Bad wifi card macbook?

I use a late 2008 MacBook. My wireless internet connection seems to time out and slow dramatically from time to time. If I turn the airport off and then back on, it seems to get it going again. I use ATT U-verse and our connection is typically extremely fast but lately the speed has been intermittent and won't load webpages. However, when I connect my computer directly to the router via ethernet cable, the speed is constant and the problem goes away. Is this a sign of a bad wifi card?

Not necessarily...if the card failed, you'd most likely not be able to use it at all. Which protocol are you using to connect? It may be useful to delete the current network 'location' and recreate to see if that helps.

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Hi all,
Oddball question: I have a Lenovo t410i that is completely dead. About two years ago, I dropped a bit of water on the keyboard, and something got fried so that the keys wouldn't type correctly anymore. When I went to replace the keyboard, I accidentally ripped one of the cables from the Intel Wifi Card (model 622anhmw). When this happened, the laptop would not power on. After two years, I am finally sitting down to try and fix this, but before I go buy a new wifi card (the cable was ripped out with the solder connection), I wanted to ask if anyone out there knew whether simply replacing the wifi card will actually solve the problem.
Seems like it's a pretty strange thing for the laptop to route all power through this tiny card, but I've seen stranger things.
Thanks!

My WAG is a blown fuse (if there are any in that laptop) or something else that got yanked on and shorted when the cable was ripped out.
You'll need one of the members, mods, or gurus her on the forums with repair experience to offer advice. Sorry, it's above my pay grade.
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Where is the WiFi card in a 2010 MacBook Pro 15' I5

So today i had turned on my 2010 MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel i5 15', to notice that the wifi bars are no longer there. I suspect there being an issue with the wifi card, but with this unit, i'm confused as to where it is. I have looked around on the internet and google images and some are in different place than others. I also heard from somewhere else online that it is a built in wifi card, if so where is that located? By the heat sink or is it the antenna looking cables? I'm desperate to get this thing fully functional as for i need it for school and work in the morning and my only source of internet is via wifi.

Well this unit was once water damaged and with significant time and dedication i brought this unit from the dead to life. So maybe this is one of the minor things that has finally given out, the water damage was a few months ago and it was working fine along that entire time, but tonight maybe it has given. Do you by chance know what the visible card is that is next to the heat sink but is not covered by it?

Is it possible to use Intel PROset Wireless/WiFi card on MacBook late 2007 in replacement of Airport?

Will Intel PROset/Wireless WiFi card work on MacBook Late-2007? I don't have an Airport card with me as this MacBook was only given to me from a friend. Also will Mac OS X 10.6 install even though the WiFi card and Bluetooth card is not in the MacBook?
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I would seriously doubt that you will be able to use this card as a replacement for the AirPort Extreme card in your MacBook.
A better option would be to use a wireless USB Wi-Fi adapter instead. You can find these at a number of vendors on the Internet. One would be Other World Computing (OWC).
As far as installing OS X 10.6, you should be able to install it from the OS X installation disk regardless if the AirPort card is missing.

Can I use a usb wifi card on my MacBook Pro?

I'm having trouble connecting to my old router (d-link di-714p+). The matter has been discussed here in other threads and it seems that no one can connect a MBP to this old router.
I don't want to buy a new router, yet, and running a long cable throughout the house is sturting to bother me.
I also have a dwl-g122 wifi usb dongle and I thought this might be an solution: I'll stick the dongle into my MBP and have wifi...
BUT: Does anyone know if connecting 2 wifi cards to a mac can damage it in anyway? Can I temporary disable the AP card ? How?

If you have a driver for the USB stick then yes it will work, however do a search in the forums for the USB stick you have and you will see that some people have had problems.
It won't physically hurt your Mac to have two wireless adapters, though for simplicity sake you may want to remove Airport from the list of possible network connections in
System Preferences > Network > Configurations
iFelix

Compatible WIFI card for Thinkpad a21m, wifi orinoco silver no longer working

Thank you for having this forum available.
My husband passed down his Thinkpad A21M Type 2628-GTU to our son. The wifi card that was with it is a Lucent Technologies Orinoco Silver 11mbit/s t/n 03549501 p/n012938/c. When powered up last night, the ethernet was fully functional, but the wireless card didn't connect to the net. My husband assumed the Lucent card was bad. Is there something compatible I may buy to replace it? Do you have a suggestion on what he might have missed in trying to get it to work at home?
He has used this laptop all over the country including at home before, so I would imagine he knows what he is doing. But, we do have a new service provider since the company upgraded his computer system.
Thank you so much!

Welcome to the forum!
Honestly, it's time to upgrade to a newer card anyway, at least b/g. Any PCMCIA wireless card will work with your A21m, it all depends on your router, and your personal preferences.
Hope this helps.
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I need to get a new wifi card for my mac air. do i have to buy this from a apple store? i live fare away from an apple store.

