Apple TV preferred network

I have an ATV which was formerly connected wirelessly to a Netgear wireless router. I now have a Time Capsule which I would like the ATV to connect automatically to, rather than defaulting to the old wireless. I am able to connect to the TC network manually, but it defaults to the Netgear every time I switch it on. Is there a way of telling the ATV to forget the Netgear, or to change the preferred network?
Thanks.

You have two possibilities. You could disable the wifi on your DHCP server (your modem) and just have one wifi network, which would likely solve your problem anyway. Or you can keep two wifi networks if there is a reason. I have 5 wifi channels in use but all on the same network because the wifi base units are quite far apart and wouldn't cover my home with less and I also have quite a lot of traffic which I can spread between them.
This is "My tv set up"
Which ever way you set it up you must have the extreme set up in bridge mode, if it issues DHCP addresses it will make two devices doing so and everything will get confused, not on that but if the computer is on one network and the tv is on another they simply won't work.
One network doesn't mean only one wifi, one network means one device issuing the network addresses.

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Macbook Pro no longer auto-connects to preferred network

The title says it.
While my computer connects automatically to some (maybe all but one) of my preferred networks, it now does not connect, annoyingly, to the one I use the most often (let's call it NET).
I've triple checked that it's preferred and should connect automatically, and the computer remembers the password, so that if I manually select NET, it connects no problem. But:
a) It won't auto-connect to NET, and
b) If I turn my computer on, when it presents the list of networks to me, I have to wait for it to reload the list, cause if I click on NET originally, it doesn't connect, and I have to refresh the list and try again.
c) Figured that might mean that it's just taking longer to load the networks and is showing me a list before it's actually picked up on the networks, but waiting forever doesn't make it autoconnect; it just refreshes the list.
Any ideas? This is a huge pain.

No idea. You could try deleting the file
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
... and restart your Mac.
To find that file quickly, select the above path (triple-click the line), control-click to bring up the contextual menu, and select Services > Reveal. Drag that file to the Desktop, or directly to the Trash.
This will completely erase your AirPort network preferences, requiring that you select your Wi-Fi network and authenticate again.
What OS X version are you using, and are you using an Apple AirPort Base Station, or a third party product?

OS 10.8.5 Wi-Fi doesn't find "Preferred Network"

We installed a new modem provided by Comcast that has built in wireless. After naming and establishing the password for the network, I successfully connected via my MacBook Pro, which detected it. Once connected I accessed the "Advanced Settings" screen in the Network control panel.
Under the first "Wi-Fi" tab I dragged the new network to the top of the list of "Preferred Networks." I also confirmed that the "Remember networks this computer has joined" check-box was selected.
Yet each time the computer wakes from sleep or is restarted the Wi-Fi utility scans for networks and doesn't connect to any. When I click on the control bar icon for Wi-Fi the network appears -- usually at the bottom of the list -- and when I click on it the computer connects immediately.
Obviously this defeats the point of remembering preferred networks and is a nagging time-suck at the start of each work session. Has anyone else experienced this problem and discovered a solution?
Thanks!!
Joseph
Washington, DC

Hello Joseph_DC
If you are having issues with it not connecting after waking from sleep, the check out the article below to troubleshoot the issue further. Check in the section Symptom: The network connection drops unexpectedly and there will be a solution just for that issue and will continue with going into Keychain Access the
iPhone: Troubleshooting No Service
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4429
Regards,
-Norm G.

Hi, how do i stop my macbook pro not to automatically connect to a wifi connection that is not my preferred network? i want to automatically connect my macbook to my preferred network everytime i turn on my laptop. thank you.

hi, how do i stop my macbook pro not to automatically connect to a wifi connection that is not my preferred network? i want to automatically connect my macbook to my preferred network everytime i turn on my laptop. thank you.

System Preferences > Network > WiFi
To give a network the highest priority, drag the name of the network to the top of the list. This is the network your computer will attempt to join first.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13797

None of your preferred networks are available

Hi,
I'm still having this problem. Whenever I turn my Leopard running iMac on, as soon as the Desktop loads a message pops up saying:
"None of your preferred networks are available"
The SSID name of my home WiFi network is visible in the list of available networks, but when I try to join it I get the message:
"Connecting to network"
and then
"Connection timeout"
This problem isn't exclusive to my Tiger upgraded to Leopard iMac. It's exactly the same on a brand new late 2007 MacBook with Leopard pre-installed!
WiFi used to work flawlessly with Tiger. But with Leopard it's very unreliable to the point of being unusable. When are Apple going to sort it out? Nothing has changed with my Netgear DG834PN Router. It's setup exactly the same way it was with Tiger.
Any help would be appreciated.

