did you do a clean, from scratch install? Or did you use the Migration Assistant to transfe from another Mac?
I had the same bloody issues and after doing a from scratch install I got everything working flawlessly.
The Migration Assistant messed up my KeyChains and seemed to play havoc on my Airport password and various other things.
Someone mentioned, on another post they deleted their keyChains and recreated their passwords. Still a clean install, I think, is the best route.
Do yoiu have to log in again when the connection is lost? I don't it finds it right away and logs in on it's own.
My Airport does not broadcast the SSID and a password is required to access the network.
I hope I have helped you out ...
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Hi all, i gather from reading the forum pages that a number of users are having the same problem as me, so at the risk of gettin on a soap box....
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Power cycling the router. Read the router's user manual or contact their tech support for instructions.
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Click the Assist Me button
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Place a check mark next to "Remember networks this computer has joined." Click the OK button and lock the padlock. Restart your computer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1920 Mac OS: How to release and renew a DHCP lease
No internet connection (wireless)
Check to see if an extra entry is present in the DNS Tab for your wireless connection (System Preferences/Network/Airport/Advanced/DNS).
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Troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues in OS X Lion and Mac OS X v10.6
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Hello,
I have a problem with my brand-new Airport Extreme 802.11n Base-Station.
In my network there are 3 Windows-PC's with a wired connection, 1 MacBook Pro with 802.11n (also brand-new), 3 Windows-Laptops with 802.11g, an AppleTV with 802.11n (again, brand-new) and last but not least my iPhone 3G.
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Thanks for your help in advance...
Jochen

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And they are absolutely right in saying its my device that acts strange since the previous router (with integrated modem) didnt have this issue.
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Hi Linc,
I appreciate the discussion. Let me reply in-line
Linc Davis wrote:
I'm having a lot of trouble understanding your questions. Rather than trying to figure it out, let me tell you how it should work.
You have a DSL modem that is also a router. It gets an address for its WAN interface from your ISP's DHCP server, or it has a static address -- doesn't matter which.
My router has a static WAN IP address, which is in my ISP's subnet. The LAN is my own public subnet 209.128.72.208/28, and the router's LAN IP address is 209.128.72.209.
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