I spilled some red wine on my keyboard and i cannot connect to the internet any more. it says on the internet icon: Wi-fi: no harware installes. so i guess i need to get a new wifi card for my mac air. do i have to buy this from a apple store? i live fare away from an apple store. Also, I do have a macbook with software system:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549). can I take out the wifi card from that mack and use that one for my mac air?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Consider yourself lucky that your MacBook is still working. Now, turn it off. Wine may have damaged other parts of your computer.
Then, take the MacBook to an Apple Store or reseller. It will be a very expensive repair, as it's not covered by warranty and the logic board has to be replaced. In some cases, it may be better to get a new MacBook.
If you can't take it to an Apple Store, contact with Apple > http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57

My Wifi Card???

Hello
I have a Macbook Pro and my sister have a macbook...We both work at the same .
Her Macbook can catch wifi signals from across the street but my Macbook Pro cant. Is it my wifi card or what...Will apple install a new on for me because I have apple care. Also other PC can catch the same signals as well. Is there configurations I can do on my Macbook Pro so it will catch more signals....Please Help.
Thanks You

I also have both a MacBook and a MacBook pro at work, same issue.
In my opinion, this is Apple's problem, not a consumer problem.
Failure to design a product that works sufficiently isn't our fault, therefore we should not be forced to buy extra equipment to compensate for the poor design of a "superior" product...they should have taken this into consideration when deciding to use a metallic shell.

How do I see the model and manufacturer of my wifi card?

how do I see the model and manufacturer of my wifi card?
MacBook Pro 13-2011

Shootist007 wrote:
That is not correct. Apple really doesn't build any parts. They are all made by some other manufacturer and then installed in Mac computers as Add-on cards or soldered onto the motherboard, Apple Speak Logic board, before it is installed in the computer.
As to the WiFi card Broadcom makes most of the chips and they are then soldered onto a Duaghter card that is then inserted in a socket. The socket for the WiFi card is near the back of the system just behind the Superdrive. That is on the standard MBP. On the Retina models I'm not sure where it is placed.
Strebsjig wrote:
As far as I know, Apple only uses their own AirPort 'cards' (they aren't really cards anymore, but integrated chips). So the manufacturer is Apple, and the model is just AirPort.
Technically, you are correct. The original manufacturer is Broadcom, but all the WiFi chips Apple is using are rebranded as Apple, Inc. AirPort Extreme.

Can you upgrade the wifi card and if you can how much will it cost

hi i just got a macbook not the pro its the white one and i find it has a hard time grabbing my wifi and i know its the wifi card because i have 2 iphones and ipod touch and 2 laptops not including my macbook and all of them have no trouble holding the wifi connection so if anyone can help me out i just want to know can i upgrade the wifi card and if i can how much will it cost
ps i cant do any of take it apart my self and install it i just wan to know how much it will cost going through apple
thanks

Why do people think they are postiing in a notebook forum when if you look around, this is clearly something else.
If you really want a new Mac you have to buy one. That is part of the fun of owning laptops, they are not upgradeable.

Manually changing a wifi card's listed locale

I bought my MacBook Pro in the U.S. a couple of years ago, but I now live in China and am visiting friends in Australia. I'm unable to get onto my friend's wifi network, which is set to channel 13, because my wifi card says that it can't/won't support that channel. For various reasons, it's not possible to set the router in question to a different channel. Is there a way to change my card's locale manually? I've attempted to change it by switching regions to reflect where I am and then restarting the computer, but that has had no effect. Thoughts? I'm not terribly happy with Apple at the moment, as this seems like a pretty fundamental thing, and this is at least the second time it's come up and prevented me from getting online.
Here's the information in my system profile regarding the card:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x 14E4, 0x93)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.198.4.20)
Locale: FCC
Country Code: X0
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36... (it goes on listing various channels up to 165, but I'm not sure that's relevant and don't really want to type them all out).
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Anyone?