Reuben,
You're not alone. I have the same problem, and literally tons of other people do too. After running my search on apple discussions for "preferred networks" (my results url is: http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?forumID=599&threadID=&q=preferrednetworkproblem&objID=c235&dateRange=all&userID=&numResults=30&rankBy=10001 ) and finding 236 responses, it seems patently clear that the problem is a bug in Leopard.
I filed a bug report at bugreport.apple.com, and was given the "Problem ID" of: 5692458. My description, following Apple's requested protocol, may be found at https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/27/wo/ZC6cutwkbBEtt3 M1MEp67M/7.21
and other posters have recommended that as many others as possible do the same.

After security update no automated connection to preferred networks anymore

After installing the new security update 10.5.8 from today, my MacBook Pro does not automatically connect to my preferred networks (airport) anymore. They still exist and are running. So when manually connecting (typing in the network SSID and password) it works.
Can anybody help to either:
# help fix the bug in this security update or
# explain how to uninstall a security update.
Thanks a lot,
Chris

Hi Chris,
you might find a cure here :
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8120804#8120804
it worked for me ( I already had this with 10.4 and recently with 10.5 too).
Both time the cure was to trash the pref.plist as pointed in the above link
regards

Leopard airport issues - Preferred Networks

I am having an Airport / Preferred Networks issue with new Macbook (Dec 07) currently running 10.5.1.
I have a Netgear wireless router that uses WPA for my local network. It has worked fine for around 8 months with Powerbooks & ibooks running Tiger, various PC's and an iphone.
My macbook however will not remember the preferred networks I set up. Everytime I wake it from sleep it says 'none of your preferred networks are available' and then asks if I want to join my local network. The password is remembered correctly and it attempts to join. Roughly 70% of the time it will then give a Connection Timeout error two or three times before connecting.
I have tried the following:
-Deleting the network location in System preferences.
-Deleted Airport Keychain entries and restarted laptop.
-Reset network location using System preferences, restarting laptop again.
-Created a new user account and still found the same issue.
Does anyone have any other suggestions or is it a matter of waiting for 10.5.2?
Thanks, Graham

The issues appear to be due to improper settings of routers and/or networking issues, which appear to be more prevalent on third party routers though can also affect Apple routers if their firmware isn't up to date. It is not an operating system specific issue, even though it can often appear to show up when upgrading. The reason for this is numerous routers haven't followed specs that are industry wide.
I suggest looking over these tips*:
http://www.macmaps.com/WIFI1048.html
As well as making sure when you upgrade to follow these tips:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
to avoid the most frequently encountered problems.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation
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Deleted preferred networks reappear

Upon installing Mavericks, and turning on iCloud keychain, I noticed that all wifi networks I had ever connected to appeared in the preferred network list on my Macbook.
There were quite a few I naturally wanted to delete, so I removed them. Also my devices were trying to connect to networks I thought I had removed.
It didn't take me long to notice that my Macbook was trying to connect to some of these old networks again, and upon looking at the list - all deleted entries had reappeared.
Another symptom seems to be that if I tell my iPhone not to auto-connect to a public hotspot (BT WIFI for example), if my Mac ever comes near that hotspot it auto connects - as will my iPhone subsequently.
I have tried editing the com.apple.airport.preferences.plist file manually, deleting the Mac's WiFi service and recreating, and resetting network settings on all my Apple devices.
I have even looked at the Keychain app on my Mac, but it doesn't seem to be storing my wireless networks from what I can see.
From my Google-ing, it doesn't sound like anyone else is having this issue..
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Back up all data. Open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the Keychain box. You'll be prompted to delete the local iCloud keychain. Confirm. Also disable it on the other devices. Delete the unwanted preferred networks from all devices. Then follow one of the procedures described in this support article to set up iCloud Keychain.

Location-specific preferred networks lists

I would like to have a different list of preferred networks, depending on my location. I think it worked this way in 10.6.
Now, in 10.8, the networks I've listed in Location A still show up in the list for Location B.
Do I need to reset something, or is this how it works now?
Thanks.

In all honesty Apple messed up on iCloud from the very start and now can't fix it.
There might be a setting but if iCloud is like everything else Apple has done they don't give the User many setting options. Apple's way or no way.
I personally don't use it as I found it severly lacking in function. You have just pointed out another.
TechAddict wrote:
All devices are synced and using iCloud Keychain. I think that's where the networks have copied across from because when I go to remove them it says they will be deleted from the keychain for all devices. The MBP is listing every network now that my mobile devices have ever connected too. 95% of those are in different countries so it's not an 'in the area of' issue.
Going to have a rummage to see if there are any iCloud Keychain settings anywhere. You'd think theere would be an option that shows the networks that THIS computer has connected to (as the settings screen actually states) and an option to show (or copy across) all the networks that EVERY device you own have ever connected to. They are disticntly different. My MBP have NEVER connected to most of them.

MacBook won't stay connected to preferred network after sleep

Anytime our MacBooks (good ole white) go to sleep, they wake up and need to be connected to the preferred network again. I attempt to only connect with Preferred Networks, but that does not resolve the issue. I only want it to see the preferred networks and it continues to sit around while I tell it where to link.
Any ideas? I have a netgear router and 2 Macbooks that are having the issue. I just upgraded to Mountain Lion and continue to experience the same problem... lovely grayed out signal and a prompt to connect to some network.
Thank you for any help you can offer.

Hi wellandpondsteve,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
Cheers,
- Judy

Sick to Death of "None of your preferred networks are available."

I have a MacBook Air and an AirPort Extreme base station which is roughly four feet away. Why is it that I am constantly being disconnected from my wireless network and seeing garbage like "None of your preferred networks are available." (when my wireless network is listed RIGHT THERE IN THE DIALOG BOX) and "connection timeout" after only 3 seconds when trying to reconnect?
I have tried all sorts of things: Deleting items from the keychain and recreating them; changing the channel number of my wireless network; adding SystemUIServer and Apple80211Agent to my keychain items for the network; you name it, I've tried it. And STILL my notebook with Leopard 10.5.2 can't stay connected to the network, and has a devil of a time getting reconnected. None of my other wireless devices (Xbox 360, Roku SoundBridge Radio, iPhone) has difficulty connecting or staying connected, so the fault obvious lies with Leopard.
Apple: *WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THIS?* I know that many, many others have run into this before, so it's not just me.

REALLY!
Yes, I've read all about the workarounds and fixes, none of which work to any great degree, and ALL of which should be UNNECESSARY.
Here's the thing:
*The main advertising thrust of Apple is that their stuff simply WORKS.*
The whole point of wireless access is to be able to connect anywhere it is available! If I can't take my laptop to Starbucks, then to Borders, then home, then to work and have it connect seamlessly (like it has, perfectly until now) then what is the point?
Especially since the MacBook Air HAS NO ETHERNET! This situation renders the MacBook Air utterly USELESS in about half the places one would try to use it.
Apple - SURELY this is not what you had in mind.
COME ON!
You are better than this!
JG

Stuck on " None of your preferred networks are available"

Good afternoon everyone,
When I turn on my MacBook Pro computer (both regularly and in safe mode) searches for the Wifi and then the screen, "None of your preferred networks are available" comes-up and gets stuck. I am unable to use my track pad to get out of it, the esc key does not work, nor the control/command Q...
Any advice would be appreciated. I have an appointment for the "Genius bar" in a couple days, but if I am able to figure this out earlier, it would, of course be better.
All the best,
Dave

Hi dchiesa,
If your MacBook Pro is freezing or becoming unresponsive during startup, even when Safe Booting, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
OS X: When your computer spontaneously restarts or displays "Your computer restarted because of a problem."
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT200553
Regards,
- Brenden

None of your preferred networks available

We have two MBP that were upgraded to Lion and worked well with our previous router. Since changing over to the Time Capsule both MBPs get the "none of your preferred networks are available" popup when waking from sleep mode. After searching for an answer I cannot find a good explanaton. Not sure if this is just a problem with the router change or Lion since people have posted having the problem with using the same router they had before upgrading to Lion. Any help would be appreciated.