TX2500 (and other TX's??) with BROADCOM 4321 WiFi cards, Win7

Maybe I'm the only one here with this problem, although given HP's history, I doubt that very much. So I have a TX2510z, and even though I customized the heck out of this thing, for some silly reason, I didn't buy the Intel WiFi card. (My Bad, never again!!). I have had almost continual problems with the WiFi connecting to Enterprise class wireless access points. (Such as Cisco, Sonicwall, and a couple others.) I've NEVER had a problem with residential class AP's (Linksys blue boxes, D-Link, Belkin, Etc.) I've replaced the WiFI card like three times now (thank Greyskull I DID buy the extended warranty and ADR package!!!!) I spent more hours talking to a "Service Case Manager" than I did to my wife for a while there. I finally had had enough, and in a fit of loathing, upgraded to Win 7 (enterprise 64), hoping that a more advanced OS would have better drivers. It kinda did, for a while. Almost all features of the WiFi card were working until yesterday. All of a sudden I lost all of my associations, and had to re-connect to them with the wizard. Oddly, one of the Ciscos I had been using, I couldnt add manually now. I had to use the wizard. WHen I came home to my Belkin, which had been flawless to this point wasn't even visible to the TX now. ALL of my other devices were interacting with the Belkin appropriately. I even attempted to manually add with a fixed IP addy, but it was like it wasn't there. It was exactly how the TX had been acting under Vista. Randomly ignoring AP's. I was about an inch from throwing the whole thing out into the snow. I happened to find a link which appears to have solved my problems (at least for now). :::
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=uk&prodTypeId=32...
And here is the forum thread I found it in. :::
Microsoft Support Forum
As I said, so far its working. I will find out how it manages the Ciscos tomorrow at work. If anyone has been having the WiFi issue with their TX series and Broadcom WiFi, please post something so I at least know I'm not alone/ crazy. I hope this post can help if you are haveing these issues.

I'd say go with Middleton BIOS either way (SATA II). In which case, get a newfangled 802.11ac card while you're at it.

Ralink RT3290 802.11bgn Wifi Card - Possible Issues [SOLVED]

Dear Lucky owners of such a card, At least from my experience I realized it is not that bad card, even if most probably many production pieces were faulty or not working properly, and many issues can be resolved. Let me list in order of time the issues I faced and solved about this wifi card: 0) First issue is not about RT3290 card itself but it is related to 802.11w encryption compatibility in between Windows8 and Cisco not allowing 802.11n speed rates so failing to G speeds only. - SOLUTIONS: a. As first test I would recommend trying another router from different brand to see if connecting at 802.11n speed rates b. If you prove point a issue, then try to fix the issue based on following post (in which you can see the reply from myself Emanuele on the 29th of Nov 2014): https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/113836/windows-8-clients-cant-associate-cisco-unified-wireless 1) Signal strenght issue: original wifi card RT3290 installed on my HP laptop was having really bad antenna, with signal fluctuating and sometimes bad even really close to any Router I tried. - SOLUTION: Replace the RT3290 card even with same new card. (In my case as laptop was under warranty, I proved the issue via screenshots and they replaced with new card solving my signal strenght issue). 2) Original issue (1) was actually resolved after HP replaced the wifi card with same model, but with the latest driver installed 5.0.45 seems like wifi rates change too frequently based on high sensitivity of the driver itself, so that suggested me issue was still there, so making me re-testing anything from scratch. - SOLUTION: Install 5.0.37 Driver - frequent rate changes issue (with driver 5.0.45) disappears and sensitivity of signal to rate changes seems to be a really good compromise to have good throughput. 3) To check out 2nd issue above I started again using a third party software inSSIDer free version to check signal while I was doing speedtest on web.
- RESOLUTION:
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Hye. After I read up your solutions, I am quite impressive and really want to try out those solutions. However, I am not very computer wise and I really appreciate if you make a video on solving this problem. Up to you if you want to upload it on the youtube (so that others with similar problem can view it and solve the problem too) or you want to direct email to me ( [email protected] ). I really hope you can help me because I am stuck with this problem since last year. Thank you!!!

Time Capsule wired to PC with no wifi card.

So I'm a little confuzzled here, hopefully somebody can help me out.
I have a router in the basement that all of my devices (MacBook, iMac, etc.) connect to. I have a Time Capsule (2nd generation) in my room (two stories above) that I use to backup my data. I decided to bring my (old) PC to my room and unfortunately it doesn't have a wifi card (Dell Dimension 4700 from 2005 running Windows XP).
Question:
I've tried connecting my Time Capsule (wirelessly connected to my router) to the Dell via ethernet but internet still doesn't seem to be working on my Dell.
I know the Time Capsule can be used as a wifi extender but if I have a wired connection to my Dell, shouldn't this work? If not, should/would I need to enable the wifi extension feature on my Time Capsule (not sure on how to do that)?

I think I follow.. as I also might be a little Confuzzled in the description.
The router in the basement .. Is it apple??
If not, the TC in your room cannot extend its wireless. But just to be clear, you don't have ethernet running basement to 2nd floor room??
In your room at the moment your Macs do not use ethernet to the TC? If that is the case then the TC is not extending wireless.. you are merely joining the TC to the main router.
Find out for sure..
Open airport utility and go to the wireless tab.
This is how it looks when I join my TC to my non-apple router..
This mode has the follow effects..
Ethernet is turned off.
Wireless AP is turned off. The TC is now merely a client.. it cannot wireless bridge to the PC.

Bad WiFi reception

Hey!
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Thank you for all help!!!

got the same problem, if you want you can build a custom antenna (blueprint on the web) that can help. For me i just got a Wireless accesspoint, case solved... last time that i buy a board with integrated "solutions"

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