I just got off the phone with Apple support and the fix he walked me thru has worked.
Go to Airport Utility and click on manual setup at the bottom of the window. Go to wireless tab and select radio channel selection...change 5GHz to 161 and 2.4GHz to 9. Click update.
Open network preferences and click advanced. Highlight and delete all items that appear in preferred networks (use the minus button). Click ok (think apply comes up as well).
Spotlight search for "keychain". Click on "keychain access". Delete the instances of your network name by highlighting and using the delete key. Close and apply if asked.
Turn Airport off then back on. Click to join your network and enter password. Turn Airport off and back on (at this point it auto connected). Restart computer and make sure it auto connects. Put to sleep and wake back up to make sure it connects.
These steps worked for me...not sure if it was a time capsule specific issue, but figured these steps seemed pretty universal since I changed no time capsule setting.

"None of your preferred networks are available" But they are!

This is the one problem that most bugs me with my MBP, i was hoping that 10.5.2 would fix it, but it does not.
I use my MBP on two wireless networks. They are both airport expresses with different SSIDs.
The first (work) is one airport express and my MBP will connect to it when ever it is in range happily. The second (home) is an airport express with another airport express extending the first. The only one in range on my laptop is the extension. Every time I wake the laptop it will tell me that "None of your preferred networks are available" and show the name of my network in the list - it has the password stored and has been told to remember the network... and yet it still refuses to connect.
Clicking the network shows that it knows the password as it displays it. I have rest both airport expresses and made the network from scratch, I have also deleted all references to the network in keychain and airport preferences, and yet it still does it.
There are a couple of other threads on this topic, but none of them have been resolved (That i have found) and they seem to have a slightly different problem to me, so I have posted my own question.
Does anyone know what is wrong?
Thanks.

I don't have the answer, I have the problem...
I'm also in one of the other threads about 10.5.2 messing up connection to my Apple Airport Extreme (melted marshmallow), but I also have the "None of your preferred networks are available" problem.
My network configuration looks like this: http://tijil.org/LAN_06.jpg
I have: Hard reset Airport, re-loaded firmware, re-done all settings, powered up and down numerous times, changed channels, etc. to no avail.
For me the Airport Base continues to work just fine with the other two computers connected to it wirelessly, but my 3 week old MacBook with 10.5.2 will no do so automatically, and once it does, even though the signal is strong and the S/N ratio is good, the connection is usually much slower than either of the other machines, has difficulty sustaining a large upload, and frequently drops out - for the MacBook only.
This did not happen with 10.5.0 or 10.5.1 and does not happen with the machines running 10.4.x.
The Airport Extreme Base is set to use 802.11b/g as one of the older machines can only handle 'b'...
I have MAC screening set up and also WAP. Network is NOT 'hidden.'
Airport Utility on the MacBook also has difficulty finding the base even when the MacBook is actually connected to it and using it to download mail. sigh
The problem is something that changed in 10.5.2.
Hope Apple gets this sorted soon!
Tom

"None of your preferred networks are available" but I can see them!

Occasionally when I start up my MacBook I get a window saying "None of your preferred networks are available," even though my network is listed among those located. If I try to connect via network preferences it tries, but then tells me the connection timed out. I am connecting via wifi. The only thing that works is to turn the router off and restart it. As soon as it has started up again and has a network connection, I can go to the AirPort icon and connect to the network.
I have tried re-entering the network password, restarting the computer, turning AirPort off and on, removing and changing firewalls, but nothing has helped.
Any ideas?

lucysnowe wrote:
"None of your preferred networks are available"
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
It might help to reset the connection settings on your Mac using these steps one at a time until the problem is resolved, recognizing that, depending on your problem, not all of these steps will make sense:
1) Use the AirPort menu bar item to turn AirPort off, then on again.
2) Try to select your Wi-Fi network from the AirPort menu.
3) In the Network panel of System Preferences delete the AirPort item from the left column, then add it back.
4) In the same panel as (3), define a new location and see if you can make that work.
5) In the same panel, select the AirPort connection item, click the "Advanced" button, select the "TCP/IP" tab, then click "Renew DHCP Lease".
6) In the folder /Library/Preferences ( not <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences), move the folder SystemConfiguration onto the Desktop, then restart your computer. See if you can now make your AirPort connection work.
These steps may not help, but they'll only take a couple of minutes to try. Before you try these, if you have any special network settings on your Mac for things like DSL credentials, note all your network settings, because the latter steps will destroy them. If you got all the way to the last step, if things don't work any worse than before, you can trash the saved SystemConfiguration folder.

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